Effimera Fondazione

the sublime is an aesthetic concept of the exalted, of beauty that is grand and dangerous. through xvii and xviii century of the western cultural tradition, the sublime became associated with nature. in the xx century, the technological sublime evolved from the natural sublime: our sense of awe and terror had transferred to factories, war machines and their unknownable evolutions driven by computers and humans sligthly merging into one being. in the xxi century we are totally technology driven, in accelerating evolution. new kind of visions, new perspectives and new expressions arise from the ephemeral ecology of the tech sublime. we are not going to be afraid. reality is dangerous, and we are here to ride reality with a virgin passion and a total faith in the persistence of humanity. contemporary performance, like science, has stood the test of time better than arts, and the persistence of their statuses as "other than art" is a proof of that. art always refers to the great mistery, t