01
O R I G I N
How the ORIGIN started:
The World Peace Project started in response to a growing concern over art and culture as they converge into a single sphere where value is determined by the marketplace. As a clandestine engagement it uses cultural, corporate, and religious settings to reposit the store of what is being lost: Silence.
Premise
A lifecycle pattern is a course of events that brings something into existence. Typical steps include inception, expansion, maturity, decline and closure. A new cycle begins after a period of inactivity. Of interest here is the inactive phase, where new patterns are seemingly shaped from nothing.
Other Voices
"Over the last decade or so, the art world in peril has seemed to lose the ability to adapt. Or, rather, it now seems able to adapt only in one way, no matter the circumstances: by growing larger and busier. Expansion and more were the answers to everything."
Jerry Saltz, Art Critic
- The Last Days of the Art World … and Perhaps the First Days of a New One
Vulture
Practice
It began in 1973 at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Ave in NYC. It was simple at first – just me sitting quietly, eyes closed. It wasn’t long before I started moving around Manhattan. Meditating at the United Nations, and MOMA, the Whitney Museum, and St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery… the Alice in Wonderland Statue in Central Park. I meditated at Grand Central Station, the Bleecker Street Cinema… and galleries whose names I no longer remember.
Note
Unless otherwise indicated (*), the institutions listed herein were unaware of my/our presence, and neither granted their
permission to perform, nor otherwise supported the World Peace Project.
