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mundane paradise

 

mundane paradise is a binaural installation about the ephemeral epiphany we experience between the end of our sleep and our awakening.

As a child, I spent a lot of time trying not to sleep. I thought I might die during my sleep. But death wasn't my primal fear. I didn't want to finish inside any paradox of my mother's Bible. At the time, insomnia and vandalism became my muses, they helped me fight the inevitable.

The marketing of Christianity has since vanished from my existence, and nights have transformed into a stream of consciousness where I delve, sink and rise to create. I started to appreciate the unpredictable nature of the awakening. Will I be dead or not? The question “Will I sleep alone or not?” took over...
Sharing sleep and awakening is the most important part of my intimacy. It is when I'm defenceless, when I am myself, before hearing my voice, seeing my skin colour and feeling my body. It is this moment before time and space, when and how.

mundane paradise is a live monologue before reason, necessity, and ego possess my mind and body.
mundane paradise is an ephemeral epiphany before who, what and where, before me, before the artist, before New York.

  • binaural recording: 19min 27 sEC, wavE

  • To be experienced with headphones

  • Visual Akano Eternii