Just at this moment, when the world seems to have come to a halt, when airports, shopping malls, museums and all other places have become non-places (here we’re referring to Robert Smithson) and when life no longer plays out in public spaces, virtual reality has manifested itself as the dominant and only reality we live in. But the problem is, however, a false media simulacrum of reality that is, to the non-critical public, offered as the only true and self-explanatory one. Aesthetics for nobody is a project started with a goal to deaestheticize and clean the hyperaestheticized space of mass media – the permanent circulation of useless and false information (using the same method of hyperaestheticization: through multiple social media and communication channels, read: by spamming and subverting) of the hegemony of the media’s control or, rather, to create a different kinds of conceptual content whose common premise is technospirituality – a postmodern concept which has a new artivistic dimension in contemporary art.
The public is expected to reflexively consume the content which means that, despite the idea of a constant flow of information and content, they’ll briefly (preferably for longer) dedicate themselves to the stylised and aestheticized depiction of the mandala and the spiritual sound therefore connecting with the art piece on a certain level (uniting with piece/peace). The conceptual frameworks realized according to words play the role of re-examining the spiritual space, affect or effect, the aesthetic of the mandala and the possibility of language or speaking about it, and they also represent the propositions and intentions of our work. The text is incorporated into the mandala itself as well as into the logic of algorithms written using pseudocodes that should simulate the way virtual reality is constructed and how these algorithms construct our participation and reality on the Internet.
The idea of the work is that instead of a lot of unnecessary, unsubstantiated information from the internet, the public consumes the content of this post-conceptual art that should direct a person towards themselves, their own aesthetics and opinion, but which isn’t there just for that purpose but is also a critical opinion of these artists towards all negative aspects of the mass media, politicization and hyperaestheticisation of life and reality as such.
Marko Vesić & Aleksandar Lazar
