Text by Poly Kasda
Treasure hunt game and artistic symposium
Title: “The Kingdom is the Child's”Heraclitus -subtitle: Baby in the moon
Theme: the foundation of a meta- space in primordial space
Location: Samothrace island
Description: immersive initiatory itinerary in the enigmatic, occult, windswept, mountainous, covered with forestland, mythical landscape of Samothrace.
With the help of a special map, the participants, install themselves in the complex of signs of the inscrutable mystery of this island known to belong to the gods. They are challenged to find the PAI Lapis Exilis (Xene's sculpted stone from the EPOFE PAI 2010 collection) which is hidden somewhere in the flanks of the Moon, as Mt Saos is called.
In this process, the participants; in spiritual resonance with this granite landscape steeped in mythological antinomies, climb on mountains, bath in waterfalls, discover trans-temporal symbols and maddening fragments of the Kabeirian mosaic (the kabeirians are said to be ancestors of the human race), solve self-referential riddles, search in inaccessible, by road, coastlines, the treasure. As a local legend says: the treasure belongs to the one designated by the Saint, but, if it is revealed, it turns into coal.
Participants, attracted in the magnetic SEM fields(Something Essential Missing) are encouraged to perceive the ancient symbols as present activators of their brain /psychic functions, revealing the trans-temporal initiatory importance of mythical sites and symbols, mostly, lying outside mainstream tourism.
They are challenged to make sketches, to write texts with their thoughts, interactive details, suggestions and discoveries in an extensive dialogue with this landscape, which cryptic dimension is connected to the abysmal substrata of our soul.
A symposium will be held, in which each participant will present his work and his views, with the prospect to collect, to articulate without rationalizing this innovatory multifaceted research and experience in primordial meta-space.....
Some fragments of reference for Polyxene Kasda’s Maps of the Hidden Treasure 1994-1996 “A bold initiative to restore the primary sense of existence, to bind immanence to transcendence, to rehabilitate, not only on the cultural level but also on the ontological, the great myth through which all the elements of the world up surged”. Vasile Avram, Transilvania’96, Cultura Nationala, Rumania.
" Her extraordinary point of departure is that mythology must come out of the pages to become action of the soul in the very sites where the myth was born; to extract it and reconstitute it as a present, through a series of intuitions metaphors, symbolic interactions that rediscover language as active and creative. The world and nature become again, in this way, living books of cosmic knowledge, in which mythology is still operating...We can define her work as ‘landscape semiotics’; a mode of reading a landscape through all the correlations; to decipher its message, through which she proposes it as a point of intersection of lost and occult energies. Her aim is not to revive a pre-historical knowledge, but to serve as a trajectory of the soul. Mythology is for Poly Kasda and this is her major originality, a process of initiation, which is possible even today with the modern sensitivity like old times. As she says: “the earth reveals its spiritual reality; our consciousness is laid out on the living fabric of the soil’.
The maps of her itineraries are based on a series of subliminal, symbolic coordinates and synchronistic events that elevate in front of our eyes the matrix of meaning that sustains the world...
To seek to enter in this dimension seems at first sight difficult, but, once you accept to make the effort, doors will open to unsuspected dimensions".
Donatella Bisutti, La Clessidra 1994
Chief editor of Poesia e Spiritualita review, Milan
Rivistapoesiaespiritualita.blogspot.com
"Her “Maps of the hidden treasure” activate in the participants, a new personal consciousness...
This is the revelation of a profound meaning, that there is a hidden reality more real than the apparent; something that exists other than what we observe and see directly.
From this study of the landscape, amplified by observation, scientific research, linguistic analogies and involvement with the local residents, a precious project was born; a “doc” important for the future generations and for all people that would like a form of tourism based on ecology and culture"
.Dores Sacquegna
Director of PrimoPiano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy.http://www.primopianogallery.com/
" Her extraordinary point of departure is that mythology must come out of the pages to become action of the soul in the very sites where the myth was born; to extract it and reconstitute it as a present, through a series of intuitions metaphors, symbolic interactions that rediscover language as active and creative. The world and nature become again, in this way, living books of cosmic knowledge, in which mythology is still operating...We can define her work as ‘landscape semiotics’; a mode of reading a landscape through all the correlations; to decipher its message, through which she proposes it as a point of intersection of lost and occult energies. Her aim is not to revive a pre-historical knowledge, but to serve as a trajectory of the soul. Mythology is for Poly Kasda and this is her major originality, a process of initiation, which is possible even today with the modern sensitivity like old times. As she says: “the earth reveals its spiritual reality; our consciousness is laid out on the living fabric of the soil’.
The maps of her itineraries are based on a series of subliminal, symbolic coordinates and synchronistic events that elevate in front of our eyes the matrix of meaning that sustains the world...
To seek to enter in this dimension seems at first sight difficult, but, once you accept to make the effort, doors will open to unsuspected dimensions".
Donatella Bisutti, La Clessidra 1994
Chief editor of Poesia e Spiritualita review, Milan
Rivistapoesiaespiritualita.blogspot.com
"Her “Maps of the hidden treasure” activate in the participants, a new personal consciousness...
This is the revelation of a profound meaning, that there is a hidden reality more real than the apparent; something that exists other than what we observe and see directly.
From this study of the landscape, amplified by observation, scientific research, linguistic analogies and involvement with the local residents, a precious project was born; a “doc” important for the future generations and for all people that would like a form of tourism based on ecology and culture"
.Dores Sacquegna
Director of PrimoPiano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy.http://www.primopianogallery.com/
