Quo vadis Universe?

UDAIYAN, Aditi and Urania's Gardens

In these times of cosmic struggle we harken back to that ancient enigma: The birth of the celestial bodies by the boundless mothergoddess: Aditi. This time however, the celestial Creatrix has beengiven an insight into our reality and bloodstained paradigm.
All the planets are aligned with the cosmic Om, from all aspects andtraditions. Aditi has become the tree bearing fruit, showing us thefragile stability in our precarious existence. Staring eyes implore usto act - yet we are helpless and have surrendered to the inevitabilityof it all.
Pain, desecration and the futility of the celestial waltz is beingplayed out in our minds. She is waiting for us to ask her for thefirst dance, but we are hesitant still. Beyond Aditi lies "TheNothing" that once tried to claim us but cannot do so again.
The green garden of Ourania, the Muse of Astronomy has beentransformed in my mind to become a Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Symbols,links, directions and hints appear before our eyes to reveal a riddleand a paradox. We know where we need to go and what we need tobecome. We think we are ready but are we true to the truth. Will ourfidelity hold sway and will our intentions remain sound. Will webecome the rock that the universe binds to?
There was once a thought - a moment so silent where we could heareveryone's heartbeat as a whisper through time. Then the calamitousseizure took hold and all beings separated to form their own beats toa different drum. I cast myself back through time, to exist where alltime became one and all moment coincided. Aditi saw me too as avisitor through her reality and offered me a gift. The prophesy ofhope eclipsing the finality.

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Threshold performance /Global installation by Polyxene Kasda in 1990

From the bottom of a lake to the planetary dimension

In 1990 the waters of the Lake of Mornos in Greece, not far from Delphi, receded for a very short period of time, because of the draught, revealing a sunken hellenistic city and a village with a fantasmic stone church all covered with oysters. Photo documentation by Stefanos Samios.

It was a perfect metaphor for our shifting perception in the other side of the mirror at that time, formulating theories on chaos, dispersive structures, fractals in the catoptric room of the world, immersed in another time duration.This was the scenery for my threshold performance Persephone on the rising foundation-stone altar, leaving behind my first earth installation Chrysalis1.

Digging out of the mud of the altar Something Essential Missing 

Chrysalis installation of mud biodegradable sphinxes setting once more the Enigma of the Sphinx redefining human beingness.

A chrysalis on the hellenistic mosaics in the bottom of the Lake of Mornos 1990

its powerful momentum crashed in another installation in the precipice Chaos Aghias Triados on the way to Lavrion, Greece 1990.

Down in the waters of the Styx, Peloponnese, Kalavrita

and was extended in a polycentric documented risky installation in 13 special sites all over Greece by interactor Alex Tsantoulas.

Deep inside the 1,200 m2 cave of Hermes, at an altitude of 1.750 m on the slope of mountain Zeria Ano Korithia Peloponese

In the Museum of Modern Art of Joensu Finland in the PAND conference Meeting of the Worlds 1990, the project was launched as a persona-effacing / co-creative geocaching installation, which was realized in 300 sites in 27 countries all over the globe through the creative participation of hundreds of interactors.

The colossal earth installation soon melted in the rain releasing the dynamic relational web diagram of its interactοrs' timelapse arrows, as early as 1990 forecasting the advent of the webs.

Its repercussions lasted for the next 25years, under the heading Project Myth/Network 1990-2015 a stretched- now experiment on our spatiotemporal shift in the deep interface of liturgical timelessness and empirical time.

The polycentric global interactors' simultaneous documentation in the State University of Cleveland Ohio, the Municipal Center of Athens.... was augmented by a UCT world -on- the- make libation happening 15-2-1991 in the 27 countries, simultaneously.

"Myth/Network is a state which is configured as much by the artist as by the participants in her growing interactive web. It is an open system that evolves on many ontological levels.. the old system of art centered on the artist-emitter and the passive audience is transformed into a living system-network of the international creative society”.

Elzbieta Koscielak, ΑICA art critic, “Myth/Network: The vision of an open system in Art”, The Network, Govostis, Athens 3/2/1991.

http://Polyxene Kasda.blogspot.com

The village and the hellenistic city Kalion were reimmersed in 1990 under the waters of the Lake of Mornos, where they still are.

The Observatory of Corfu (1924-1940), Astronomical Society of Corfu, Corfu, 2003, a book by George Zoumpos

The existence and activity of an observatory in Corfu from1924 until 1940, as well as that of an Astronomical Society (the first in Greece) since 1927, is only known to a few people (even among Corfiots).
His existence came forth in April 1989, when complaints were lodged about the demolition of the remaining dome of the installations. The demolition was unfortunately not avoided, but a long search began, in order to gather information, so that the history of this very important scientific movement of the Middlewar could be recorded.



The search lasted thirteen year, as no worthwhile information with respect to the activity of the “Astronomical Society” was to be found. Its library and astronomical instruments were lost, and the main source of information is the magazine Urania and newspapers issues of the time.




It is difficult to estimate the work and offer of the “Astronomical Society of Greece” as, beating the difficulties in communication, that seem enormous even for today’s technical achievements, it managed to create an extended network of members and correspondants in Greece, as well as abroad. Even though it was but an amateur society, it gathered around it a great part of the Greek scientific community, and ensured the collaboration of many foreign scientists.


Felix Lamech


Trough the pages of Urania much knowledge concerning astronomical phenomena was brought down to the public, and many scientific problems of the time were presented.
A series of photos which are most likely to have come from the Reading Room and Library of the “Astronomical Society” are kept in the Public Library of Corfu, and copies of the photos in question were for the present edition
The Observatory of Corfu (1924-1940), Astronomical Society of Corfu, Corfu, 2003

George Zoumpos,
ISBN 960-87864-0-1

George Zoumpos

George Zoumpos graduated from the 2nd Junior High School of Corfu in 1976, and from the Mathematics Faculty of the Patras University in 1980. Today he teaches at the 1st High School of Corfu. He wrote his Ph.D. between the years 2000 and 2004, at the Faculty of History of the Ionian University. Its topic is “Mathematics in the Ionian Academy (1824-1864)”. While writing, he was supervised by Professor Nicos Karapidakis. He has written the following books: “The fortification of Corfu until the 18th century and the siege of 1716”, (Enimerosi ed., 1996) and “The Observatory of Corfu (1924-1940)”, (Astronomical Society of Corfu, 2003). He has participated in conventions presenting papers regarding the History of Sciences, the culture of the Ionian islands and the Observatory of Corfu. He is currently writing a study about the history and course of the philharmonic society “Mantzaros”, the short-lived philharmonic society “Samaras”, and the “Robotis School”.

Wondering about the mysteries in the sky starts in the craddle ...

Posted by Pierre Chirouze

Une pensée, aimablement fournie par Guillaume Pajeot de K-droz, France.

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L’espace et le cycle de la vie
Les astrophysiciens nous content cette belle histoire.
Nous sommes tous fils et filles des étoiles. Chaque atome de notre corps est né dans le cœur d’une étoile. Cette étoile, en mourant, a répandu ces atomes dans le vide interstellaire.
Le soleil, notre étoile, irrigue continuellement la Terre de ces rayons qui alimentent tous les grands cycles et assurent le maintien de la vie biologique.
Un jour le soleil à son tour mourra et dans son agonie enflera jusqu’à engloutir la Terre, reprenant une part de cette matière laissée jadis par une de ses aïeules.

Space and the cycle of life
Astrophysicists tell us this beautiful story.
We all are sons and daughters of stars. Each atom in our body was born in a star’s heart. While dying, this star spread atoms into the interstellar void.
The sun -our star- continuously waters the Earth and its rays power all the great cycles that sustain biological life.
One day the sun will die also and in its agony will inflate up to swallowing the Earth, taking back a bit of this matter left by one of its ancestors.

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Pierre Chirouze
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