We are not going to be afraid. Reality is dangerous, and we are here to ride reality with a virgin passion and a total faith in the persistence of humanity.

 

Contemporary performance, like science, has stood the test of time better than arts, and the persistence of their statuses as "other than art" is a proof of that.

 

Every civilization has developed its own peculiar art forms. Art is the human manifested attempt to speculate the Unknown. Art always refer to the Great Mistery, the Sublime Horror of Being. Exactly like Science, except that Science aims to unveil the Secret, Art is not.

 

The art world and the media are constantly explaining to us that humanity is fading overstressed by this mission. Technology - born from Science and instrument of Art , so they say, is erasing the human. Instant and ubiquitous reproduction of moving images, so they say, is erasing the human. Multitasking and liquid relationships, so they say, are erasing the human.

 

We believe that the Human is erasing the art world and the media.

 

We are artists, performers, the audience, curators, writers and publishers. We are surviving, and we run the world. We are the subjects and the creators of the technological sublime, and our art speaks of conflicts, popular culture, heroic acts, accelerations of sensorial stimuli and a newly discovered dignity of being humans with a body.

 

Effimera welcomes artists that embrace reality

 

- using body-related technologic artifacts to create subjects for the post-prometheus era

- using randomly accessed experiences to generate movements

- using algorithms to generate textures and environments

- using the interconnection though technology to enhance reality not to run from it

- understanding that our bodies are still evolving,  as the meaning of evolution is evolving itself

- using masks to display real stories

 

Effimera lives in the present, eternal and immediate.

The Persistence of humanity Manifesto.