Cosmism

2015

Melvin Moti

video (colour, sound), duration 28 min., artistbook

tijdsduur / duration 00:29:02

Currently not on display

Acquired in 2016

Inventory number 3364

met steun van / with support of Mondriaan Fonds

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The work 'Cosmism' by Melvin Moti consists of a film and an artist's book. The work places the events of September 11, 2001 within the context of Cosmism. Cosmism was a movement led by Russian thinkers at the end of the nineteenth century who combined occult and esoteric theories with science. One of them, Alexander Chizhevsky, studied the relationship between increased solar activity and major historical events on earth, such as wars, revolutions, and epidemics.

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