The Anthelion Projects are an evolution of the Corona Lectures in a collaborative direction.
(Learn more about the origin of the Corona Lectures here or about the move from the Corona Lectures into the Anthelion Projects here).
Though Anthelion Projects have thus far had a video component, this is not essential to all future projects. The two crucial aspects are 1) the conversation between artists or artworks and 2) the construction of a Machine that will be granted a significant degree of control over the outcome of the project.
There is more about the Machines and the principles behind their construction here, but some of the most important features include moving the focus from the refined or perfected final product to art’s raw materials and the method of their processing, introducing chance operations into the process, and embracing the possibility of failure.
Within these minimal parameters, there is a great degree of freedom for collaboration (which are explored in a bit more depth here):
An artist working in any discipline might want to submit their own practice to the rigors of the Machine and work with Anthelion Projects to build a Machine that will construct art or art-adjacent content.
An artist might want to build or have built a Machine that creates the blueprint for a piece of art that they might execute (paint, dance, perform, write, etc.).
An artist might be interested in seeing how Anthelion Projects employs a Machine to process an encounter with art they’ve already made or are in the process of making.
An artist might be intrigued by the idea of the Machine and—without knowing in what way they might employ it—be interested in discussing the possibilities with Anthelion Projects.
Anthelion Projects emphasizes process over product, and values the conversation about art above all. If you are interested in having that conversation, Anthelion Projects is eager to hear from you. You can contact Anthelion Projects via the contact form here or by emailing AnthelionProjects@gmail.com.
Under certain rare atmospheric conditions, a luminous spot or halo will appear at a point on the horizon opposite to the sun.
This is an anthelion.
The Anthelion Projects are video responses to a variety of meaningful encounters, whether artistic, oneiric, textual, existential, or phenomenological.
Before a video is made, a content-producing Machine is constructed that will use aleatoric or chance operations to process the raw materials that form the basis of the encounter as well as the Operator’s response to the encounter. The end result of the Machine’s operation will be a sometimes essential and other times tangential consideration of the initial encounter and, under certain rare conditions, point beyond to something new.