You art the Space, You art the Now
Out of the Blue_NETWORK series
HERE&NOW unfolds as a dual path: an operA(c)tion on social media and a Land Art sound installation. Two trees in dialogue, joined by a monumental bracket in wood or dark metal that frames the path: a portal that does not close but flings wide open. Flow and forest are the tracks in which life happens, but the forest of HERE&NOW is not a geographical sanctuary: it is any forest. Two trees supporting the bracket become the prototype of every possible encounter; the sound installation invites one to linger until the boundary between the Self and the outside vanishes, vibrating in unison.
The pair of curly brackets appearing in the reels does not trace a border: it opens a context of legitimation.
{ HERE YOU CAN… }
Within this bracket, YOU does not indicate an isolated individual, but the consciousness that makes present. The bracket opens a space-time threshold: it brings us back to more life, more play, more poetry — with the same impetus that makes a flower bloom even in a minefield.
The statement guiding the project — You art the Space. You art the Now. — reclaims the archaic conjugation of the verb to be (thou art / you are) and embraces its ambivalence: to be and to create. To be is to create. YOU is consciousness itself: that Space and that Now in which Life manifests as a miracle (from the Lat. miracŭlum), a “wonderful thing” that exceeds the normal predictability of happening, beyond clichés and borders.
From this angle, HERE&NOW questions the places of ritual: where does the sacred occur and what makes it so? The bracket responds with a poetic and visual gesture that becomes a rite. But why deterritorialize the sacred? History answers: Jerusalem, Ayodhya, the Holy Sepulchre, Mecca, the Dome of the Rock — places that should elevate the spirit but, once territorialized, generate conflict. Transformed into symbols of exclusive belonging, they betray their function. What is unsettling is that neither faith nor love has been enough to defuse the conversion of the sacred into possession and hostility.
The project dialogues with Byung-Chul Han in his diagnosis of the crisis of rituals and attempts to inaugurate a minimal rite precisely within social media: a place of consumption that becomes a space of pause. The rite is fulfilled in the action: opening the bracket in the comments, completing it with a word, truly living it, and letting it circulate. Writing { } is not digital; it is an act of resistance to the flow of scrolling.
Opening a bracket means carving out, HERE&NOW, a portion of Space and Now for oneself and for everyone: we are all YOU — children of the stars and of migrations — and this bracket is an active portal of consciousness and presence.
{ HERE YOU CAN… PRAY, PLAY, REST, FORGIVE… }
Hence the thesis: there are no sacred places “in themselves,” but acts of presence that make sacred what they encounter.
The bracket thus becomes a prêt-à-porter temple: a portable perimeter that legitimises the sacred wherever a present consciousness is found. It is not a symbol to look at, but a gateway to activate: in the forest as on the screen, the bracket is the signature of those who are Presence. From this practice, a new community can be born: based not on the possession of soil, but on the recognition of the sacredness of every YOU.
Temp(i)o of listening. Temp(i)o of welcoming. Temp(i)o of gathering. (Note: In Italian, the word Temp(i)o is a poetic fusion of Tempo—Time—and Tempio—Temple. It suggests that the only true sanctuary is the present moment, a “time-temple” built through presence.)
HERE&NOW does not propose a stateless utopia, but a spirituality without structures or superstructures: a threshold beyond which the sacred is imagined beyond architecture and geographical borders, to be lived in consciousness — as an inner temple. Not against temples, but against their use as a certification of the interior; not against tradition, but against its reduction to spectacular belonging; not against the rite, but against its transformation into social proof.
HERE&NOW is born, inspired by the Platonic Ideas of the Good, the Beautiful, and the Just, accessible to all and not confined to a perimeter. It proposes to deterritorialize the sacred, bringing it “home,” into the consciousness of the human being: that temple (Space) which is also time (Now).
There are no happy homes, only people happy to be home.
There are no happy sanctuaries, only listening minds;
There are no holy reasons, only hearts at peace.