“In the garden of Eden, there were two important trees, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. While it is commonly understood that Adam and Eve were expelled from the terrestrial paradise because they ate from the Tree of Knowledge, the Fall of Man was ultimately a result of the demiurge’s fear that they would also eat from the Tree of Life, which would have given them eternal life… Now, eternity is not a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. It is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it, and if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere else.” – Hanock Campbell
Featuring Hypcorite and Eric Vaughn, ‘Genesis: The Creative Principle’ is a post-disciplinary performance-lecture about the psychological and cultural function of mythology, old and new. It forms part of a larger series of participatory interventions entitled ‘Hypocrisy Sessions’, which seeks to bring to life the core philosophical principles underpinning ‘Changing same: An ontology of spirit’, an ongoing research engagement concerned with the a nature of reality.
This session is brought to you as part of the public programme accompanying ‘A Sacred Story at the Tree of Life’, an exhibition at ifa Gallery Berlin curated by Memory Biwa, Robert Machiri, Jumoke Adeyanju and Nikola Hartl. The exhibition comes together as an ephemeral installation centred on the signification of landscape and space through processes of memory and ceremony. The shade of the baobab, the sacred tree, is the gathering place for a communion with poets, rioters, storytellers, vocalists, players of instruments and DJs.