Today's list /  by Mirena Rhee

I don't subscribe to tribalism

countryism

localism

languageism

DNA-ism

I will speak whatever language I want and I'll be from whatever country I want and I will belong to whatever place I want.

MOMA = Artism on Command by Corporate Demand /  by Mirena Rhee

MOMA = Art on Command by Corporate Demand.

The Cultural Dictatorship of $Digital Corporationship. Now corporations are in charge of telling you what kind of art to make.

MOMA has stooped to a new low, this used to be an institution presenting cutting edge art. Now I see the same things that I see on social media, the AI Art BS. They all train models and make meaningless computer tomography images. It's just photoshopped somebody else's stuff, I can do it in 3 seconds on my Mac applying five Photoshop filters in a row, and then if I throw my Mac out of the window then it's going to be even more radical.

While MOMA ignored cutting edge digital works for the past 20 years. By the way we did these kind of images in video games 20 years ago. I can show you a screenshot of a video game that I made exactly 20 years ago that looks better and more timely than what I see in Norma, aka MOMA.

Art On Command, Your art has to be trained on Dogma.

It reminds me of the communist dictatorship I grew up in behind the Red Curtain.

Now we have the Digital Curtain conveniently obscuring the soulless fragmentation of our society by algorithmically commanding all our interactions.

Ingredients of a Subway Car /  by Mirena Rhee

Ingredients of a Subway Car is a series of installations, performance and simulations inspired by the NYC subway and based on a drawing of the same name. Culminating in a series of videos and a solo show of the same name, 2017.

Traveling /  by Mirena Rhee

I get goosebumps and profound oneness with the universe thinking about the tiny human creations made by the yearnings of our soft fleshes, crawling around Mars carrying the desperate human questions.

We are star stuff, our elements made in the Big Bang and excreted by turbulent stars, we are the Star Stuff. We are not going, but returning to it.

They say all the universe and all in it is just one thing sloshing around a bit, for a little bit. It's not even sloshing that much, it just is. If that is true we are not really traveling to outer space, we are going inwards, into ourselves.

People /  by Mirena Rhee

All friendships and relationships in the US revolve around money. This is a wasted opportunity.

People have been convinced by financial institutions and media conglomerates who naturally own all media that the only viable relationship is the relationship to money. This is the only true life consideration and they perpetuate this nonstop.

So naturally people get alienated from other people because they don't consider peopleship a worthy pursuit. Instead, people pursue relationships with money.

On the other hand, art is supported usually by wealthy people, who are skilled at money. It is great when people use their talents to generate wealth.

Developments like space exploration, which is my biggest private obsession, are championed by massive amounts of money. And practically single-handedly developed by very talented entrepreneurs like Elon Musk.

So my heart is split there. I have no answers and I do not offer any condemnations because that would be untruthful.

The only guarantee is I'm going to keep asking the questions every single day

Truth /  by Mirena Rhee

As an artist, I have always been interested in truth.

If I were to write an artist manifesto today it will contain only one word, truth.

I spent the first half of my career finding truth in pure making. I never really asked any of the questions until I developed all my instruments. When I got my instruments I started on finding out the truth.

Some days I found the truth to be a single word. Other days a word was not even necessary, it was just a thought. And then even a thought was not necessary but an all-encompassing feeling.

Watching Charles The Making of a Monarch 2023 created by the BBC, just for the pictures. LOL /  by Mirena Rhee

Watching this strange person put on a crown and an ermine cloak given by his mom, both clown and parent solemn and serious like a cabalistic clownade.

I fast forward without sound because I don't want to waste my time on evil but I do need to know what evil looks like.

In choosing kings and queens to worship people have to be very careful because it's human inclination to always look up to something. People are afraid to judge kings and queens. It could be that an entire nation could condone world's scale genocide, like we the US exterminated people around the world, because our kings and queens aka government and government Media like the New York times told us that they found weapons of mass destruction so we went to kill on all the peoples for no reason at all.

Media really likes spectacles of power and money and of course because they're a business and always have to make money to pay their employees, Media will never go against the evil of a government no matter what.

That's why I'm not surprised the BBC glorifies an institution that has committed planet scale atrocities. So when their chief media orchestrates, All the people bleet in unison like we all bleet, myself included.

I loudly laughed - I haven’t seen a prop comedy like this since the Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin. It is a fucking firm all right.

“I do enjoy ceremonies,
and I think that the British people do them so very well.”

“I think it’ll be a marvelous day, probably. As long as the weather stays fine.”

I think the BBC wanted to laugh a little too, at the end.

the US is invisible. An invisible word painting /  by Mirena Rhee

The US is invisible

Education is invisible

Wealth is invisible

Think tanks are invisible

Universities are invisible

Foundations are invisible

Smart people are invisible

Churches are invisible

Art is invisible

All the supermarkets are invisible

Media is invisible

Buildings are invisible

Invisible State

Homeless person

Homeless child