Santa Fe contains spiritual and animistic influences as well. I have presented the artists with the possibility of confronting this. In my conceptual framework I talk about our anxiety about space, how we live, where we live, our bodies and how we take care of them, how we dress and protect our identity with fashion, etc. Speed and technology diminish our space on a psychic level. To include the spectator in a work brings one back into oneself as a frame of reference.
Interaction is important.
Cai Guo Qiang did a project of this type in Istanbul. He wanted to connect East and West, and as we did not have a big budget, he did it through a very delicate performance. He threw stones from both shores of the Bosphorus, the European and the Asian, and he filmed that action. Then he installed two TV monitors in the left and right axis of one of our most beautiful venues, the Hagia Eirene Church. Each monitor showed his action on one side of the Bosphorus and the stones crossed virtually from one monitor to the other, symbolically connecting East and West.