Big Bang / by Mirena Rhee

White Room Art Installation, Collaborative Art, Performance and Wearables I created for Chashama Gala and Chashama Rama in November, 2021. White Room is a tongue-in-cheek reference to my obsession with NASA clean rooms, and the white canvas every artist has had to face through the millennia. This is a collaborative, community work.

My vision for a creative civilization spreading into the stars, wormhole art, no borders, no guns, and no coins but art for the betterment of humankind. A 21st-century creative collaboration with people from all walks of life, the white room creating a circle of light with the everyone-creator at its center, a throwback to the ideas of the Renaissance for human-centered and humanistic art.

I created the White Queen wearable as a paintable dress, cape, bag, and shoes, as part of White Room art installation and performance in creative collaboration with Anita Durst, performance by Anita Durst.

I have a favorite movie and in it the title character says that every weapon has a manual. I thought that if my art is to be effective it also needs a manual, so I started incorporating instructions. All walls of the White Room, ponchos, the White Queen bag, everything had instructions as part of the artwork, you literally couldn't miss the purpose.

People in my performance and installation art perform creative acts as opposed to being background actors.

As I was working on the outcome in photographs of the white room I realized I've seen it before, I recognized the concept. It's the Big bang.

I had this realization of the universe as the ultimate art-making machine, and if we are a simulation - the ultimate art protocol.

I've always loved the idea that Buckminster Fuller had of the universe as the ultimate technology, but I see it as the ultimate art. Where neutrinos and all kinds of particles stream, pulsars and supernovas, and galaxies colliding, art created in all spectrums not just the visible, with fields splashing instead of paint.