Kruno Jošt

“Perma-encyclical-video-letter is a media performance by Krune Jošt, recorded during the summer of 2022 in C4CS. This performance is intended for a wider audience as an encyclical, a term derived from the Greek *enkýklios*, (“to go in a circle,” “circular”) i.e., a document on important matters of faith and/or morals that the Pope sends as a circular letter addressed to bishops but also to all believers in the Catholic Church.

This is a Perma-encyclica, and it speaks about culture – cultivation, upbringing, and education, which naturally come with it. To nurture, encourage, or support, to nourish, is the general premise. Whether it concerns land or plants, art, communication, sound, life…

The Indo-European root of cultivation is “kwel,” which is the same for “cult,” “cycle,” “chakra,” etc. The wheel from Old English “hwēola,” “hweogola,” wheel from Germanic “hwewlaza,” circle: cyclo, cycloid, cyclone, cyclosis; bicycle, encyclical, epicycle from Greek *kuklós*, circle, wheel.”

Complexity, Chaos and Contradiction is a set of screenshots taken from online map depicting parts of agricultural fields in  the USA. Almost like abstract paintings, certain technical feel, with circular geometrical shapes mostly, in the effect of grids, remind of technical drawings, digital tools and visuals representing matrix, digital technical, non human and machine like. CCC creates a base for understanding of how agriculture is shaping the world, reorganizing it to its industrial needs.