Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

As if I do not have enough to do (or maybe I just like killing myself), I have just set up Korakora -Projects (http://proyekto.korakora.org/ or http://www.korakora.org/projects/)  as a site for “doing things.” While all the musings and theory are distilled in this blog and the main Korakora site, I have decided to set-up a separate site for actual projects.

I think that one motivation for Korakora -Projects is a physical one - that is, the diffuclty that I experience in traveling around the city. Commuting is literally death by internal combustion: air pollution has reached dangerous levels and my health is not getting any better. Traveling by air-conditioned taxi is too expensive so better to travel by jeepney with a gasmask (although both modes of transport don’t do any good to the air pollution problem as well).

Apart from this, traffic has also become rather unbearable. Even the metro trains are packed almost every hour. The entire experience of public transport has really taken its toll on my physical mobility.

Another motivation for Korakora -Projects is perhaps the question of the fulltime artist’s ability to sustain his/herself physically, mentally, emotionally. As Internet access gets cheaper and cheaper, perhaps putting work or service on-line and getting paid for it would no longer demand too much overhead. BUT of course, I don’t really know this. Korakora -Projects is largely an experiment - as with all that I do - and an honest desire to support the artist’s body and body of work.

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