I believe that the cultural landscape of the 21st century is being revised under the rigors of the present state of the human condition and by the condition of the Earth's environment.

Worldwide Peace Marker Project is a work of art presented as a "Global Peace Offering" with the intention of sparking a relevant dialog that can revise our expectations regarding the human conception of world peace.

With this global collaborative work of art, an aesthetic model is emerging where peace is viewed as an activity between our species and the world so that our conception of war can be revised to be as not an event between ourselves, but between us humans and anything that threatens the integrity of the planet in its capabilities to sustain life for all of Earth's creatures.

Worldwide Peace Marker Project may, therefore, be thought of as our first global act of peace for us and the planet to create a true gift to the future of our children.

Tiité Baquero

The Worldwide Peace Marker Project (or WPMP for short) is a work of art. You may think of it as a collaborative installation developed by Tiité and authored by  198 other artists who participate as Artists ambassadors representing 198 separate nations.

The basic idea behind the project, is to create "a global peace offering." It is worth noting that, every previous culture and civilization has made offerings of one kind or another but never before as a single species in an effort to reconcile humanity with itself and with the world.

The motivation for the project also stems from the cultural need by human civilization to experience examples of the scale and implications associated with the idea of "globality" in its fullest sense.

The offering itself, is the installation of 198 markers in as many nations to create a permanent model of art at a global scale, but also, the creation of 198 points of peace which establishes not only the foundations of a new notion regarding world peace at a "global" level of consciousness, but, also the start of a new dialog about human global consciousness embracing a new relationship regarding peace with the planet itself.

Why would one consider this effort to be an important contribution?

The short answer is that, if we as a species fail to extend our perception of the world from a local perspective to a global perspective, chances are that we will not understand the implications of our activity on the the world in time to react wisely to the survival challenges involved. WPMP contributes to make that global perception possible.

WPMP is clearly a complex work of art which goes beyond the conventional boundaries of art. It does that, because the project explores a relationship between art and life at a scale that has never been explored before, but that art has to explore now, if art it is to be of any service to civilization. 

Because of its global collaborative scope, WPMP can be seen as an attempt to integrate human creativity into a new dialog about ourselves as a species and by extension about our relationship with the Earth

Structurally as art, WPMP is a global installation informed by a direction in art called Data A art which explores an extended relationship between human art and nature's creativity in a mutual concern for life on earth.

General Objective:

Worldwide Peace Marker Project has four (4) principal objectives.

1. An artistic objective, to create the first truly global work of art in the history of humanity. That milestone expands the human spatial conception of "local" as in the immediate home environment to a global conception of local as in the whole of Earth as the home environment. The survival implications of this upgrade to the future of life on Earth are staggering and worth exploring.

2. A Cultural objective, to contribute a credible example of artists from every nation in the world demonstrating that humanity can work collaboratively and globally as a single species. The exercise may prove invaluable to inform other initiatives addressing some of the critical challenges we face as a species in the 21st century.

3. A Humanitarian objective, to establish a minimal full scale working model of world peace that is presented to the world as "a Global Peace Offering" expressed by the first interactive 198 points of peace ever to take residence in our planet and in our minds.

4. A reconciliatory objective, the project being realized in between the aesthetic of human creativity and the  aesthetic of life in the natural world, provides a way to conceive or visualize that a reconciliation between human nature and Nature outside of the human domain is not only possible but within our grasp.

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The Worldwide Peace marker Project additional notations:

Worldwide Peace Marker Project (WPMP for short) is the title of a work of art that is being presented to humanity and to the physical world as a “Global Peace Offering.”

 As far as art is concerned, WPMP is basically an installation work of art with the distinction that instead of using a gallery or museum space as an extension to the idea or concept that the art is about, WPMP uses the entire planet Earth as the gallery or as the extended space that the work and its conceptual design encompasses.

 Beyond that, WPMP is like most other art throughout time, meaning that it is an aesthetic response to the artist’s perception of the world and his/her sense of importance about the subject matter.

 In the 21^st century however, the artist’s response to his/her own conception of the world and the choice of subject matter has been altered by events and realities that art had never before dealt with, namely the critical state of civilization and the critical state of the remaining patches of the natural world.

 Whatever the response on the part of the arts to those critical questions, the response had to be global, in order to suit the global scale of the problems themselves, and at least inspired on fresh ideas from outside of the box, as it is clear and universally accepted that more of the same just would not do.

 Worldwide Peace Marker Project in that context may be thought of as a proof of concept for a new-outside-of-the-box aesthetic recipe to deal with global issues at a global scale.

 We humans seem to have all of the words we need to describe, argue and even deny the issues, but, have very few cultural tools to tackle the issues in actual practice. The aesthetic concepts that support the WPMP cultural recipe are complex to be sure but one can live through the day without fully understanding the sun while benefiting from the sunlight.

 So it follows that, the ideas or ingredients that power the WPMP aesthetic recipe or more properly the structure that frames WPMP as a work of art, come from Nature and were adapted to work in partnership with Nature. Consequently the recipe reveals a new relationship between human creativity and the creativity in nature’s own survival recipes.

 Obviously this is a large amount of food for thought, however, allow me to share with you one feature that makes the new aesthetic recipe worth your notice. If you were to accept the notion that at this moment in time, humanity is at a point where the best we can do about the critical issues of our time is to agree to disagree, then, let me suggest that the reason may be attributed to information overload, which, is so pervasive that one can say that humanity cannot distinguish anymore the (conscious) noise from the effective signal.

What the application of the aesthetic recipe that powers WPMP does, is to separate the noise from the signal or more accurately in our case to separate the past from the now; so that we can react more clearly to the effect of what is happening and to the content of the new ideas moving forward into the future.

That is the miracle of a recipe that allows for us to take on an old problem and resolve it as we look at it through a new lens.

Tiité ~ March 2010

Note: There is further reading available about Data A art

There is also a companion book to this project here and there is a booklet guide to the project here

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