VIPERSCIENCE

The transmission of cultural consciousness through the geometry of Maya time serpents

Institute of Contemporary Arts London 1996

Work inspired by the radical anthropologist 
Jose Diaz Bolio author of La Serpiente Emplumada.

Diaz Bolio's ideas inspired the ultra-sonic, interactive work Viperscience at 
 the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in which the rattlesnake 
 operated as an ancient form of living biological software and a bridge between 
 time, mind and matter. 

His rattlesnake theory  described in 1945 as "monstrous" and 
a "treason to history"  is now gaining academic acceptance.

Bolios unique work is methodic synthesis of poetry, science 
and bio-mathematics and offers proof that the rattlesnake contains
 a projection of Mayan cosmology.

The  work is based on personal meetings with Bolio and on-site research in Uxmal in
 Yucatan Mexico a Mayan ceremonial site where important religious rituals associated
 the feathered serpent were enacted.