On the southwest wall of the Eye there is a Magic Square of order 3 with constant 15, with its 9 squares of 0,35m each embedded in a flat video-screen of 1,05 x 1,05m.
A magic square is a square divided into smaller squares each containing a number consisting of the distinct positive integers 1, 2, 3 …, arranged in such a way that the figures in each vertical, horizontal, and diagonal row add up to the same value.
From the Cave, the performance of the Cave 3.0 opera is live streamed separately in each of the 9 screens by an algorithm, starting from the number 9 position in a counter clockwise regression towards number 1 (9 > 8> 7> … > 1), with a delay of 1” between each step, creating a retrograde vortex unwinding the action and resetting to zero the historic time in the screened narrative spacetime continuum.
The counterclockwise motion is a common feature of any kinetic ritual, as, for instance, the widdershins circumambulation of sites endowed with power, or the dervish and shamanic circular dances, or the bringing out the Sefer Torah from the ark, or other cosmogonic rituals attempting to unwind the linear time in order to access the sacred atemporal dimension often depicted as circular but more fittingly rendered as an upward multidimensional spiralling breath.
In the magic square above, arrows and numbers in red signal the flow of the images of the streamed sequence from the black 9 integers to the 1 position. The sum of both black and red figures in each vertical, horizontal, and diagonal row add up to 15.
