ENDMART - I N S T A N T   M A T E R I A L I S M S

Collaborative project between Heyon Han and Leon Leube 

Science fiction writer William Gibson has said many times that; The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed, which brings our attention to the present moment, implying that the future is not some unreachable point in the distance. The focus here really isn’t on the future at all, it is on the "already here". What is given importance is not to attempt to understand what the future is or will be like. In fact, imagining the future is like throwing ourselves into the distance that doesn't have the terrain to stand on yet. 
We're currently living in this uneven terrain, having difficulty to explain ourselves in time. The conflict in the present moment can be seen as a crashing of two temporalities; it can be an entity affecting you from afar, not having happened yet or as something that already happened in the past, in which case its effects are still being encountered and repeated. Being aware of how these two temporalities interact and cross over with each other can affect the present to give the necessary tools to pull the future closer to you. 

It's important to bring our attention to what is constantly represented from these immersions, and further examination is needed towards their relationships to the contemporary surrounding. Immediacy can bring this moment of breaking immersion with no delay. The question is then how to render it, how to make it visible and make this unevenness laid bare. To bring the awareness of how uneven the current state of things can be, in other words, to make the present moment unavoidable.

Instant materialisms are methodologies where the awareness that the present moment is uneven is engaged with through the material in our hands. Immediacy, and the conflicted and confusing temporalities that are embedded within in it, materialise in multiple forms and into physical existence. This desire to give it presence then becomes a sort of self educating process that one can engage with and make work out of, but we also believe that it can be applied to the wide range of reality to alter your state of presence and acknowledge possible new revelations. 

Superimposing can be a way to understand that the present moment is where two states meet, these two different immersions of not yet and no longer. Right now is only place to encounter and review the crossover of both. Simply by putting them on top of each other could give a chance to review immersions in their current status .

Modisumer is a combination of the words modify and consumer. It refers to a deformed relationship between manufacturer and consumer where the roles are for a time flipped, reverting back quickly enough so that you are being sold what you thought you had personally modified. Yet to modisume is ultimately to against the default relationships or automatic responses one can have to specific objects or material. It comes down to the question of how you engage with this unevenness, refusing to give up on the future lends itself to a very instant materialisms sort of vitality. 

A placeholder must confront and come to terms with its lack of contents. Although not present, it does exercise its influence as if it were some uncertain mass casting the very air that surrounds us. As a physical form it could be likened to a cast of the absence in current space, in order to have right now the presence of the thing that does not as of yet exist. There is a high probability it can and will be replaced at any stage. This can lead to an attitude of  being open to the coming changes. 

Instant materialisms are open for 24 hours, believing in whatever you do your attitude will be revealed in the form you're making, and you try to make it every day. The very last convenience store, the final one that is constantly being replaced.