Interview with Yman Juran

Name in sl:
Yman Juran.

Age in sl:
Born in 2/27/2007.

Where are you from in rl?
Denmark.

What bring you to sl?
A newspaper article.

What turn you to expose in sl?
The potential possibility to be creative.

How you discribe your art?
Enlightenment with the use of Light, Life and Love.

What kind of “materials” do you use in your preformance?
All and any  worth working with.  poofers, emitters, sparks, strobelight, any particle of good quality, the best scripted animations, the best equipment there is to get or create.

Do you insert in some kind of Artistic movement?
No I work within my  ChangHigh Trinity Sisterhood, am  the initiator, I create movements but dont join them,  I start things and let them fly,  I dont join or control anyone but me.

What were your steps in sl? Place that you expose, do you have a gallery? (if so where is located)
Steps started from nothing last year until today where I am one of the best, I or we ,my troup perform everywhere where people want us or where we get a gig, or collect Linden to help others, solidarity, yes I have a texture shop and some other shops in Jerusalem and Jones  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Holy%City/48/21/22 and http://slurl.com/secondlife/jones%20Beach/165/229/21.

Are you an real life artist or just in SL?
I’m in rl too, and has been for 30 years almost.

Do you represent you real life performences in SL?
Kind of…  yes but since the potentials in SL is quite different than what I can do in RL ..there is certain larger variations and other styles involved. The experimentation in SL is  more open and gives me  possibilities of be supercreative.

Do you have any kind of formation in artistic field in real life or you just performance because you like?
I teach in schools and circus clubs in Denmark, and on marked and many places where I am.

What your path as an artist in real life?
My path in RL is…  as a child of The Most high, I dont associate in art groups or art org. Am  independent and autodictactive and function as a solitary messenger. I dont believe in unions of mortal  kinds.

How do you face the art in SL?
My trust and trueness is within not without. I face the art of SL with my sword of fire…I do my utmost to heighten and enlighten it. What I think of art in SL is relative… there is superart here but also lot of shitty cheap crap.

Do you think that SL artists face difficulties? If so, what kind?
We, the artist do face tribulations and  limitation of computational power… the more advanced we get the more difficulties do we confront… Mr. ControLag and Miss Norezz and their adoptive child Crashface is always present and you reach a point where your popularity can kill You, because so many people want to see your shows that the  computational power gets so low that the shows get frozen almost.

What do you think that should be change in  this world of art in SL? What kind of proposals woud you do?
So if y , like me, use  Fxs and  scripted  stuff y need to be very selective and handle certain  scripted  actions from the audience.. and find the right sim to perform on..this one here is a HAVOC 4.. the best there is BUT if LINDEN would provide us with the right stageet up…. as of sims and simulators… UUUU what kind of shows we could then do…!!!

Do you have plans for your future art in SL?
I hope Linden got some plans for the future of their socialization of us all and what we do.  As of my art in the future, I intent to move myself to the highest level and see what happen..  I am working on various new creative inventions and have about 4 new secret tools under construction. My future in SL depends on how SL evolutionize itself and how Linden go about the simulator expansions.

Do you have a blog, e-mail or page? Or do you what to leave a contact so the people can find you?
They can IM me in SL or write to ChangHigh@email.dk

Do you think this interview will help another artists? Or what can bring to them?
Perhaps but it may perhaps also turn some of them off from SL   who knows… sure it may help in understanding the probelms here… But again it may also send a signal, …like  why go in ??? If I cant be more than the mediocrity and if all the ones already in there have these simulator probelms and rezz and lag confrontations.
Please leave a phrase to the public that will read your interview:
“A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.”

Some of the artist performances:

Firewings

Trapeze

Celestial Artisans

~ by Caty Matova on February 21, 2008.