Jack Ma is about to land at John Paul II airport. Overlooking the city, he talks about plants and animals, farmers and citizens, sustainable production and social markets—he thinks like a gardener. Jack is fascinated by the idea of positioning points of attraction that forecast waves of potential—he talks like a quantum physicist. Ma’s budget is extraordinary, and his global ideas make local power turn. Jack Ma is about to show how a region in Europe may engender a global identity worth talking about.
I show a movie about the rituals of forgetting. I parade the fantasies, desires and ambitions that Ma will introduce in Krakow to animate a new social market. I show the challenges of thinking cytiness not in infrastructural or consumption terms while burning two bn euros a year. I present with existing scenographies, props, actors, customs, actions, dialogues and sounds, Ma’s Sixtus-V-in-Rome-like gesture to constitute a new global Krakow. In the movie, the embodiment of forgetting will be staged.
I also show images of the temple of forgetting. With panoramic views of images, I present examples of how the face of Ma’s new building may look, as well as its interior compartitions–their walls, roofs and openings; moods, temperaments and humor. I show, with existing images, the architectonic consequences of gravity and thickness. From the panoramas, the body of the temple will be engendered.
