The world reveals itself in accordance with your intent, with what your subconscious tells yourself it is the best. Your presuppositions result in a specific picture. The widest your spectrum, the richest your picture & vice versa
The question would be to some degree, how do you get your attention in order, for the most in-accordance-with-real beings perception?
Barriers between here and beyond, between self and other happen to fall within the memory of the dreamer. One vitalising current streams through all things, and he feels both intimately related to all he beholds, and a stranger to it.
The dreamer sees, wonders perhaps for a moment, and then understands: Naturally, it must be so!
Strangely but truly, holistic meanings come about with dreams imagery. The mind protesting? It feels like the substance of things disappears. A profounder vitality emerges. A knowledge deep within us would be satisfied.
The very limit of the possible and impossible cease to exist. Critical reason is silenced; the ebb and flood of the inner life hold sway: the hidden will of senses, the intrinsic meanings of existence ignored by the walking consciousness.
Interpalying subjective and objective dimensions of identity
The conclusion I draw from these compelling ethnographic studies is that we need to move our focus from cultural, religious, or ethnic diversity to a focus on HUMAN diversity and to see that human thought and action are never entirely reducible to the terms with which we classify, categorize, and conceptualize it
The unlike is joined together, from differences results the most beautiful harmony, ALL THINGS TAKE PLACE BY STRIFE
Pre-mind-sets toward vanishing
The thousand faces of man: diverse and polychromate, not a problem
Nobody give it to you
Do not let the stones stop the spirit
We are the New Temple, the Spiritual Jerusalem. Each one of us and all together
Drinking it all
Not the animal world, not the plants’ world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery. Man is the alien presence (…) in whose image society is to be transformed.
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From Brazil: Visibility. Entitlement. Self-representation. Horizontal respectful relationship. Awareness of the complexities of contemporary self-representation. Suggesting the possibility of a collective consciousness rooted in individual action. Careful not to moralize the subject, not to inscribe the work into a pre-established discourse or theory.
FROM FRANCE: Non-linear layout. The audience is given the active role of finding the route. Numerous points of view, varied perspectives, different paths. Every choice is a step ahead. Getting lost becomes the opportunity of retracing, not the same as regretting, your steps.
FROM INDIA: Art as truth and performative experience, passive resistance, peaceful protest, minimal consumption. Space for self-reflection. Call for attentiveness. Invocation to shared futures.
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If I really believe in one human race, containing equally every human being, I might look around purposefully and intentionally. Invite people into my life who don’t look/think/act like me, don’t come from where I come from. They will challenge my assumptions and offer powerful new insights.
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I no longer see a clear distinction between “Western” and “Chinese” scholarship on Chinese art. DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE, readership, and academic environment certainly exist, BUT GLOBAL COLLABORATION AND MUTUAL LEARNING HAS BECOME THE DOMINANT TREND.(more…)
This world deserves to exist in a diverse way, where all of the wisdom of all peoples can contribute to our collective well-being.
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Since there has been cultural evolution on planet Earth, we are not determined by the culture we belong to by birth. Both, location and the features of our body, are the starting point shaping our identity. But we are the ones saying the last word.
Read More›The single-story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED Talk
«The title of the Art Exhibition in Biennale di Venezia 2019, MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES, could be interpreted as a sort of curse where the expression “interesting times” evokes the idea of challenging or even “menacing” times, but it could also simply be an invitation to always see and consider the course of human events in their complexity, an invitation, thus, that appears to be particularly important in times when, too often, oversimplification seems to prevail, generated by conformism or fear. And I believe that an exhibition of art is worth our attention, first and foremost, if it intends to present us with art and artists as a decisive challenge to all oversimplifying attitudes.»
Paolo Baratta, President of the Biennale di Venezia
Cultural growth depends on substantive conversations (more…)
The answer to the shared question of what’s the meaning of being human and being alive would be ideally an evolving image.
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The differentiation of sex, age, and occupation are not essential to our character, but mere costumes which we wear for a time on the stage of the world.
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DNA ties us all together. Written in our DNA, our genetic code, we have a historical document that takes us back in time to the very earliest days of our species.
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Diverse, panoramic, polychromatic world VERSUS Monotonous, binary, monochromatic world
On following this dream of bringing into being an image of race, one race that embraces all of us, I just had to open my eyes to realize how my effort already belongs to a world-wide-web net of dreamers.
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More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. There is a TED Talk, by writer Pico Iyer, which helped me to reconsidered that apparently prompt question that comes out when meeting first time someone: Where are you from?
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