The Art-Experience & The Architecture of Our Identities @Comprehensivist Weds
Details
Karen Montanaro will explain and show how the arts optimize the natural but often ill-fated process whereby the individual’s private “inner life” and public, “outer life” fuse to form an identity. this understanding of ourselves — the mathematically precise, geometrically stable architecture of our identity — is crucial to unlocking the "nuclear" power of the arts to make us whole.
Many of the alarming and tragic challenges in the world that we seem powerless to address are ripple effects of an age-old identity crisis whereby we exploit our self, our neighbor, and our ecosystems for the sake of "progress".
Karen will explain and illustrate how the art-experience solves this identity crisis: The art-experience proves — viscerally and unequivocally — that we are not separate islands of self-interest but unique expressions of a universal spirit.
Her idea is succinctly explained in this short 1m 28s video
http://y2u.be/lDAhXtckk8Y
Event format:
Karen's presentation will be split into two segments. Each will be followed by Q&A and breakouts into groups of 6-8 to explore the subject further.
Then we will come back together in the large group and every attendee will have the opportunity of giving their reflections and takeaways for 2-3
minutes. Then we will wrap up.
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
The first, introductory, event from "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwTy6pGkNA
The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7
CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/
To see all forthcoming "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" events, look at the Wednesday events on the "52 Living Ideas" calendar: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/
Here is an outline of future events:
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela
Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Architecture of Our Identities with Karen
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
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