Alan Browne
We make visual, aural and kinaesthetic choices every moment as we navigate daily life. Entering the Aesthetic Domain, central integral questions of aesthetics are explored through media scenarios, colour, photographs, ritual interaction, visual thinking, voice. We explore the social construction and social expression of self and identity, exploring aspects in the world around us that influence and shape our identity as well as exploring how identity and perception of ‘self’ shapes our understanding of the world around us. We attempt to heal aspects of the socio-culturally induced schism between the rational-logical and intuitive-creative, integrating the intuitive and the rational mind through experiential learning, art practice, and meditation, giving the mind space through which our thoughts, ideas, perceptions can be digested, or simply released. Over time participants uncover principles of aesthetic judgments, cultural preferences and prejudices and develop their own praxis in communication for social change, identifying integrated layers of social, ecological and spiritual forces in the materialisation of aesthetic forms.