Synapse Creating Connections: Bridging spaces between Knowledge Eleni Rivers, Catherine van Wilgenberg and Jenni Goricanec) May 9th and 10th, June 13th and 14th
This unit will take place at MIECAT (The Melbourne Institute for Experiential and Creative Arts Therapies 15 Victoria Street Fitzroy)
An aesthetic experience is the spark of enlightenment or connection in an 'Aha 'moment when things make sense and everything becomes clear! Such a moment has been described by James Joyce as 'aesthetic arrest'.
Joseph Campbell helped to make the idea known, in his lectures on Joyce: “The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object....you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.... The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.” James Joyce “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
This program will move participants to create their own bridges between many and varied ways of knowing, crossing disciplinary divides between art, science and spirituality/religion. Through a series of visual explorations and using a variety of materials, participants will become familiar with a holistic approach to aesthetics by way of drawing, painting, experimentation with prisms and map making.
Entering into the aesthetic experience opens up creativity which will be brought into physical form through individual and group projects. Shared portals create cultural connections across discipline, language and culture.