About "Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene"
We live in an age in which "civilized" humanity scrutinizes the earth and cosmos to their last corners and in the process calculates, uses, exploits, copies, transforms and destroys all life. Perhaps this is the way things are and future transhumanistic beings will - completely devoted to the perfect autonomy of simulation - attribute a bit of sentimentality to the lost richness of life on earth (for the sake of completeness and with an almost realistic appearance of feeling).
But what if human beings still carry quite different, truly living potentials within them? Would it not be a failure of cosmic proportions if the universal potentials of man and the ensouled nature were not even perceived (rediscovered?) and human beings out of sheer ignorance, arrogance and greed transformed into technical-biological hybrids or even went extinct and dragged countless forms of life with them into death?
The dialogical aesthetics in the Anthropocene explores - in order to initiate and promote post-Anthropocenic conditions - human dimensions of perception, thinking, feeling and acting in transdisciplinary encounter spaces on this planet abused by man. It is about the appreciation of bodily-spiritual senses and the truth-perception of our most inherent possibilities that emerges from mutual exchange.
Dialogical aesthetics wants to explore the world inside and outside, and get to the bottom of it. It wants to experience and understand what we feel, know and do (can) from our hearts and together with the non-human co-world. It is committed to humaneness and the salvation of the ensouled and abused bodies of human and non-human beings.
The "Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene" explores methods and processes of world-discovery and shaping, in which perception (aesthetics) and encounter (dialogue) merge into a dialogical aesthetics. The reference to the Anthropocene takes into account global as well as local characteristics and requirements of the present. Aesthetics, as it is understood and presented here, also includes an engagement with artistic work and artistic research.
artistic research - perceiving, touching, understanding, and shaping life and world
This artistic research is an exchange about how we as humans can develop, deepen, and shape a living relationship with nature, the non-human co-world, with ourselves, and with each other. The artist and nature educator Barbara Kastura with her project "wundersam" is an accompanist. "Established thought and perception structures have the opportunity to be reversed and perspectively diverse in encounters with nature and each other. This artistic exploration of the forests of life opens up a shared encounter space with, in, and from nature. The participants experience themselves as experimental researchers in a comprehensive, lively process of experience and knowledge. Each perspective is valuable and holds infinite potential in the collective process. Life encounters life: From the realm of humans, plants, clouds, animals, landscapes, rivers, organizations, stones, or winds. Seeing and being seen."
Consciousness
What is the difference between individual and non-individual consciousness? Does consciousness exist that knows more about itself and is more than the consciousness of a human individual? What is the consciousness of a human crowd, an animal swarm, a cell or plant union, or a landscape including its atmosphere? What kind of consciousness is present in "atoms"? What forms, contents and qualities of consciousness are expressed in planets, stars, galaxies, and even the universe? What kind of consciousness do time and space have if they are not just philosophical, scientific, or technical categories, but are instead containers and guardians of unfoldment?
What concept can we have of a consciousness that we still mostly believe is exclusively found in our Earth-born species - is this small-format, narrow-minded consciousness that appears through us humans really what makes us human in particular? Or would what makes us special be a consciousness that does not feel, perceive, or think exclusively, but instead is intertwined with the infinite consciousness entities that exist as living and perceiving units within us and beyond us?
How can we open our consciousness to such connections? We would probably need an organ, a sensorium, that is present in the world and in all beings. Just as we feel the wind caressing our skin, we could experience the creative wonder that makes up the world and penetrates every moment through this sensorium. Allowing this sensorium would be like a cosmic baptism.
Such a consciousness, intertwined in the world's affairs and that can be called sacred, cannot be developed or mastered through thinking, it would be an event that wants to be (through humans?) unfolded in the course of development processes on our planet. It can only be initiated through thinking, if we could think about directing our attention to what wants to be (through us?) unfold.
We could create spaces of encounter and awareness and dedicate ourselves to the development of an integral consciousness whose qualities we can't even imagine or realize yet. This would be a new form of research, where humans gain knowledge through living, truly felt encounters. Technical developments will also continue to be developed, initially focusing on awareness techniques and communication techniques - in a bold yet responsibly handled addition to digital, media, biochemical, and physical etc. techniques and processes.
But what if human beings still carry quite different, truly living potentials within them? Would it not be a failure of cosmic proportions if the universal potentials of man and the ensouled nature were not even perceived (rediscovered?) and human beings out of sheer ignorance, arrogance and greed transformed into technical-biological hybrids or even went extinct and dragged countless forms of life with them into death?
The dialogical aesthetics in the Anthropocene explores - in order to initiate and promote post-Anthropocenic conditions - human dimensions of perception, thinking, feeling and acting in transdisciplinary encounter spaces on this planet abused by man. It is about the appreciation of bodily-spiritual senses and the truth-perception of our most inherent possibilities that emerges from mutual exchange.
Dialogical aesthetics wants to explore the world inside and outside, and get to the bottom of it. It wants to experience and understand what we feel, know and do (can) from our hearts and together with the non-human co-world. It is committed to humaneness and the salvation of the ensouled and abused bodies of human and non-human beings.
The "Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene" explores methods and processes of world-discovery and shaping, in which perception (aesthetics) and encounter (dialogue) merge into a dialogical aesthetics. The reference to the Anthropocene takes into account global as well as local characteristics and requirements of the present. Aesthetics, as it is understood and presented here, also includes an engagement with artistic work and artistic research.
artistic research - perceiving, touching, understanding, and shaping life and world
This artistic research is an exchange about how we as humans can develop, deepen, and shape a living relationship with nature, the non-human co-world, with ourselves, and with each other. The artist and nature educator Barbara Kastura with her project "wundersam" is an accompanist. "Established thought and perception structures have the opportunity to be reversed and perspectively diverse in encounters with nature and each other. This artistic exploration of the forests of life opens up a shared encounter space with, in, and from nature. The participants experience themselves as experimental researchers in a comprehensive, lively process of experience and knowledge. Each perspective is valuable and holds infinite potential in the collective process. Life encounters life: From the realm of humans, plants, clouds, animals, landscapes, rivers, organizations, stones, or winds. Seeing and being seen."
Consciousness
What is the difference between individual and non-individual consciousness? Does consciousness exist that knows more about itself and is more than the consciousness of a human individual? What is the consciousness of a human crowd, an animal swarm, a cell or plant union, or a landscape including its atmosphere? What kind of consciousness is present in "atoms"? What forms, contents and qualities of consciousness are expressed in planets, stars, galaxies, and even the universe? What kind of consciousness do time and space have if they are not just philosophical, scientific, or technical categories, but are instead containers and guardians of unfoldment?
What concept can we have of a consciousness that we still mostly believe is exclusively found in our Earth-born species - is this small-format, narrow-minded consciousness that appears through us humans really what makes us human in particular? Or would what makes us special be a consciousness that does not feel, perceive, or think exclusively, but instead is intertwined with the infinite consciousness entities that exist as living and perceiving units within us and beyond us?
How can we open our consciousness to such connections? We would probably need an organ, a sensorium, that is present in the world and in all beings. Just as we feel the wind caressing our skin, we could experience the creative wonder that makes up the world and penetrates every moment through this sensorium. Allowing this sensorium would be like a cosmic baptism.
Such a consciousness, intertwined in the world's affairs and that can be called sacred, cannot be developed or mastered through thinking, it would be an event that wants to be (through humans?) unfolded in the course of development processes on our planet. It can only be initiated through thinking, if we could think about directing our attention to what wants to be (through us?) unfold.
We could create spaces of encounter and awareness and dedicate ourselves to the development of an integral consciousness whose qualities we can't even imagine or realize yet. This would be a new form of research, where humans gain knowledge through living, truly felt encounters. Technical developments will also continue to be developed, initially focusing on awareness techniques and communication techniques - in a bold yet responsibly handled addition to digital, media, biochemical, and physical etc. techniques and processes.
