This dialogue about Art as a planetary garden of compassionate novelty explored the emerging roles of art and artists during and after the pandemic. We considered the realigning of earth and heart during times of crisis and quarantine: restoring balance through engagement with the archetypes of art. Our discussion reflected on art as a planetary garden, innovative and compassionate technologies, and the caring cultivation of the Noosphere, all of which have valuable contributions to make to our sense of wholeness and our capacity to envision and rebuild the life of the Self and the culture during these changing times. We heard of a group of women artists and scientists who sent their photos to the Moon and back to Earth during the quarantine, and we took a filmic spiritual journey in a desert and oasis.
The painting Alterpieces by Hilma af Klint inspired our meditative voyage:
Stepping into a cosmic portal, the earth is moist under the feet, the atmosphere is crystal clear and the wind softly blowing stardust.
Sensing presence in the temple of art, spiral shapes are dancing and becoming, forming into existence, turning mind into matter, spirit into sentient visions. Encircled by Earth, the choreography is bound by the gravity of circling planets partnered by the Moon and the Sun.
At the altar of art, to the background of the sky manifest Hilma af Klint’s Altarpieces, a triptych with a golden disc at its centre. To one side of the disc stands the triangle of Earth facing downwards, crowned by a planet placed on its base. A tiny white circle within a small circle engulfs two blue triangles that draw us deeper into the heart of the central disc of pure gold, leading us to reach beyond the veil of hues. To the other side of the disc stands the triangle of the sky, shining in all its glory.
The triangle of Earth connects the brain with the feet, the mind with the body, tuning planetary reception and action, adjusting the north sense.
The triangle of the sky cleanses the doors of perception with its crown of limitless light; it opens the noetic eyes of the intellect and the imagination to the field of consciousness.
The triangle of Earth and the triangle of the sky are the universal poles that adjust the flow of matter and spirit. The triangles shape shift at the centre of the disc into a magical talisman invoking the voyager to access the great mystery of the macrocosm.
Flanked by rhythms of the cosmos, the altar of art is realigning the pulse of earth and heart. This is Art as a planetary garden of compassionate novelty .
Dr Lila Moore is a pioneering artist film-maker, working in the transdisciplinary field of screen dance and technoetic arts, cyberperformance and mixed and extended reality. She is a lecturer, thesis supervisor, for the Alef Trust/MSc Programme in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, and teaches on the Transpersonal Psychology module as well as teaching the option course: Spirituality and the Imaginal. She is a theorist of technoetic arts as well as the intersection of the arts and the spiritual and occult. She began her explorations as a multimedia performance artist in the 1980s and her PhD from Middlesex University (2001) was the first practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen and the art form of screen dance in the UK and world-wide. She formulated a theory of Cybernetic Futures as a foundation for her Cybernetic Futures Institute, explicated in her article: The Shaman of Cybernetic Futures: Art, Ritual and Transcendence in Fields of the Networked Mind, published by Cybernetics and Human Knowing Journal (2018). The Cybernetic Futures Institute (CFI) was formed as part of her post-doctorate at the Planetary Collegium of Plymouth University. Her post doctorate's Director of Studies was the visionary and influential Prof. and artist Roy Ascott. The CFI involves digital learning environments and online exhibitions based on holistic principles and second-order cybernetics. Dr Lila Moore encourages compassionate and innovative approaches amongst learners, whilst attempting to explore and counteract the dominant narrative of violence. In addition, Lila Moore holds an MA degree in Independent Film and Video, and MPhil on the formal integration and evolution of screen-based art forms from Central Saint Martins, London, and a B.Ed. degree in Fine Art & Art History. She is a UK-certified self-development coach. Additionally, she was a lecturer at the Department for the Study of Mysticism and Spirituality at Zefat Academic College from 2013 until its closure in 2022. As a lecturer, she taught pioneering and rarely available academic courses on topics such as spiritual cinema, the spiritual in modern art and digital art, and film and ritual. She received the Outstanding Lecturer Award in 2022 for a decade of excellent and devoted work at the Department for the Study of Mysticism and Spirituality. Dr Moore regularly participates in academic conferences, and her articles and writings were published in academic journals and books. Lila Moore articulates her explorations in her films, screen dance, cyberperformance, mixed reality and digital artworks. She participates in juried and curated exhibitions, as well as curates online exhibitions via Cybernetic Futures. Lila Moore’s digital artworks and theoretical writings are archived by SIGGRAPH and ADA – Archive of Digital Art. For more information and updated contents visit her websites and subscribe to her newsletter: cyberneticinstitute.com Online exhibitions and films by Dr Lila Moore cyberneticfutures.comhttps://thefield.aleftrust.org/my-profile/lila-moore
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