Interview, Katja Majer, 12.04.2008
What is your personal understanding of art:- what is art?
- what is its purpose in the society?
- why is it often treated like useless?
Origin: artist-shaman => communication and cooperation with the invisible worlds for good of the entire community
Function of art: to enable spiritual experience, to do spiritual work In community: it was aware of its benefits, the artist-shaman was respected and supported
Today..
A lack of awareness of its purpose, degenerated function => art is mostly not integrated in the life of the society, is often not respected and valued as its important part
Possibility
With the restoring of its original function it could be reintegrated in the life of society
On condition: education not only about art but also about spiritual work (or restoring awareness about it, since it is often done subconsciousely), critical and responsible approach, focused equally on all arts levels (art that is only formalistic or only conceptional or only spiritual can not function according to its purpose, all its levels must be dealt with and balanced on a high level)
Possibility: with all the freedom and creativity that was integrated in art in the 20th century and with the awareness, respect and fulfillment of its original function, art can establish the place and the value in the contemporary society that belongs to it; can give to the society what is up to art to give
Personal way?
the base
demanding from myself to focus on personal growth, balance, wholeness, focusing on critical and systematical resarchching of the invisible worlds, looking for manners to develop deeper sensitivity for myself, looking for manners to support the developing of the sensitivity within others, demanding from myself to develop personal creativity and spiritual knowledge
personal way of realizing art
places of initiation: building of the spaces to walk in or to walk through, with the ambition to create a space of inner calmness, balance, possibility of reaching ones own inner world and essence, creating a possibility for deeper sensual, emotional and spiritual perception
work with the subtile forces of space: art as looking for a way to balance injured natural forces in some space, geomantia
with what
desire for non violent methods in my art, soft, warm, smelly, peaceful, balancing, bright, safe, loving …
line – spiral – circle, spiral – point – spiral, circle – sphere – egg
faders, silk, gold, velvet
word – message – voice
odour
potential meaning for the contemporary time
reality: psychedelic, materialistic culture full of noise, distraction, demands for being better, being faster, being uniformed, control …
ambition of the installations: providing a safe space for the visitor with the opposite qualities, providing a safe space for reaching ones own inner potentials, that can, integrated into ones life, raise its quality
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