This is a report on the conference:
Image Arts Seen from the
Perspective of Spiritual Reality
that took place between the 6th
and 9th of August, 2011. This is a distillation of what I
experienced and the ideas I have tried to understand. For what it’s worth, it is a small window into the time we shared. It was a beautiful meeting. Thank you to all who have been, and
will be, involved with this event.
By Andrew Gilligan
In Hudson, New York, beside the
river and the trains, sits the Basilica Industria, a vast old factory. On August fifth, about seventy people
came from many parts of the earth to investigate the meaning of Art today. This is the second year of the conference’s
life, put together by members of the Arts Section of the School of Spiritual
Science and the community of the Free Columbia art course. The evolution of
consciousness in relation to artistic and technological evolution was explored,
and the metamorphosis of fear, as well as movement, group collaboration, and
new searchings into what it means to be an artist and what the role of art is
in these times. The high ceilings of the Basilica and the brick walls played
with the echoes of expectation.
The
conference, Image Arts Seen from the Perspective of Spiritual Reality,
is unique today within the flood of technological innovation, the escapism of
mainstream culture, and the dismissal of the reality of the spiritual world.
