livingbytruth June 5, 2012
I appreciate and admire what you are doing.
Ref
figuring things out, and meaningful scenes in life:
* Art allows us to hold people's attention to have such conversations.
* Art changes the rules as to what's acceptable, allows us to sketch out a
new world, new ways of behaving and relating.
* Wealth is relationships, and art creates wealth by holding together the
included and the excluded, rich and poor, young and old, woman and man,
educated and illiterate, passionate and apathetic...
* Art frees us to create art, so that the rational acknowledges and
engages the rational...
Pamela
Dara, great! I do hope you meet with Laura. The opening was great.
In a conversation of "respective spaces", please think of "Imagine
Englewood if..." where I am the "house artist". I'm creating and
organizing art for a large hall, about 100' x 30' x 13', to facilitate
youth activity.At Saturday's opening at SHoP, I led an energetic conversation about our
values and questions. I collected answers from 31 people regarding:
* What is your deepest value in life, which includes all of your other
values?
* What is a question that you don't know the answer to, but wish to answer?We placed the latter, our many questions about life, on a "learning
canvas" which I had created for that. We verified the categories that
they seem to fall into, from questions about a single person ("What should
I do?") - to relationships - to personal growth in general - and love to
foster that growth - supported by institutions - leading to an ideal
society. As well as heavenly questions about an abundance of spirit ("How
are we one?" "What is life?") and hellish questions about the lack of
spirit ("Why sin?" "Why evil?" "What is our fate?").We discussed this in the "arena" which served our conversation well,
holding us together, see photos:
http://www.selflearners.net/art/?e=20120527Questions
It all led to an intense conversation for several hours about God and
atheism.I'd love to do a similar survey at the Logan Center and at Imagine
Englewood if... I'm able to organize the questions nicely but I haven't
yet been able to do the same with our deepest values, which may take four,
five or six dimensions. Here's a list of values and questions that I've
collected from 600 people:
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?ValuesI'm also keen to relate our questions to "ways of figuring things out".
I've collected 1,500 such ways and organized them into a "House of
Knowledge" of 24 rooms:
http://www.selflearners.net/ways/Philosopher Bob Lichtenbert hosts Seekers' meetings once a month. He's
interested in how philosophy can be useful for developing one's own
"personal philosophy". Given that a person has a question they'd like to
answer, we're interested, how can they find their own answer? and how can
we help? given that we can't answer it for them. In other words, how can
and why might people link up their questions with various ways of figuring
things out?I imagine this relates to "meaning" in life, another interest of Bob's.
I've recently started to take classes in improv comedy at the Annoyance
Theatre. I've made a list of more than 100 scenes in my life that shaped
my personal growth. I'm trying to understand in what sense they are
meaningful. Many of them relate to "ways of figuring things out".Art is relevant for such conversations of values, questions, ways of
figuring things out, and meaningful scenes in life:
* Art allows us to hold people's attention to have such conversations.
* Art changes the rules as to what's acceptable, allows us to sketch out a
new world, new ways of behaving and relating.
* Wealth is relationships, and art creates wealth by holding together the
included and the excluded, rich and poor, young and old, woman and man,
educated and illiterate, passionate and apathetic...
* Art frees us to create art, so that the rational acknowledges and
engages the rational...Please keep me and "Imagine Englewood if..." in mind!
http://www.imagineenglewoodif.orgI invite you (as Abraham Lincoln!) to join us on Tuesday, June 19, at 730
69th St. for a free celebration of Juneteenth, on which day the
Emancipation Proclamation was declared to the slaves in Texas, more than a
year after the Civil war had ended. From 3:00 to 6:00 we'll have
activity, especially for youth, in the hall where I'll present the
"learning canvases" that we're making. From 6:00 to 8:00 we'll have a
show upstairs in the "Viking temple", a 24 foot high, 120 foot long hall
that may stir your imagination.Andrius
Andrius Kulikauskas
ms@ms.lt
(773) 306-3807> Andrius,
>
> Thank you for the introduction. I know of Laura and her work very well;
> from the Op Shop to what is now the Southside Hub of Production. I was
> not able to make it to Saturday's opening but would be happy to have an
> in-person conversation about how our respective spaces might be able to
> come into conversation with one another.
>
> Warmly,
> Dara
> --
> Dara Epison
> Civic Engagement Coordinator, Arts and Culture
> University of Chicago, Office of Civic Engagement
> O: 773.702.5255
> C: 773.456.1904
> E: depison@uchicago.edu
> http://www.uchicago.edu/community/
> http://arts.uchicago.edu/>
> On 5/26/12 2:57 PM, "ms@ms.lt<mailto:ms@ms.lt>"
> <ms@ms.lt<mailto:ms@ms.lt>> wrote:
>
> Dara, Laura, I'm resending with what I think is Dara's correct email
> address: depison@uchicago.edu<mailto:depison@uchicago.edu> Andrius
> Kulikauskas, ms@ms.lt<mailto:ms@ms.lt>
>
>
> Hi Dara and all,
>
> Tonight I'm going to an art show, "On Making Things Matter" in Hyde Park,
> at the Southside Hub of Production, 5638 S.Woodlawn Ave,
> http://southsidehub.org it's open from 6-11 pm. I plan to be there after
> 7pm and participate in the "open mic" with some thoughts on what, how, why
> things come to matter?
>
> Dara Epison (program coordinator for University and
> community-arts collaborations), I hope you might come, or at least, get in
> touch with Hub organizer Laura.Shaeffer AT gmai... This last year they've
> had art shows and activities at the house, which they rent from the
> Unitarian Universalist Church. The house will be sold, quite likely to
> the University of Chicago, but it would be really great if it might
> continue as a space for artistic ideas, perhaps as a branch of the Logan
> Center. The new Logan Center http://arts.uchicago.edu/logan/ feels
> "sterile" to me, and could really use an "organic" space to complement it,
> especially one close to the College.
>
> Andrius
>
> Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@ms.lt<mailto:ms@ms.lt>, (773) 306-3807
>
> --------------------
>
> On Making Things Matter: Strategies For Preservation
> http://southsidehub.org
>
> This is a show about leaving. As many of you are aware, SHoP will close
> down/move on July 31st. In keeping with tracking our life in the house,
> this exhibition explores strategies for holding onto experience, for
> wringing the meaning and significance out of the things that happen to
> us. We take pictures, we buy souvenirs, we write in journals, we perform
> rituals, we have parties, we tell stories and embellish them. Clearly,
> without memory we are helpless, but why not just let it happen and move
> on? Is enjoyment of an experience exclusive of the possibility of
> documenting it? Do we have to choose between immersing ourselves in
> experience and abstracting ourselves from it so as to understand,
> document, remember, define it?
>
> Cognitive science suggests that when we recall something, we are in each
> case remembering the last time we remembered it, and not returning to the
> primary source. Memory is fugitive, like the color red. It cannot maintain
> vibrancy for long, yet certain experiences, whether chosen or imposed,
> persist as primary, significant, essential narrative features in our
> autobiographies. Can these moments be authored, or do they happen in spite
> of us?
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