Month: October 2014

When speech is written down a change occurs in our perception of language itself. How might we relate differently to the world around us if we had an oral people’s sense of language?

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Questions can be portals to new awareness. Here’s one: What…

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Waste can become a resource with a mere change of mind. How might interacting with materials in the context of art awaken us to their dual life, and nurture a healthy material culture?

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Perturbances may bring news of something dangerous or delightful coming through. What kinds of arts practices might stretch our faculties of perception, that we may better attend to subtle changes within us and around us?

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Maps help us to connect the diversity of environments that support life, building our awareness of the territories within us and around us. What territories are as yet unexplored that may be illuminated by maps? What inventive mapping techniques may bring new light to the patterns that connect all life?

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Our instinct for discerning good stories and for generating them is related to our sense of ourselves as part of an interconnected web of relations. What art practices might stimulate storytelling that articulates this web beyond the human community?

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Gift giving is how we perpetuate a virtuous cycle of exchange that is qualitatively different from the closed loop of market exchange. Artists, who are gifted from the start, are natural proponents of cultures of giving. What new formats might enrich such cultures, and what occasions are appropriate to them?

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Faces are strongly implicated in our capacity for empathy, which is strongly implicated in our ability to self-regulate our behaviors for collective welfare. What opportunities are there for extending our responsiveness to the human face into the more-than-human world?

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