Awakening the Aesthetic Awareness workshop- Feb

[jinan]

My name is Jinan.
This mail is to connect with you i am sending you details about a
workshop I am planing to do in kerala. That will give you an idea
about my work. do send me your contact number as when i come to delhi
i can meet you.
The workshop called ‘Awakening the Aesthetic Awareness’ at Nilambur
from 16th Feb to 20th Feb 2011 (wednessday to sunday).
This workshop is in a way the culmination of my work related to
recovering authenticity, originality in terms of aesthetic sensibility
and cognitive process.
This has been developed from my past 20 years of work (learning from)
with artisans and children. (www.kumbham.org, www.rediscoveringchildhood.org,
http://www.my.opera.com/jinankb )

Two parallel explorations I have been engaged has been to understand
how we have been damaged – homogenized, cloned, de skilled,
fragmented, alienated- by the modern education and other conditioning
institutions and tools– market, hospitals, TV, news etc. and how as a
biological organism born with tools to make sense of its world
understands it and inhabit.
School prepares us for processing and storing information by excessive
importance given to memorization and development of conscious and
instrumentalist reasoning. These two skills seems to be incapable of
perception, creativity which is what is required in the realm of
unknown.

Some time ago, in 1996 or so I had done a workshop called Against the
tyranny of reason. An year later I did another workshop called de
textualising experience. All these issues seems to me very much
connected to loss of our connection with the core of our being which
is biological, sensorial, experiential, autonomous etc.
My work with the non literate artisans due to its paradigm of respect
for their creativity and cultural rooted ness gave insight in to a
very different way of knowing and being- humble, innocent, respectful
of nature and at the same time original and creative. ( Modern notions
of creativity is very much a commercial centered and market
driven which stems from greed and not need)

This 5 day workshop do not claim to solve any of that but would
probably initiate a journey towards that end.
I am attaching a flyer, registration form and a write up about the
event.
Kindly pass this on to any one who would be interested in attending
the event.
Jinan
http://vimeo.com/8026239

http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/
--
Jinan,
'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE
BEING'

www.re-cognition.org
www.kumbham.org
http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/
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