THE TASKS OF PSYCHE AND MATTERS OF CARE.
PSYKHE (Psyche), the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros the Roman god of love.
Briefly, Psykhe was once mortal, a princess of extraordinary grace and beauty. Men began worshiping her instead of the mighty Aphrodite, which so angered the goddess that she demanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men. But, upon seeng her, Eros fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace. He hid his true identity and warned Psykhe never to gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god discarded her. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded she perform four impossible tasks: to separate a huge mountain of barley, millet, poppy seeds, lentils, and beans; to gather a hank of the wool from the shining golden sheep; fill a crystal vessel with the water of the spring that feeds the Styx and Cocytus, and finally, to bring back a box of Persephone's beauty cream from the underworld. Upon completion, Psykhe was reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
Briefly, Psykhe was once mortal, a princess of extraordinary grace and beauty. Men began worshiping her instead of the mighty Aphrodite, which so angered the goddess that she demanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men. But, upon seeng her, Eros fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace. He hid his true identity and warned Psykhe never to gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god discarded her. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded she perform four impossible tasks: to separate a huge mountain of barley, millet, poppy seeds, lentils, and beans; to gather a hank of the wool from the shining golden sheep; fill a crystal vessel with the water of the spring that feeds the Styx and Cocytus, and finally, to bring back a box of Persephone's beauty cream from the underworld. Upon completion, Psykhe was reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
The Tasks of Psyche. EROS. Anna Walker
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The Tasks of Psyche. Anna Walker
The Tasks of Psyche. Anna Walker
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Dolores Steinman, MD, PhD, is based in Toronto, Canada. She originally trained as a Paediatrician and, upon relocating to Canada, obtained her PhD in Cell Biology. Currently she is a Senior Research Associate in the Biomedical Simulation Laboratory, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT), part of an interdisciplinary team, also affiliated with the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). She is as well a volunteer Docent at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). In her research, Dolores is driven by her keen interest in placing the ever increasingly technology-based medical research in the larger context of the humanities. She observes the rapport and the connection between medical research and its non-medical counterparts.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/DoloresSteinman https://bsl.mie.utoronto.ca/ |
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Jo Milne, PhD, based in Barcelona, is a visual artist with a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Barcelona in 2016, her research focuses on the methodologies used by scientists, artists and visionaries to visualise the invisible. This research has led to collaborations with programmers and scientists at CitiLab (Cornella), the VHIR, Barcelona and the Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona and at the Museu Moli de Paper in Capellades. She is part of the research groups IMARTE (UB), ARE (Art, Resilience and Economy (Independent) and the Visionary Women Research Group led by Dr Pilar Bonet. She teaches visual creation at EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art in Barcelona and has lectured at the University of Barcelona, Winchester School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone, Europaïsche Kunstakademie Trier and MassArt (Boston). She has received awards from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Canada), the RSA, Arena Foundation, AENA and she has undertaken residencies at the Museu d’art de Sabadell and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo shows at Fundació Vila Casas (Barcelona), Museu d’Art de Sant Pol (Sant Pol), La Sala (Vilanova), Can Manyé (Alella) and Talbot Rice Art Centre (Edinburgh), Widener Gallery (EEUU), Forum (Switzerland). Her current research looks at the visualisation of the molecular world, exploring the possibilities of contagion between scientific and visionary practices; a research project supported by the Generalitat de Catalonia. www.jomilne.com
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Fin Walker, located in South East England, is a director, choreographer, energy healer and educator with training in body psychotherapy and coaching techniques. She is interested in human behaviour and how past experiences impact the present through the vehicle of the thinking, breathing, moving body. Her work as Co-Artistic Director of Walker Dance Park Music (in residency at The Royal Opera House 2002-2008), as a commissioned choreographer (Ballet Rambert, Candoco Dance Co) and as a choreographer for theatre (National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, Broadway), opera and television has all supported my directorial, choreographic and pedagogic development, and, importantly, my research into the accessibility of dance as an art form that can be appreciated by everyone. (The term ‘accessibility’ refers to work that ‘gives a way in’ to audiences so that it does not alienate them). She recently presented a stand of my research at ‘The Narratives & Violence’ conference in Turku, Finland (via Zoom!). This research focused on the 3 ‘wyrd sisters’ from Macbeth, investigating how to move away from the stereotypical image of ‘witches’ and the violence inscribed upon women’s bodies, whilst still maintaining a strong dramatic tension. She is also in the process of assisting Ralph Fiennes on his one man show, which he is directing & performing in, as his ‘Physicality & Expression Coach’, utilising her directorial methodology which she has been developing over the past 20 years: situating the performer in their body and in the space/environment.
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Anna Walker, PhD, based in South East England, is an artist, writer and researcher working in performance and mixed media. She has been exploring trauma in her arts practice research for many years, how the body responds to overwhelming traumatic and stressful situations and how it reorganises itself to cope with or manage the trauma. Current research focuses on collective and intergenerational trauma, and the body as a breathing organism. She was awarded an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University in 1998, and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC, Cambridge, in 2010. An interest in the effects of trauma on the body, developed during her work as a psychotherapist, led her to a PhD in Arts and Media at Plymouth University, which she completed in May 2017. Her arts-practice balances the auto-ethnographic with the critical, utilising personal experiences to facilitate a greater understanding of memory, trauma and its wider cultural implications. Since completing her PhD, Anna has been incorporating performance into her arts-practice, bridging technology with the spoken word to research memory, and identity. She uses storytelling as a method to seek alternative narratives for the future, in line with Simon O’Sullivan’s concept of future fictioning (2019) or Donna Haraway’s notion of 'speculative fabulation’ (2013).
https://www.digitalartistresidency.org/pomegranates/4/ https://www.anna-walker-research.com/ http://www.trans-techresearch.net/ https://areresearch.water.blog/ |
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/this_is_your_brain_on_paper
https://psyche.co/?utm_source=aeon-masthead&utm_medium=web
https://aeon.co/search?q=Brain
https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
https://activistneuroaesthetics.art/exhibition/
Marta Cenedese mentioned Narrative Medicine yesterday in a conversation. Intriguing. I've attached some info. https://www.theintima.org/
Lucid dreaming workshops, dreaming in union, in community... virtual dreaming. (Susan Hiller's early work about dreams, http://www.susanhiller.org/otherworks/dream_mapping.html, Jung etc. https://www.thesap.org.uk/resources/articles-on-jungian-psychology-2/carl-gustav-jung/dreams/
https://psyche.co/?utm_source=aeon-masthead&utm_medium=web
https://aeon.co/search?q=Brain
https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
https://activistneuroaesthetics.art/exhibition/
Marta Cenedese mentioned Narrative Medicine yesterday in a conversation. Intriguing. I've attached some info. https://www.theintima.org/
Lucid dreaming workshops, dreaming in union, in community... virtual dreaming. (Susan Hiller's early work about dreams, http://www.susanhiller.org/otherworks/dream_mapping.html, Jung etc. https://www.thesap.org.uk/resources/articles-on-jungian-psychology-2/carl-gustav-jung/dreams/