New York, New York
JULY 19-22, 2012
An International Conference
Organized by the Art and Psyche Working Group
Sponsored by the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Cosponsored and Hosted by New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development: Department of Applied Psychology and Department of Art and Art Professions
The Art and Psyche Working Group is pleased to announce a conference on the creative collaboration between depth psychology and the arts in the context of a city.
Traditional plenaries, workshops and breakouts will feature presentations by painters, musicians, poets, actors, photographers, psychotherapists, analysts and expressive arts therapists. Ten minute sparks of images and ideas will flash throughout the conference.
The Arts Paths offer designed tours of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Asia Society Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its Watson Library, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There will be walking tours of the Masonic temple and the High Line, viewings of subway station murals in The Arts For Transit program, and selected art and psyche videos at NYU. Maps of galleries and subway art will be provided.
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) and the Kristine Mann Library (KML) will offer open houses for those interested in the arts, symbolism and psychology.
The Thursday night public program with the award-winning poet Mark Doty on Walt Whitman, and Donald Sosin on his score for the film Manhatta, will include a panel with composer Jorge Martin and photographer Deborah O’Grady. A Saturday night Dream-Over, an overnight spent at the Rubin Museum, will be offered.
Program, registration and hotel information can be found at http://www.cvent.com/d/3cqkt6 or contact us at artandpsyche@nyu.edu.
Who decides what is art? Modernity, from my point of view, has a very poor idea of what art is. Modernity has decided that paint splattered on walls, griffiti, and the trash that litters the lawns of art museaums are worthy of display when the refuge bin was more suitable for such non-sense. Art is certainly not self-indulgence though it may be psychologically therapeutic.
Art is a universal idea, which all peoples from all cultures around the world should be able to appreciate without any difficulty even if they do not understand it.
The artist should use universal symbolism to structure his or her soul/psyche and to organize his vision before putting that vision to canvas or marble or whatever.
There really is only one thing humans speak of though he or she is lost in the mist of the world and believe he or she has other interest. The one and only thing humans speak of is the DIVINE; thus, all art should be symbolically praising the spiritual forces that exist in the universe.
This is exactly what artists did in the early days of Christianity and in the medieval and rennaissance periods. There was noting else worthy of discussing.
There should be lables such as ART and pseudo-art: the latter to designate a personal idea that is not universal. Pseudo-art would not even be worth the attention of a second individual unless it was his or her theraphist.