With the waning of humanism and its deification of the human, some of the more hubristic assumptions of secularism have also been shaken. In this session we will explore how emerging understandings of humans' embeddedness within a larger whole might reinvest art with a spiritual and/or cosmological dimension and what role art might play in this nascent identity of the human.
3.1 Is there a spiritual dimension to the language of form, and if so how does it differ from the kind that might be conveyed through discursive content?
3.2 Is there an ethical dimension to aesthetic form?
3.3 Is there a spiritual or ethical dimension to matter itself, even before it is shaped by the art-making human organism?
3.4 Is there an inherent relationship between form and "interbeing," Thich Nhat Hanh's word for the relational nature of the physical world? In what ways might form open us to a spiritual experience of this reality?
3.5 Can a new sense of aesthetic form help shift conventional assumptions about spirituality and religion that invariably invoke a paternalistic sky God? Can it pull us into greater awareness of a spirituality of immanenece?
3.6 Are there other approaches to the religio-spiritual-ethical dimension that aesthetic form might actively engage?
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