[-empyre-] FW: Week 1: art, intuition and technology

[Renate Ferro]

Dear Arshiya, 
    Thank you so much for introducing your curatorial ideas in regards to the Dawn of Aquarius.  You were inspirational in my conception of our discussion this month in terms of thinking about the juxtaposition between art, intuition, and technology.  This framing is also inspired by the anthology by Canadian author and curator Jennifer Fisher.  Jennifer who will be our guest during Week 4 published an incredible book in 2007, The Technologies of Intuition.  The book brings together Jennifer's brilliant writing and those of other artists and theorists.  The overall theme of the book posits that there is a tension in the process of creation between an artist's gut instincts or psychic impulses and disciplined work and strategy.  
    
    I have always been fascinated by the notion of the psychic or the affect of intuition.  My own anxieties as an artist seem to present themselves as a  tension between my inner impulses and my sense or organization and discipline. (perhaps prodded by my own astrological sign of a Virgo.)
    
    Arshiya, like you I welcome a sense of breath, space, time to reflect that the Dawn of Aquarius provides this month/year as a respite.  While this shift to Aquarius is bookmarked by intuition, creativity and aptitude.  It also provides a time for us all to think about care, caring for the health of our humankind and our planet.  Thanks for including me in your online exhibition, www.lakeeren.com
    This new series I have created is certainly in response to ecological care driven by climactic crisis.  
    
    Here we go.  Welcome to our March discussion. 
    Renate