Hi Folks
I second Wendelin's recommendation of David Kayrouz for the AACORN
network. I am familiar with David's work and he is a keen musician.
Regards
Ralph
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From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wendelin Kuepers
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 8:16 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Poetry - the sometimes forgotten art?
Dear Nanetette,
Your inspiring suggestion concerning interpreting Yeats'
poem The "Second Coming" provides a tremendous revealing
potential indeed.
Yes the described soaring bird is on the way in a huge
highly adventuring and also ambiguous flight. The elusive
nature of Yeats's imagery vocative visionary lyric poem
raises still important questions to us.
The "gyres", as spirals captured contrary motions inherent
within the process of history influence us today, being
situated on new thresholds; facing (again?) a world
spinning out of control. In which cycles and cataclysmic
changes does history occur at present ?
Yeats was addressing nationalism and fascism between the
two world wars. But what if that was only one episode in a
longer-running drama that is now reasserting itself? What
could Yeats' anguish over the apparent decline of Europe's
ruling class (and his occult believes) mean for us today,
with regard to the dynamics of economics affecting the
entire world?
What would it mean that the current unsustainable life
gyres of business (as well as science and technology) is
sweeping outward, reaching via globalisation its greatest
expansion?
What does the next (post-apocalyptical?) st/age of what
you Nanette, call post-postmodernism entail?
However, can we share Yeats' belief that each human mind
is linked to a single vast intelligence, and that this
intelligence as "spiritus mundi" (literally "spirit of the
world") causes certain universal symbols - similar to Carl
Jung's concept of the collective unconscious - to appear
in individual minds?
It would be interesting to interpret the falcon-falconer
image, as that one of the head or intellect as the falcon
and disconnected from the rest of the body and the body
sensations and feelings (heart) as the falconer. How can
we overcome the separation of mind, emotion and embodiment
(without loosening a sense of differentiation)?.
Furthermore, what significance has art and aisthetics play
for a possible (non-regressive) re-membering and
re-connection in organisations?
Yeats had written in 1900 that: 'It is only by ancient
symbols, by symbols that have numberless meanings besides
the one or two the writer lays an emphasis upon, or the
half-score he knows of, than any highly subjective art can
escape from the barrenness and shallowness of a too
conscious arrangement, into the abundance and depth of
Nature. The poet of essences and pure ideas must seek in
the half-lights that glimmer from symbol to symbol as if
to the ends of the earth, all that the epic and dramatic
poet finds of mystery and shadow in the accidental
circumstances of life' ('The Philosophy of Shelley's
Poetry', E&I 87).
What would the enigmatic sphinx-like beast, as described
in the poem, mean for us today and what is our attitude
toward the beast in its current forms of tumultuous
transition?
It would be interesting to compare "The Second Coming" and
"the poem "A Vision" http://www.yeatsvision.com/
I would like to invite David Kayrouz to our Aacorn-forum!
He is an very interesting artist and entrepreneur, who
offers "creative pathways" for organisations. Through
directly adopting the creative focus of art and artists,
considering their methods and using their processes, he
works as a Creative Facilitator in organisations. As such
he is operating alongside the organisational framework of
a company, enhancing, co-ordinating and maintaining
creative opportunities for continuous internal development
as well as developing active conduits for creative
exchange between groups. Accordingly, he has gained
important experiences about the relation between dynamics
between creative thinking and practical applications in
organisations. Inviting artist like him to our circle
would certainly be very enriching !
His Email: [log in to unmask]
With all best regards
Wendelin
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