Science Art Philosophy Society

CURRENT SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT

In the current socioeconomic context, sciences have adopted a dominant attitude and an absolute cultural hegemony compared to all other forms of knowledge, despite having had to renounce the claim of being bearers of absolute truths due to proven evidence. While philosophy has legitimized and supported the value of scientific research, asserting that our dimension of reality can be modified and somehow reshaped, sciences and technology, ultimately subordinated to materialist goals and market rules, have appropriated the absolute right of dominion over the things of the world, modifying, producing, or destroying them, bending nature and humans to their own logic: where performance becomes an indisputable and unquestionable value. Philosophy has effectively been the root upon which an uncontrollable scientific-technological apparatus has been built, an apparatus that self-feeds and seeks to sustain itself by nourishing its own logic: “efficiency and profitability,” the logic of that market thought to be a panacea, or the answer to all of man's needs and his need for happiness, to counter the pain of existence. “The tool becomes the end,” a process and a dynamic that can no longer be stopped: the governance model of the twenty-first century has abandoned the humanist vision of society, abdicating in favor of technoscience, an epilogue that marks all of the recent history of the West: “the pinnacle of Western madness,” its unstoppable decline that will probably resolve in a painful process of self-destruction.

FILOSOFIA & ARTE

“Philosophy, the sentinel of the becoming of the world” (Emanuele Severino), philosophy to ask questions, evaluate assumptions, grasp potential advantages, and weigh possible side effects (analysis of the phenomenological aspect), cornerstones for outlining the sense of the world, directions of civilization, science, and technology; authentic logos to counter the overbearing power of the scientific-technological apparatus, a radical rationality, a sense of reason placeable in a superior locus, to be superimposed on the so-called philosophical-scientific rationality. Therefore, in a context like the one described earlier, the purpose is to question the root of this civilization, without, however, manifesting (as currently happens with contemporary art) massive evocations of the decline of the West, which in fact support the affirmation of a nihilistic consumer civilization, for which nothing must be sacred, “everything that is useful can be purchased”; an approach that becomes a true resonance chamber for the new global order, embodying the most radical conformist spirit. Art and philosophy, two apparent opposites that need to meet, for the evolution of all humanity, to bring forth those truths that underlie all things: “to discover the divine within oneself,” one's inner beauty, the self that is in everything and observes itself from its point of view, and finally that “to live in a state of happiness it would be enough to grant oneself the freedom to do so.”
Philosophy and Art, reason and imagination, critical consciousness that demolishes every fanaticism and visionary intuition that can emerge from the most remote inner qualities, because art can communicate in ways complementary to reason, creating perspectives and alternative points of view that thus reveal the profound synergies that unite Art and Philosophy.

SCIENZA E ARTE

Science is primarily an exploratory-imaginative activity, and intuition is the spark that sets off the intellectual adventure and any conquest of knowledge. Having vision and ideas is the greatest gift one can wish for a scientist, as well as the ability to unite the vibrations of the heart with the vibrations of the intellect, because reality is “physical, psychic, and also metaphysical.” In the depths of the self, the psyche is the universe, awareness of a unique self, fused in a work that can only be defined as divine, as it is unknowable in the human dimension and beyond our current scientific understanding. Thus, Science and Art can only merge in the figure of a humanist-scientist who can finally open a new era in the exploration of knowledge, an inevitable passage to reactivate a new evolutionary development of all humanity.

IL RUOLO DELL’ARTE

“Life breaks and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one” (Stella Adler)

“ART is spiritual nature, principle, and representation, revealing itself illuminates the space of truth-beauty in a narrative that unfolds in an infinity of possible forms,” an act that at any moment can promote renewal, expression of a deep need for knowledge of the human spirit, a transversal exploration within the self, traversing conscious and unconscious, cathartically confronting one's shadow, finally integrating it to find one's own balance and inner harmony. The artist should also be the apprentice magician careful not to be engulfed by the dynamics operated by mass media manipulation, governed by transnational power centers that shape the collective imagination through the media, implementing almost total control over the imaginative, rational, and emotional dimension.
Promoting Art always and everywhere, a natural barrier to counter the rampant sterilization of the innate human creative capacity and the progressive closing of its inner horizon, starting from the earliest age to familiarize with myths, fairy tales, music, poetry, and figurative arts, “giving voice to the inner child and letting all vital potential flow,” (re-empowerment of archetypal energy) Gustav Jung. A kind of way out, to escape the psychological discomfort that characterizes this historical period, escaping from a dimension of passive crushing.
“Art to know and develop one's talents” to give shape, color, and matter to what we feel, a journey into the unknown that most often translates into a tortuous path, among fears, painful experiences, or traumatic memories buried in the unconscious. During the creative activity, we evoke them, we transpose them into space, and at the same time, we open ourselves to change, through the contact with the emotions that result from it.
For the psychoanalyst James Hillman “The psyche is imaginary,” artistic expression can become a sort of therapeutic activity, an immersion in sensory experiences, a superimposition of moments of contact with the unconscious and the fantastic, a privileged position of listening to the reactions of one's body and the emotions that emerge: this happens because for the brain there is no substantial difference between objective reality and imagination, effectively becoming a condition in which evocation is perceived as real.
Therefore, artistic expression can become the space to influence even the state of well-being, joy, happiness, and also the condition of health. Because the environment and vital processes interact with each other: if I control the environment, if through this I direct my thoughts, I will also control the perception of existence.
“Tonic thoughts produce tonic chemicals, toxic thoughts produce toxic chemicals” (Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist), for the theory of the wave genome the genetic apparatus is considered a quantum bio-computer, using the verbal structures of DNA, RNA, and proteins, for the management of the entire organism, asserting the primacy of energetic-informational activity over biochemistry. Peter Piotr Gariaev, a Russian scientist who discovered the so-called “DNA phantom effect,” has shown that the living substance of DNA in living tissue reacts to laser rays modulated by language, but also by radio waves, this also explains why affirmations (especially if participated in a context of strong emotional involvement, or in hypnotic states or other similar activities) can have such a powerful effect on human beings.
For Joe Dispenza, considered one of the greatest experts in neuroscience, epigenetics, and physics: “thought is the electrical charge in the quantum field and feelings are the magnetic charge” the way you feel and think, transmits a field, which when coherent (synchronization) becomes a powerful magnetic field; an energy that is frequency and can carry information, thought, Intention. Therefore: seeing and feeling as if an event has already happened, feeling the emotions you would feel if the event had really happened, changes the quantum field, changing the matter.

“The universe is a thought of God” Einstein.

Creation, therefore, is a thought of the creator. “And God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him” (Genesis). I think, therefore, I create, thought thus shapes and molds physical matter. Everything begins with a thought, from the eidos, that is, an idea that is form, a creation that continuously springs from our thoughts, and it is for this reason that art can and must reclaim its rightful role: “to become the spark that influences and moves cultural, scientific, and technological dynamics.”
The spark that can reactivate the desire that underlies existence: “the will to happiness,” thus redeeming the state of suffering that pervades the entire existence, committing to the pursuit of a personal state of happiness, supporting the will for personal growth and the participatory evolution of all humanity.
Man, an essence genetically programmed to grasp and project forms, and who in the artistic form experiments with the search for himself and the interpretation of the world around him, expressing his own uniqueness, in an attempt to represent an alternative reality to which to assign a precise purpose: a “telos,” an ultimate goal, that drives minds towards a high and hidden truth, perhaps unattainable, but in some way a goal to pursue.
“The creative act is a sort of alchemy,” a sublime gesture that fuses matter and spirit, because it is only in the temporal experience of earthly physical existence that it is possible to imagine, try, experiment, modify, analyze, try again, and finally order the forces in the matter. A long process in which aligning, focusing, connecting, and tuning are verbs and actions

Maurizio Rosettani

fondatore di ART IN SPACE