Shakespeare in the Cave: A Big History of Art
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Shakespeare in the Cave: A Big History of Art is a creative practice project emanating out of Rich Blundell’s PhD dissertation on the transformative learning that can happen through engaging with the Big History narrative. It is an experimental project in cultural dissemination on the cosmic story.
- Used by people who call the work: Big History, Cosmic Evolution
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Art
- Learning Stages: Adult Education, Higher Education, Lifelong
- Type: Video
- Keywords: Big History of Art
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- Posted By: Lowell Gustafson
- Date Added: December 28, 2014
“Shakespeare in the Cave” is brilliant, thought-provoking, connective, and inspiring. What an incredibly multivalent presentation! I’m especially moved by how you synthesize macro issues, Rich, and how you facilitate the viewers’ own transformative and/or insightful experiences, versus simply communicate information from your brain to ours. For example, connecting the results of scientific “rules” with the emergence of planets, connecting Carrara marble with earth’s original eco-system, and connecting the development of stone tools with the emergence of narrative, aesthetics, and metaphor is heady, mind-bending stuff! One thing I will continue to contemplate is your comment that: “Van Gogh’s visions and dreams… Read more »
Invaluable! You have gotten to the heart of our work and challenge in this time. The fusion of art and science and meaning may well be the equivalent of discovering language itself. Your presentation collapsed time and space. Imposing the poetry and power of language from one century on the imagery of our digital world not only made deeper sense of each of the parts in a new way. It very well may shape the consciousness of the future species. You have accomplished what I’ve been trying to do in an experience we provide at our retreat. In a labyrinth… Read more »
Great comments, Carol! I love your idea that the fusion of art and science may shape future consciousness. I’ve been thinking more about this presentation/video and the direct connection, Rich, that you make between the ability of humans to dream and envision with electromagnetism from the Big Bang. (Am I understanding this correctly?) I have long understood that our own creative, self-transforming processes are—abstractly and metaphorically—connected with/reflective of the creative, self-transforming processes of the universe. Indeed, my Divine Sparks multimedia project is a metaphor for exactly that! However, I didn’t realize that these human processes—of dreaming and presumably creating too—are… Read more »