Meta-modern: Ukraine connections
As a small country in particular, today’s use of brute force in pursuit of a warped perception of national interest is a serious affront —— Michael Martin, Irish Taoiseach
Meta-modern Ukraine
(be) Benevolutions’ audience includes many associated with, in some ways, Ukraine. In the heartbreaking—including a lot of people will be mangled. much pain, many tears, generational trauma—our relationships and connections serve to step past sanitized explosions and/or hiding from our screens.
The meta-modern arts festival was held in Kyiv, Ukraine 2019. It is likely you know someone who went, was thinking of going (me) and/or have these relationships one step removed.
Our entangled connections can be supportive. In service of this below are several articles written in and around the Metamodern Arts Festival Kyiv and/or associated Emerge gatherings.
Reach out to your connections!
Elegant attraction
We can actually forecast a more beautiful future and select to help create that.
Daniel Schmachtenberger
Condensed into one 20 minute talk by Daniel Schmachtenberger, this is a wonderful and compelling ode to what is emerging—love and the beauty we can be part of consciously creating.
This talk was from an Emergence gathering in the years prior to the Kyiv festival. Incongruous? It stands as a call to beauty and presence in wildly diverse and challenging times.
Post is here>
Sincerity leading change
We need to express a better world
Olafur Eliasson
Ironic sincerity. Say that again? Ironic sincerity is one of the touchpoints of meta-modern concepts:
We can see further—embracing enthusiasm beyond sarcastic criticism, being both authoritative and timid while neither arrogant nor tentative through sincerity with our irony.
If that seems a little abstract, art helps make sense of this. The post is here>
Meta-modern index
A visual index of more meta-modern articles is here>
I hope this helps you-us to recall connections and reach out in supportive ways.
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Denys R. Bakiro, a lecturer and a PhD student at the UofK in Ukraine, wrote about the Meta-modern Arts festival and Emerge gathering in Kyiv:
On the last day of the events, Oskar, a young philosophy student from Sweden related to me his first impression of the gathering. When he entered the big hall he had a feeling that it “was full of gods”. The lights on the floor were directed upwards, facing from below the figures of the participants, all of whom were deeply engaged in small group discussions. They seemed to populate another dimension, one of the warm connectedness and meaningfulness.
His full article is here>
Pictures: Credits on each individual web page.
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