Traditions of arts help
to decipher meaning amidst the complexity of historic
and contemporary cultures. And they inform the development
of methods and models for collaboration, symbiosis
and coexistence.
Art
methods and processes develop body and mind as conductors
that perceive, synthesize and interpret information.
Developing these capacities is a basis for enabling
a wide range of actions and productions that contribute
to a functional to society.
The
arts are essential to human development and education.
As
we learn to examine the world and our location in
it with clarity and intensity, we develop our capacity
to interpret our surroundings and make informed and
choices.
Art
practice is a foundation to develop methods of intelligent
perception, innovative problem resolution and conscientious
functioning in the world.
In
a terrain of modernism/postmodernism, old-media/new-media,
form/content, context/ideologies; in light of an endless
list of dichotomies, contradictions and parallels,
all worthy of analysis, I maintain that the physical
and cognitive experiences provided by arts are keystones
in the construction of a sustainable and sane society.
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