The Hermeneutic Role of Art in Spiritual Experience. Building a Laboratory for Art and Spirituality.

Project: Research Project

Project Details

Description

This project aims to design and explore a novel interdisciplinary methodology to describe and evaluate the extent to which art.

Creation reveals and gives meaning to spiritual experience.

This methodology is based on four principles: (i) collaborative research
involving an interdisciplinary laboratory of artists working alongside philosophers and social scientists; (ii) participatory.

Observation in activities aimed at involving participants in the description of their own creative and interpretive processes.

Around the spiritual experience; (iii) reflexivity and dialogic understanding using autoethnographic instruments and
phenomenological analysis; and (iv) interculturality to ensure the inclusion of Latin American perspectives in the global discussion.

Key activities include seven residential workshops and regular online discussion sessions.

Workshops are retreat spaces in which participants gather around a guiding theme and a series of spiritual practices (e.g. contemplation, meditation, prayer and psychophysical exercises) and artistic activities to observe, describe and discuss their creative process. regarding
spiritual experience.

The use of autoethnographic journals and other instruments will serve this objective.

The data produced will be analyzed from a phenomenological approach.

The main product of the laboratory will be a convergent document platform (CDP).

The CDP will be a free-access website platform whose main materials will be eight short documentary videos that capture the creative and reflective process of the participants in the laboratory.

At least one academic article will also be published.

The project offers an important contribution to the ASU program, in terms of elucidating the characteristics and processes involved in artistic understanding, as well as providing a model for future interdisciplinary work.

Additionally, the project will identify and explore indicators of how
Artistic creation enhances understanding, which could be developed as empirically traceable categories in a second phase.

Keywords

Spiritual experience, understanding, artistic creation, aesthetic cognitivism.

Commitments / Obligations

- CDP (convergent document platform).
- Articles
- 7 Workshops
- Project for the next phase.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2/1/2211/30/23

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education

Main Funding Source

  • International

Location

  • Bogotá D.C.

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