As part of the programme in the Asia Consciousness Festival, Sin Sin Fine Art is delighted to present "The Journey", a group exhibition featuring three artists from the gallery collections to explore the correlations of consciousness through and within the language of art. Art has long been seen as an aesthetic reflection of our inner and outer experiences. Sigmund Freud who developed the idea of forms of consciousness has led to the subsequent development of projective tests in psychology, the argument being that humans have conscious and unconscious attitudes and motivations that are beyond or hidden from conscious awareness. The best known and most frequently used projective test is the Rorschach inkblot test, in which a subject is shown a series of irregular but symmetrical inkblots, and asked to explain what they see, their response is then analyzed in various ways. This shows that some psychologists believe that there is a correlation between visual images and human consciousness. Besides psychotherapy, Art is now much more commonly employed as a kind of spiritual therapy for physically ill and even normal people. It is particularly in this light that we are presenting this time three of our artists who treat art as a spiritual quest.
Three artists, Sun Guangyi, Thep Thavonsouk and Tisna Sanjaya walk us through their journeys experiencing and discovering their spirituality and consciousness via the canvas.
ASIA CONSCIOUSNESS FESTIVAL – UNDERSTANDING THE MIND AND BODY
Who are you? What is real? How does the body create the mind? Or is it the other way around?
Over the past two thousand five hundred years, western science has developed explanations for nearly every aspect of life; how our bodies function, our cells, and down to our DNA. Despite our advances, we still have very little insight into the relationship between our mind and body. Nearly all top scientists consider the problem of developing an understanding of how the mind emerges from the body to be greatest challenge facing science today.
From June 5th -21st, Hong Kong hosts the Asia Consciousness Festival that includes over 30 events, bringing together leading international scientists, philosophers, spiritual teachers, artists, and performers to shed some light on this most illuminating topic. Among the highlights include the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, now in its 15th edition and Hong Kong debut; the inaugural About Consciousness Conference; the IEEE Conference on Cognitive Informatics; several one-day conferences on Social Approaches to Consciousness, Meaningful Media, and Machine Consciousness; the Asian premiere of several consciousness-related films including The Living Matrix, What About Me, BlindSight, Consciousness and Beyond, Flicker, Leap, and Ambition to Meaning; Art exhibitions throughout Hong Kong; musical and theatrical performances, including an inspiring performance by violinist Martha Curtis, who also talks about her experiences with epilepsy; many hands-on workshops by renown teachers; social activities that highlight Hong Kong; and trips to spiritual sites in China.
