We are starting this conversation about art by entering through a side door and exploring the idea of art as a conversation, an evolving conversation. What comes to mind is that there must be several parties involved to have a conversation. Who or what is "art" talking to? What is passing between us? It’s thinking of art as a space where it becomes possible to inspire, to make contact, to create a new connection, to find a new kind of intimacy with life. Join Aviv Shahar as he talks with Aud Wilken and Rita Lampen, two life-long artists, about their love of art, the source of their inspiration, and what is possible through a deeper awareness and appreciation of the true nature of living art.
We are starting this conversation about art by entering through a side door and exploring the idea of art as a conversation, an evolving conversation. What comes to mind is that there must be several parties involved to have a conversation. Who or what is "art" talking to? What is passing between us? It’s thinking of art as a space where it becomes possible to inspire, to make contact, to create a new connection, to find a new kind of intimacy with life. Join Aviv Shahar as he talks with Aud Wilken and Rita Lampen, two life-long artists, about their love of art, the source of their inspiration, and what is possible through a deeper awareness and appreciation of the true nature of living art.
02:19 – Aviv Shahar welcomes life-long artists, Aud Wilken and Rita Lampen, who join the show to reflect on what comes alive in them when they hear the phrase, Art as an Evolving Conversation
10:27 – Art as an exploration and a space for connecting with the intimacy of life
15:46 – Art as a liberating force
23:09 – The process of keeping one’s creative pipes clean
27:00 – Aud and Rita speak to the concept of surprising yourself through creativity
35:44 – Aviv expounds on two schools of thought about art
43:46 – Aviv shares a unique story about Al Pacino/What is the essence and motivating presence that comes through art
46:09 – Aud and Rita speak to that moment of connecting with art
50:33 – The reverberating impact that live art can have
55:40 – Escaping success
59:33 – Aviv, Aud, and Rita provide final reflections
“It is an absolute gift, and I think I've always felt great freedom inside of art, and the less I separate them from each other, the more access I feel that I have in myself, to myself, and through myself to other things.” (04:46) (Aud)
“Conversations where you walk and talk, in my experience, are always the most fertile because you’re staying fluid. You’re leaving something behind. You’re leaving a path behind just as the conversation unfolds.” (24:14) (Rita)
“I think this whole aspect of being able to surprise one’s self and look at the page of whatever came out and go, ‘That’s curious. What is that?’ I think that affords a moment of space right there.” (30:42) (Aud)
“Artists can lodge different vitamins in different places where, when we come later on in time and really manage to get in tune with what is locked in there, it becomes alive in the moment. We allow it to look into the now and the now to look into it. So it’s this multi-dimensional access. What an art.” (47:02) (Aud)
“Live art can happen on the stage night after night when the artists are not there saying their lines or singing their songs. They’re actually connecting to what caused, in the first place, that play or that song. And sometimes, on rare occasions, that becomes so inspiring and it develops a life of its own outside of the artist themselves all the way to perhaps become a co-creative piece of art that can emerge with people outside and away from the original instance to now become a communion of many.” (53:26) (Aviv)
“What comes alive in me is also the responsibility of each of us as humans to honor what knocks on our door or what we feel moved by. And to not so quickly measure it against the standards of someone or something else but instead have alive, ongoing inquiries about what is this, what is it for and how can I best serve this?.” (1:06:00) (Aud)