The work that will be exhibited in New Media installation is a digital Mandala, created by Art in Regeneration and Hambi Haralambulos., it feautures a series of digital moving image of people from Liverpool communities.
- Hambi is a Liverpool based video artist. His latest work is an installation called the Energy Suite created with OMD and Peter Saville , combining films on four screens of five power generating sites across the NW with newly composed orchestral music by OMD. http://www.fact.tv/ - Hambi is currently beginning work on an Olympic Mandala with the NW athletes that participated in Beijing Olympics. This will be used as a pilot towards creating a huge Mandala for the London Olympics incorporating all of the UK athletes that will be participating -In 2007 he created a series of 26 films which were used as backdrop projections for the OMD reunion world tour Architecture & Morality. He also designed images, which were then projected onto St Georges Hall as part of the 2007 Xmas lights switch on.
- Art in Regeneration is the principal participatory arts development agency for South Liverpool creating quality arts and cultural projects that make a proven difference to peoples lives. AiR offers bespoke creative projects, programmes of work designed to tackle a wide range of social issues. These include projects which tackle urban regeneration, mental health, drug prevention, creative play, environmental arts, community & social cohesion, life long learning and social enterprise that utilise the arts in dynamic ways.
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Wikipedia
Mandala (Sanskrit mandala "essence" + "having" or "containing", also translates as "circle-circumference" or "completion", both derived from the Tibetan term dkyil khor) is a concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism.[1][2] The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.
In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts; as a spiritual teaching tool; for establishing a sacred space; and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." [3] The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self,"[4] and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.[5]
In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective.[citation needed] |
