Art and Psyche in Sicily
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Art and Psyche in Sicily Layers and Liminality Karen Arm. Untitled 1997 Grand Hotel Minareto, Siracusa, Italy 2 September 2015 – 6 September 2015 www.artandpsycheinsicily.org Information: Mariuccia Tresoldi [email protected] 1 DAY 1: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 1:00-2:15 Registration Opening 2:15-2:45 Welcome from sponsor and honored guests 2:45-3:15 Linda Carter presents Art and Psyche 3:15-3:30 Ami Ronnberg – The Muses – Beings of Liminality Plenary Session I Grand Hotel Il Minareto Moderators: Caterina Vezzoli - Diane Fremont 3:30-4:15 Francesco La Rosa / Pasqualino Ancona - The symbolic relevance of Sicily as a crossroads and container for multiple cultures and civilization 4:15-5:00 Michael Conforti – Sicily: an archetypical image of protecting what is precious – Sicilian spirit – Sicilian soil 5:00-5:45 Douglas Kenning - Sicily: the very land speaks its stories 5:45-6:00 Discussion 6:00-6:20 Coffee Break 6:20-7:05 Daniele Orobello - Create and restore: transformation processes from the spiritual to the material 7:05-7:50 Franco Battiato - Art and Life 7:50-8.10 Discussion 2 9:30 Welcome Party Grand Hotel Minareto with finger food and beverages to all enrolled participants*1 Follows: Evening Event: Cultural Association “Danza e-mozione” The dionisiac dances of Margherita Badalà: Sicilian Traditional Dances “U Ballettu” the Sicilian country dance that since ancient times celebrates sacred rituals dedicated to Demeter and Dionysus, with tambourines, bagpipes and accordion. COMPANY “DANZATARANTA”: Margherita Badalà - dance e mastr’iballu (dance director) Antonio Bellingheri – traditional dance, accordion Stefano Pellegrino – traditional dance, bagpipes Giuseppe Roberto - flute, bagpipes and mouth harp Maura Guerrera – song and tambourine Francesco Salvadore – tambourine 1 Included as specified in the Registration Form 3 DAY 2: Thursday, September 3, 2015 8:00 Bus Transfer to Siracusa 8:30 Guided Tour to the Museo Archeologico “Paolo Orsi”. From Prehistory to the Roman Era, the Archaelogical Museum Paolo Orsi is one of the most important and prestigious museums in Europe for the quality and quantity of its finds and content. Established by Royal Decree in 1878, the Museum is now located at Villa Landolina and named after the great archaeologist Paolo Orsi to whom we owe important discoveries and findings. The building is surrounded by a large green park where archaeological and historical monuments are disseminated. The three floors building is so composed: the basement is designed as an auditorium where you will attend the screening of documentaries in preparation for the visit, the two upper floors are for exhibition spaces. Plenary Session II Auditorium Museo Archeologico “Paolo Orsi” Moderators: Joe Cambray - Francesca Picone 10:00-10:45 Sonu Shamdasani - Symbolic expressions: Jung, Dada, the mandala and the art of the insane 10:45-11:30 SalvinaArtale /SimonaCarfì / Livia Di Stefano - The process of individuation from shapeless to shape. Using art in the training of psychologists and analysts. 11:30-12:15 Ruth Ammann - Reflections on C.G. Jung’s quotation:“But why do I encourage patients to express themselves by means of brush, pencil or pen at all? My prime purpose is to produce an effect.” 12:15-1:00 Joe Goodwin - My life as an artist 1:00-1:45 Kuang Mei-Fun - Ancient Chinese sexual symbolism as an unspoken voice: from the coffin carvings at the Xiaohe Cemetery to the contemporary sculptures of Pan Dao 1:45-2:00 Discussion 4 2:00 Box lunch and bus transfer to the Hotel Break- out sessions (3 rooms – 50 seats each) Room 1 Feminine 3:00-3:30 Joan Golden-Alexis - One face of the liminal - The shadow of the feminine 3:30-3:50 Elena Aragona / Rosalia Novembre – The art of Ariadne’s thread among the space-time of pain 3:50-4:10 Hemmanuel Semilia – The boundary as a meeting line 4:10-4:30 Lucille Bosco – The island seas as image and metaphor and much more… 4:30-4:50 Liz Insogna/Karen Heagle – Goddesss, speak 4:50-5:00 Discussion 5:00-5:30 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 8:00–8:30 Discussion 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner Room 2 Myth, Art and Individuation 3:00-3:30 Anna Maria Costantino – The Balancing Body – a Jungian interpretation of the Butoh Dance 3:30-4:00 Evans Lansing Smith - Goddess of the Mediterranean Soul 5 4:00-4:30 Liliana Liviano Wahba -The archaeology of art: roots and myths restoring identities and the work of Emanoel Araujo 4:30-4:40 Tianlu Chen – Through time and space spark 4:40-5:00 Discussion 5:00-5:30 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 8:00-8:30 Discussion 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner Room 3 Clinical Theory 3:00-3:30 Matthew Bennet – The hierogliph of the human soul: archetypal foundation of character structure 3:30-4:30 Billy Brennan / Christina Griffin / Rachel Newcombe – Facing intimacy: trasversing the legacy of Palermo in history: writing, friendship and the analytic encounter 4:30-4:50 Gabriella Marventano – Photography as archeology of the soul in the therapeutic setting 4:50-5:00 Discussion 5:00 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 6 8:0- 8:30 Discussion 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner Art & Psyche Garden Space 1 3:00-4.00 Antonella Adorisio – Body-psyche archaeology: the archetype of the coniunctio in the Mediterranean area - Workshop 4.00-5.00 Antonella Adorisio – Body-psyche archaeology: the archetype of the coniunctio in the Mediterranean area - Workshop 5:00–5.30 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 8:0- 8:30 Discussion 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner Garden Space 2 3:00–4.00 Caitlin Petersen – The Gap 4:00 – 5:00 Sigrid Moses-Jacobsen / Sarah Johns – Birds – Workshop 5:00-5:30 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 8:0- 8:30 Discussion 7 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner Garden Space 3 3:00-4.00 Deborah Fausch – Shades of red: the color of liminality Workshop 4:00–5:00 Trina Nahm-Mijo - Liminality, lotus and light Workshop 5:00-5.30 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 8:0- 8:30 Discussion 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner Garden Space 4 (veranda) 3:00-4.00 Ryan Bush - Photographing the emergent self – photographing Siracusa 4:00-5:00 Ryan Bush - Photographing the emergent self – photographing Siracusa 4:00-5:00 Coffee break 5:30 Boat transfer to Ortigia 6:00-8:00 Joerg Rasche – St. Francesco and interreligious dialogue – including a Concert in the Church (XIV AD) San Pietro al Carmine in Ortigia 8:00-8:30 Discussion 8:30 Walk to Ristorante Radiko for dinner 8 DAY 3: Friday, September 4, 2015 8:00 Bus transfer to Siracusa 8:30 Guided tour at Siracusa’s Teatro Greco Archaeological Area The Teatro Greco is the greatest example of Greek theatre in the West. It has the distinction of being almost entirely excavated from the rock. In addition to performances, it was the custom for the ancient Greeks to use it for popular assemblies and, in the imperial era circus, it was adapted to games. It is generally accepted by the scholars that the current form dates back to renovation of the years 238 to 215 AD Plenary Session III Teatro Greco Moderators: Linda Carter - Lino Ancona 10:00-10:45 Andreas Jung - Homer's “Achilles’ shield” 10:45-11:30 Joe Cambray - Artistic intuition and the psychoid imagination: bridging symbolic and ecological realities 11:30-12:15 Ann W. Norton – “Lost” and “found”: Archaeology and Meaning 12:15-1:00 Janice Shapiro – A spark off the anvil of Hephaestos: the wounded artist healer 1:00-1:20 Maria Anna Bernasconi - Ruins and leftovers as precious relics - carefully embedded in works of art 1:20-1:40 Francesca Picone /Gabriella Cinà - The Laboratory of Art Therapy at the CIPA Southern Institute: itineraries, graphics, and depth 1:40-2:00 Discussion 2.00 Box lunch and bus transfer to the Hotel 9 Break- out sessions 3:00 - 8:00 In the Hotel Hall an installation by Vera Manzi-Schaft, artist and art historian, greatly inspired by depthpsychology Room 1 Therapeutical Relationship and Art 3:00-3:20 Rachele Bindi - Book therapy and well-being: the concept of “island” in literature and its symbolic function 3:20.3:40 Jean Palmer-Daley – Image as miracle and myth 3:40-4:00 Linda Jacobs – Resurrecting the buried Self: fairy tales and the analytic encounter 4:00-4:20 Rosario Puglisi – Art of word, sound and music in Department of Mental Health 4:20-4:40 Matilda Saldanha Fernandes – Hecate.