MANIFESTO
ALICE'S KUNST MANIFESTO (concepted 2003, ed. 2014, 2020)
Alice Gannon's oeuvre focuses primarily on exploring the movement of consciousness through contemporary creative artworks.
Alice Kunst is the pen name of Irish-German born artist Alice Gannon (Áilis Ní Fhionnain). I believe in the existence of a tension in energy which determines all space, the end goal of which is to create. I define "creative space" by three co-ordinating containers: space in body, space in mind, and space in soul.
Space in mind: an investigation, research, reflection, interpretation, a bread-crumb exploration connecting to form networks of conscious and unconscious thoughts reforming, expanding and evolving into new perceptions and ideas. The artist provides a suggested concept yet space in mind also involves meeting of minds in space which invariably involves more conception created in the mind-space.
Space in soul: felt-meaning – the experience of being one with oneself and one with everything else. The goal of space in soul is presence - the portal into accessing dimensions of being that access a self-nurturing and untethered energy to full expressive creative freedom, expression; with allowance for forgiveness to fail over and over, to make changes and to re-apply in pursuit of the unspoken, unnoticed/previously non-considered in order it be “made” known/manifested. Soulspace is the deepening and expanding of the endogenous experience of what is and the capacity to receive and reflect one's own authentic experience more fully.
I define the evolving result in consciously bringing together these spaces is to experience the emergent art from what was non-art.
I call this process “space-nesting”. Space-nesting is a process unfolding almost in a sacred ritual that takes place before a birthing can happen. This is central to the idea of how I realize my manifesto. I serve as mid-wife in the birthing process as the co-ordinator of the expression of what's held deeply in the body, mind and soul spaces as they interact with each other.
I see my oeuvre producing like a “space-factory”. Each artwork requires its own unique process of space-nesting in order for it to be manifested. These processes are each unique, sacred, and vital to the authenticity and originality of the created work.
In the words of my fellow artist and aunt (thank you Anne :-): “context is everything” and this forms an important thread through my works and contributes to why one work varies from one piece and period of work to the next. This is deliberately done as to reflect the continuum of influences, some ancient, some modern, in the co-creation of both the individual's quantum states of consciousness as well as the collective quantum consciousness at large.
While the landscape of context is therefore vast, I am adamant that art or the artist for that matter must not be pigeon-holed into any specific genre, style or issue. To do so is to reduce art and the artist to criteria constricting its very evolution and thereby its contributory relevance. To do that also limits the experience for the viewer. If you reflect on this restriction you realize this completely defeats the whole purpose of art which is to free the person to have a more authentic experience through and with the artwork. If anything the need in today's rapidly changing world of dehumanization and disconnectedness creating deep connection experiences of what it is to feel truly human is more critical than ever. Art can be the medium in which we find ourselves again.
I am not interested solely by reflection of what is, rather what is as yet still unconsciously experienced and provoked through the felt sense of experiencing the making of the art and the individual or the collective who continues the experiencing of the art as the application of art itself as a vehicle or form of "movement of consciousness".
To this end, I believe consciousness is the new frontier in the 21st century and that art plays an important role in this exploration.
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