REFLECTIONS
Following questions as dialogue with oneself + dialogue with the world
Engage with my explorations, questions & reflections in social sculpture and connective practice through my writings, exchanges with others, interviews, curated enquiries, research initiatives, pedagogic practices, lecture-actions, & presentations on public platforms.
Sustainability without the I-sense is nonsense: Inner "technologies" for a viable future and the inner dimension of sustainability
Sustainability without the I-sense is nonsense: Inner "technologies" for a viable future and the inner dimension of sustainability
Shelley Sacks: Chapter in book edited by Oliver Parodi & Kaidi Tamm (ed.), Personal Sustainability: Exploring the Far Side of Sustainable Development, Routledge (2018)ISBN: 9781138065086 eISBN: 9781315159997
Social-Aesthetic Strategies for a Change of Heart: The Resurrection of the World in Us
Subtitle: The Resurrection of the World in Us. in Oxford Uni. Press Handbook on Mental Health & Western Aesthetics. Ed. Martin Poltrum et al.
Foreword to What is Art? Conversations with Joseph Beuys. Edited with essays by Volker Harlan.
Shelley Sacks’ introduction to this conversation between Joseph Beuys and Volker Harlan offers a widened view of the aesthetic and insight into the field of social sculpture.
ATLAS of the Poetic Continent – Pathways to Ecological Citizenship
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'The places of the poetic continent are not physical places. They map the internal regions and contours of the inner human being that lives in a cosmos of other beings and life forms. They constellate the places of the soul.' This collection of poetic, philosophical and literary texts and full-colour images offers an ATLAS of the Poetic Continent - a treasure to study, contemplate and inspire action in the world. This ATLAS grew out of a social sculpture process in a city that invited its citizens - individually and collectively - to enter into a process of active reflection on the question 'what am I doing in the world?' This project confirmed that the connection between inner and outer work, and the inner workspace, is central to all social sculpture processes. The maps for this poetic continent open up pathways that enable us to 'come to our senses'. Discovered only in our engagement with the world, and inspired by the constellations of the soul, they offer distilled understandings on the path to a new society: a viable future of free, humane and ecological citizens.
