Brainard Carey is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Ann McCoy on ART AND ALCHEMICAL CREATION FOR A WORLD IN THE THROES OF DESTRUCTION
Time: Jul 13, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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This is the fifth and final lecture in a series designed to be an introduction to alchemy as an inner voyage of transformation and a psychological and spiritual quest. We are facing an ecological crisis which may end with our extinction. Alchemical literature is full of images of annihilation where things fall apart and are reconstituted, and where red suns rise over devastated landscapes, only to be reconstituted through alchemical processes. These processes originate in the inner world of
the imagination, and are projected outward onto matter. The alchemical opus is all about the incarnation of spirit into matter. It is this world of the microcosm and macrocosm that artists must reengage. Alchemy provides us with models of creation, cosmogonic symbols, and ways of navigating between the opposites. We are living in an age barren of sacred symbols meaning and spirit. Alchemical literature shows ways to move forward into new life.
Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, (and) art critic, and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. She studied alchemy with Jung’s main disciple C. A. Maier in Zurich for twenty-eight
years.
