Leo Plaw, Luke Brown and Jarah Tree will be exhibiting at Luminopolis in London. After showing their artwork in the Liminal Village at the Boom Festival, they were invited to participate in the many faceted event that is Luminopolis. Formerly know as the Synergy Project, it is an indoor festival, combining musicians, Djs, Vjs, performers, and artists from all corners of creativity, joined by various proactive NGO’s and charities with the expressed aim to make a difference.

The events gather some of the UK’s leading creative multimedia organizations joined by international NGO’s such as Oxfam, Survival, Speak, Ecoshelter, WDM, Down2Earth, Greenpeace, Campaign Against Climate Change to provide just the right mix of open hearted enjoyment and meaningful reflection for a new direction.

Luminopolis re-invented the clubbing experience by transforming it into an ‘educational’ tool, associating healthy values of sustainability and social justice to strong role models such as respected artists and performers of the entertainment industry.

The event is on Friday the 3rd at the SeOne Club, located on Weston Street under London Bridge Tube Station.

More information on the Luminopolis website: luminopolis.org

Leo Plaw is one of 50 artists featured in our first publication "Metamorphosis".

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"Stretching out like one of the Buddha's great bejeweled parasols, the term Visionary Art encompasses a wide variety of styles, genres, periods and degrees of abstraction. Definitions abound, but here is my hard crystal: visionary art is art that resonates with visionary experiences, those undeniably powerful eruptions of numinous and multidimensional perception that suggest other orders of reality"

- Erik Davis, 'True Visions'

The Visionary Art Culture Creators discussion panel was presented by the Elvish Nation, Pod Collective, Elfintome and Crystal and Spore. Present at were representatives of a number of Visionary Art Culture Communities, Pod Collective (USA), Elfintome (Canada), Beinart (Australia), Zoetic Art (Galactik), Light Science (Canada), Lila (UK), Spectraleyes (Bali), Nectar Temple (USA), and Visionary Revue (France). They had gathered together to discuss and explore the present and future of the emerging visionary art culture.

Over the course of a week the Liminal Village conference and gallery was visited by many of the 25,000 festival goers from 80 countries. The Liminal Village presented 30 speakers and artists from 23 countries. The intention of this gathering was to create a mosaic message which can open up dialogues on many levels to help give momentum and generate inspiration for visionary art and culture.

In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras.

Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements.

Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is getting connected and with it come undreamed of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution.

Participants in the Visionary Art Culture Creators discussion panel were:

CONCEPT STEWARD AND MC : Delvin Solkinson

DJ : Naasko Wripple

VJ : Sijay James

ART PANEL : Luke Brown, Laurence Caruana, Andrew Jones, Leo Plaw, Carey Thompson,  and Jen Zariat.

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Meta Gallery is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition, “Mapmakers: Visions in Contemporary Art”, a group exhibition featuring 15 artists who work with a common visual language, depicting a vision of the planet, of humanity and of the world unique in contemporary art today. The exhibition is entitled “Mapmakers” simply because the artists in this show are mapmakers. Charting unknown realms of the subconscious and various heightened states of perception, these works are meant as depictions of journeys into new and unexplored realms of consciousness. As Erik Davis wrote in his essay for the catalogue which accompanies the exhibition, “…it is important to consider that these works are, in some ways, documents of experience.” These 15 artists have embarked on a journey to visually define the relationship between rational, cognitive thought and the awe-inspiring, fantastic dream world of the subconscious, inviting the viewer to experience the states of awareness which informed the works of art in the first place.

Mapmakers features works by Cathie Bleck (Cleveland, OH), Luke Brown (Bali, IN), Raul Casillas (Vancouver, BC), Dean Chamberlain (Venice, CA), Alex Grey (Brooklyn, NY), Allyson Grey (Brooklyn, NY), Mark Henson (Upper Lake, CA), Martina Hoffmann (Boulder, CO), Andrew Jones (San Francisco, CA), Kris Kuksi (Hayes, KS), Paul Laffoley (Boston, MA), Mars-1 (San Francisco, CA), Ben Tour (Vancouver, BC), Robert Venosa (Boulder, CO), and Oliver Vernon (Brooklyn, NY).

Located in Toronto’s historic Distillery District, Meta Gallery was founded by Jody Polishchuk with the mandate to use the space as the first forum of its kind, dedicated to exhibiting and documenting this emerging group of innovative artists. Jody has been involved with this art movement in various capacities, devoted to evolving the careers of these artists (as well as others) and sharing their work with the world.

The exhibition will be on view from September 5, (opening reception 7 - 11pm) to October 12, 2008. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-6, and Sunday 12-5.

Meta Gallery

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Boom Festival 2008 is shaping up to be a very potent mix for Visionary arts. The epicentre for this can be found at the Liminal Village where a number of events and activities will take place.

As reported in a previous post the Vision Gallery exhibits Visionary artists from all over the world.

Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann are giving a presentation entitled, "Some History, Thoughts and Images on Visionary Art".

They will also be running a workshop, "Sketching the Fantastic" in which participants will be guided in exploring a simplified, exciting technique which provides a rapid entry into the magic of sketching, as well as allowing access to one's innermost, intuitive visions.  Any and all can participate. Some basic materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own to maximize their creative expression.

The Visionary Art Culture Creators Panel will explore the new world of visionary culture with a fascinating panel discussion about the place where art present meets art future. As a catalytic force in the co-creation of planetary culture, visionary art may be a key to unlocking the secrets of what is to come.

The panel will be moderated by Delvin Solkinson and feature the following speakers, Laurence Caruana, Leo Plaw, Carey Thompson, Luke Brown and Jen Zariat.

The Boom Festival runs from the 11th to the 18th of August, in Portugal.

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News from José Roosevelt:

José Roosevelt will be taking part in the 2nd Festival de l'Art Imaginaire et Fantastique in Beaumont-en-Auge, with an exhibition of paintings, drawings and books. For this event, Les Editions du Canard introduce two new books featuring paintings done between 2003 and 2006.

Other artists exhibiting at the festival are: Alphonse Deglas, Didier Graffet, Fred Be, Matthieu Choteau, Gaelle Tremblay, Eric Staal, Dimitri Hayez, Milo Dias, Marton Takats, Dan Bouchery, and Jacques Fournier.

Festival de l'Art Imaginaire et Fantastique

Beaumont-en-Auge

Normandie, France

9th - 10th of August

José Roosevelt is one of 50 Artists featured in our first publication entitled 'Metamorphosis'.

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This August 11-18th marks the 6th. incarnation of the Boom Festival in Portugal - a massive global trance culture gathering. For the third time at the Boom Festival, the Liminal Village returns presenting the Vision Gallery.

Reflecting the spirit of an art movement that transcends languages, cultures and borders, the In:sights Exhibition is a global collection of visionary artworks celebrating the inspired imagination and reflecting the beauty of our world and of many worlds beyond.

24 artists from around the world are included in this exhibition.

Europe

Laurence Caruana, Leo Plaw, Dennis Konstantin, Luminokaya, Brigid Marlin

South America

Pablo Amaringo, Isabela Hartz

Asia

Satoshi Sakamoto, Luke Brown, Symbolika

Oceania

Andy Thomas, Jarah Tree

Africa

Anton Kononov

North America

Roberto Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Carey Thompson, Simon Haiduk, Victor Olenev, Kathryne June, David Heskin, Andrew Jones, Maura Holden, Xavi, Nemo

In addition the Vision Gallery will feature Europe's first ever visionary hologram exhibit courtesy of Laser Guided Visions.

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