Playful Eye: Mindful Art Experience Around the World

Now that art museums are closed to the public, we invite you, wherever you may be, to join us in a virtual adventure at exquisite art museums around the world. Combining mindfulness, embodiment and play, the session aims to foster your connection with yourself, art and other participants. Celebrated as in-person workshops in art museums in Germany and Australia, our online experience welcomes everyone with a curious and playful eye. Please consider not participating if you might be uneasy at the prospect of

• interacting with strangers in randomly-matched conversations
• being prompted to move like a sculpture dipped in honey
• experiencing more about yourself than you learn about art

Date and Time:

The session will be held on 10th June at

12-1pm PDT (San Francisco time), which corresponds with

3-4pm EDT (New York time) and 9-10pm CEST (Berlin time)

Facilitators

Michael Garbutt, Ph.D and Nico Roenpagel, Ph.D., first met one auspicious afternoon in Australia about a hundred moons ago. At that time, Michael was - and still is - teaching at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Faculty of Art & Design, while Nico was dancing his PhD at the same institution. Currently, Michael researches the embodied visual experience of art museum visitors and Nico brings compassion-based mindfulness training to companies in Berlin. Sharing a fascination for the contemplative, awakened, and unfolding nature of human experience, their prolific collaboration to date has resulted in a book, a performance, an exhibition … and now The Mindful Eye-Playful Eye Project, which includes art museum workshops, a book and an app in the making.