ARTISTS OF THE BLOOMING
Bringing art, to the heart, of civilisational collapse and change.
Bringing soul and spirit back to the heart of mainstream art.
Rousing RENAISANCE to rouse the heart of humanity through crisis.
Can you hear the sound of RENAISANCE too?
We can hear something stirring in the heart of humanity. Perhaps you can hear it too?
Just whisper it, but the sound of RENAISSANCE is alive on the wind, on the tongues of the poets, and in the ears of lyricists strumming out notes again from the mad, ecstatic vine of the divine.
Artists of the Blooming is responding to this whisper, creating the soil, for artists to come together, and to meet in, and create from, the wild metamorphic fires of our times.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to support people, to become ‘Artists of the Blooming’.
For us, artists of the blooming are artists who are choosing to creatively meet, the falling apart of our world, with equal amounts of beauty, and truth, ferocity and tenderness.
They are artists who able to turn towards the darkness of our world, and at the same time hold a torch, a flame, of hope, for humanity, that this is the tension we have been waiting for, and that collapse is neccessary, to flower the world anew.
We are dedicated to supporting artists to creatively fulfill their role, in the times we are living through, to deepen into the creative practice, their transmissions, and to become torch-bearers, for these times.
FROM THE ASHES
AUTUMN EQUINOX GATHERING
Just before autumn equinox, we are holding a gathering, to experiment with, supporting artists, to tap in, to what it would mean to becoming ‘Artists of the Blooming’.
Over 4 days and 3 nights, we will dive, into the heart, of crisis, together, asking ourselves, as artists, how do we respond, and create from, the ashes.
Through individual and group inquiry, creative practice, movement and embodiment work, working with collective creative intelligence, and more, our aim is to support artists to individually become a torch-bearer, and to learn how to collectively blaze together.
PILLARS OF OUR WORK AND THE RESIDENCY
THE TORCH-BEARERS
Throughout the ages, through the darkest of times, there have always been artists who have carried the torch for the soul of humanity.
The torch-bearers kept the flame alive through cultures that dampened and suppressed it. The torch-bearers lit the way for humanity, giving people hope, a vision for humanity to move towards.
We recognise ourselves as part of a lineage of torchbearers, the current inheritors of the deep and abiding human longings for truth, beauty, freedom, and love.
HEART OF CRISIS
We meet the heart-crack as the place where things break open to break through, and in the recognition that ‘the crack is where the light gets in’.
We recognise that things, our world is breaking down, that grief is fertile, and is the necessary ground for art that has depth, has soul, has life.
We recognise that the alchemy of creativity often comes through transmuting pain to art.
ROUSING RENAISANCE
We work with the spirit of RENAISSANCE, working with the aim of supporting the sparking of a new RENAISSANCE that is inspired by soul and spirit, that rouses the heart of humanity towards beauty, hope, possibility, and that speaks to the human condition in a way that has the capacity to move us, and to support us to remember our true nature.
Just like the torch-bearers before us, we believe it will be the artists, born for these times, who have the capacity to rouse us towards change. It is the artists who sing in, and speak in change and have the ability to cut through the rhetoric, and soundbites of our world, to rouse us towards our common humanity.
The Fall of Rome inside each of us.
Ancient Origins. Working with the story of being human.
Somatic Individualism and Collectivism
Horizontal, Holy, and Vertical Charge - Working with the Vagus.
The Ressurection of the Body - working towards a risen humanity.
Your Time On Earth - Taking back the control of time from cultural conditioning.
Towards group soul, sonics, and harmonics
Working with Somatic Decolonialism
Breaking the Curses of Empire
Standing and Withstanding within the forces of our times.
Belonging - Working with the wound of belonging and radicality.
What does it mean to be a good human, at this time?
WHO WE ARE
We live together on a piece of land outside of Stroud. Radical Human has come from working and listening together to what this specific piece of land wants to call forth from us together as a group of humans who live here.
Each of us holds different influences and perspectives on what it means to be human, at this particular, and we aim to share this confluence with you.
I'm interested in how we might together, create, the radical shift, of western civilisation, from the rubble of our dying paradigm. I'm interested in the power of story, of language, of myth, of song, of sound, to support us to do that.
I'm interested in humanity, and how we are human together, and what these times are calling forth from each of us and how we might meet them together. I'm interested in supporting our cohesion with one another, with life, and supporting people to remember that we re part of life, that we are connected with our world. And I am interested in supporting us to stand, and to stand together for this.
I'm influenced, and inspired by such radical humans and the work of Jem Bendell (Deep Adaption), Joanna Macy (The Work That Reconnects), Satish Kumar, Stephen Harding (The Work of Schumacher College), the artistic and visionary work of Sophie Strand, Bayo Akomolafe, Maya Luna, Ocean Vuong, Mary Oliver, J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, J.R.R Tolkein, Spirit of The Lion, and others.
I'm here for the depth and the risenness of our humanity, the brilliance of our minds, and the rememberance of our souls. And I'm here for art, for creation, from the cracks.
I'm interested in how we can return to treating our bodies as a fertile land and a living library of human stories alive in our bones and blood. How to see it as a direct reflection of our relationship with the Earth and come back into right relationship with her that’s not extractive but reverent of her resources and provision of life. I’m interested in how we bring our spirituality and ritual back to basics and see sacred in all life. Bringing back reverence into mundane existence. Back to experiencing life as a living devotional prayer and our words and actions as embodied scripture.
I'm interested in humanity and what it means to be a good human in these times. How we can turn back to each other rather than look away. In how we come back to seeing human craftsmanship as an expression of art form that we all are. In how we attune back to our nature and understand the thread that we are weaving into the wider human tapestry. I’m interested in understanding how we as humans come back to see ourselves as custodians of this Earth and our civilisation and how we step towards taking responsibility for how we choose to live, create and contribute in this lifetime. In how we choose to build a legacy that lives on. Weaving in the remembrance of the codes of creation that live in our bodies and elemental origins of life infused and penetrated by the spirit.
I am here for breaking the spells and curses of the empire that is a living consciousness that occupies our minds, bodies and history of our bloodlines because they are the river of life and truth that runs through our veins. I am here for dissolving the structures of the empire and exposing of its lies and how it affects our sense of identity, radiance, confidence and courage to live fully expressed in our truth. In our nature. For aligning ourselves with our values and finding the cause that we are willing to fully live for. For breathing life into people and setting their human spirit on fire that burns with wild love for life.
I’m interested in the resurrection of the spirit of life as an embodied way of being and restoration of aliveness through deep intimacy with the soma, prayer and presence of the original Union.
I’m interested in holding point for the choosing of aliveness that penetrates through the spells of the world and advocating for the freedom that gets to become embodied in that choosing.
I’m interested in the place where, through our deep rooting in the body and meeting the sensational experience of life, that we can be liberated from the threads of perception and memory that hold us bound in a distorted view of now.
I’m interested in how we meet here together in an honest, life giving and loving way that breeds restoration, regeneration and regulation. A place where we turn to face each other in deep listening to the flame of life that burns at the core of all of us, that which breathes us and moves us. I’m interested in how we move together rooted and risen.
I’m interested in living in fierce devotion to an inner harmony that restores a deep relationship with, and honouring of, our human family, the land we live on and the light of aliveness that animates us, anchored in the flesh and catching like wild fire in the hearts of those that witness us, touch us and rub up against us.
