“5 & 1” Exhibition Space: Featuring New Art Movement based on Witnessing Consciousness. I will showcase new art fortnightly here, five artworks which would be in a series either on Music, Art, Mythology, Poetry, Ecology, Spirituality, Folk, Cinema, Theatre, Philosophy with a headlining act which would different from the series showcased. Size, medium and other details will be provided, for anyone interested to purchase. For further details, you can contact at joyr.choudhury@gmail.com (unsolicited emails will not answered, please be patient as there are many requirements for the same artwork, and, at this point due to time constraints I will not be able to repeat one that is already booked or purchased.
Woman in Paris, 1930/A4 acid free paper/Mixed Media (Charcoal and wood pencil)/2024Picasso and Baobabs/A4 Paper/Mixed Media (Charcoal and pencils)/2024Of Birds, Matisse and Songs/A4 Paper/Mixed Media/2024Woman Reading/A4 paper/Mixed Media (Charcoal and pencils)/2024
Teapots, White Clouds and Andre Breton/A4 Acid Free Paper/Mixed Media/2024
Shiva and Mother Annapurna/A4 Paper/Charcoal and Colour Pencils/2024
The next exhibition will be exactly after 2 weeks. Enjoy the show!
– Joy Roy Choudhury, International Communication Consultant, PR & Media Outreach, Consciousness Researcher, Writer, Artist and Musician.
Kolkata International Film Festival 2023, hosted by the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal, was inaugurated by the honourable CM, Sri Mamata Banerjee along with a host of stars including Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan, Sonakshi and Shatrughna Sinha with Sourav Ganguly, former India Cricket Captain, with Sandip Ray, Anjan Dutta and other Tollywood big names including, Prosenjit Chatterjee and others, is meant to stimulate minds of filmmakers and cinema goers over a period of 8 days from 5th Dec to 12th Dec 2023. Such an event, is meant to get all eye balls with many films screened in the international and national level with some special masterclasses arranged by Filmmakers.
Aurelia Mengin French Filmmaker at KIFF 23 with JRC Aurelia Mengin and her cinema of phantastik French Filmmaker Aurelia Mengin’s Film Blue Scarlet at KIFF 2023
In Conversation with French Film Director Aurelia Mengin at KIFF 2023 part 1
Interview Part 2
French filmaker Aurelia Mengin’s movie Scarlet Blue is screened in the international section, a movie 🎥 that takes out a hidden reality within the mundane and re-unfolds the narrative in a dramatic way. To understand and fully appreciate the film, we have to go back to a major event in 2022, when French Physicist Alain Aspect was given Noble Prize in Physics for his pioneering research in areas of quantum physics (quantum technology), a historical moment which brought the scientific community much closer to the daily weirdness of existence where synchronicities, paranormal and psychological aspects are probed with a scientific rigour and with a touch of creative intuition. So, gone are the days when events like clairvoyance or distant healing or past life regression are treated as anomalies or spooky and kept aside for lack of understanding. The understanding of quantum physics directly proves that minds can communicate faster than light with thought-waves which have both dual nature (wave/particle) and reality is not classical in the sense we perceive it. Now a whole new mystical world and its corresponding events are within our grasp of scientific understanding, no more a taboo or magic. While speaking Aurelia Mengin, the filmmaker, she made it specific that her films are about the phantastik which is a broader genre and cultivated with passion over the ages. Scarlet Blue, the film has protagonist who suffers from mental depression and schizophrenia, and, visits a healer who knows hipnosis to cure patients. We are already in the strange world of quantum entanglement, parapsychology. The protagonist comes to know after going through several sessions that her own mother has kept away some secret from her, a truth she needs to understand. While speaking with Aurelia Mengin, about the movie and her interests, it came out that she was fascinated herself by strange processes of healing that exists in French Reunion islands in the Indian Ocean like Madagascar and others. The practice is traditional and sometimes, some liquid is given to patients to heal, or, clear some blockage in the energy bodies, perhaps. Her film Adam and Even which will be shown on 9th Dec, 2023 at Alliance Francise du Bengale, is one such movie that brings a new evocative symbolic style of diving into reality, strangeness added to beauty. Her 2018 film, Fornacis won the first prize in Girona Film Festival, and, she was motivated to start her own festival titled ‘Even not Fear’, which is now one of top ten festivals on film in Europe, a significant achievement by Aurelia, who was her vibrant best in the festival, looked like some character from the beautiful strange world; her father who lived in Paris and also in the islands, probably let her experience both Champs-Élysées lifestyle, and, the quaint faroff flora fauna of the islands where she grew up, with its strange practises and charming beauty bordering on the esoteric, hidden corners of mind and reality. “To grow, one has to come out from their comfort zone and get exposed to different traditions, folk and culture, to be one filmmaker who could tell new narratives in a new style, I have always followed my passion and intuition, and, here I am learning all the time”. She was very engaging in her talk and open with her ideas and influences. I am very fortunate to interact with her, and, hope to play some future role in her own festival. A video interview will be shared soon.
Broken chalice, urns, and crashed warplanes are scattered like ravens feathers heaped on to the burial of the dead
And toys that roll down the ground, unstitched buttons, shards of broken mirror, yellow blue crayons –
all that consume silence and alarms
And far away tolling bells …
The gipsy flowers of a maidenless paradise, they may dream the real unsung song of songs
That day may the conch shell fill the air with amor dei for the human race
When the vapors arise and fall, when the smoke has cleared the daw, born from the calf’s tears at the sight of this horror, horror…(Mistah Kurz – he dead. /Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness)
3 artworks recently done. For exhibitions in Europe pls get in touch at joyr.choudhury@gmail.com or Mr Jeff Ross at London at jeffmross@aol.com Comments from around the 🌎 world on the Art-Consciousness:
“Joy Roy Choudhury works in arts and science to promote a worldview that allows the unification of science and spirituality and offers a new way of looking at life and the universe, I really appreciate this art project based on consciousness and think this is a new art movement that will be across Europe and Asia. ” – Dr. Ulisse Di Corpo, Author Research Specialist on Retrocausality, Statistics, QM and The Idea of Syntropy, Italy.
In the woodcut lithographs and serigraphs in the luminous moons of tetra-aeonic manuscripts, the pulsating pattern of her movement in poise, her dancing feet over icy waters, amazonites, corals, rubies and milkwood roses, strings the lyre’s ephemeral songs
They are sung in the orbs that dazzle in her celestial diadem and in the grasses that hung over blue bells or autumnal seeds
Gazing into the farthest stars and constellations
The Sagittarius in the reticulum of a night owl is the occult sacrifice of rice, grain and pulses They wave their hands to distant galaxies, to many other universes
The Song of Songs is crafted on the bark of a tree, in the Navajo mandalas, in the womb of the urn, in the clay pots that are painted with sparrows, barn owls, barley and wheat With pomegranates and flowers , the little humming bird talks to the rivers that are aspiring to meet the sea: the churning of it, in the glass-hours of dawn will repeat her birth in the meta-pollinating vessels of time over and over…- JRC (Future Poetry)
Comments on present art project: “I have been interacting with Joy and observing his art and the correlations he brings out almost spontaneously – the east and the west entwined in his works, the classical and the quantum world –
The landscape of world art is a network of a binary movement, expansion and contraction, that of causality and retrocausality. The collapse of the mant universal ensembles in the black wholes are portraits of the Krishna strings. The re-emergence of new Stellar nurseries from the white expanses of the inter-galactic infinite are the Sukla sutras. .. Artists around the world have treaded between these greyscales and portrayed the scheme of an intervening vibjyor, the middle part, the visible universe. .. What is the deep underbelly of realization of our Sages, the countless Rishis and Rishikas, is today the very focus of the Quantum and relativistic world, be it Quantum Physics or Quantum electrodynamics. .. Under the apparent surfaces of decomposition and warfare, there is a rise of a powered tide, a new sutra, a new weaving (tantra) of another fresh and bigger Renaissance in the offing. ..
To that Golden Age we reciprocate with full hope of revival, recovery and resurrection.
When the delirium was over The hands that rocked the cradle And held the moon in his locks, Legs that walked on ice and hot desert sands Following the course of the meandering rivers To the rocky caves beneath the sea The rainbow corals and the blue pearl The jaguar fish and the turtles and terrapins
Dripping in the rain when fingers are pointed towards the horizon. The divided lines conjoin to host La Primavera under the canopy of a Brightly lit sky The waxing moon profusely bleeding it’s silvery mist over mountains of gold and copper And crystals like pink argyle diamonds That shine over the serpents head In fire incantations they talk to the mother of the universe Language without verbs become inactive Without nouns there is nothing to name Silence is non action without the doer When it is negated a shining luminous unmistakable presence without any counterparts is readily the reality that engulfed him He saw the coming in and out of multitudinous universes, meta-alorhytmic metaphors dazzling in the elemental poesis of dimensionkesss singularity points .each reverberating with hymns that the tongue tastes while commemorating the diegesis of mantric syllable in the pantomime of characters endless in the theatre that accomodates every act in the domain of speechless causality that time unknown knows not…. Here and now, she may cry again Light a lamp, hold a mirror in her hand Her hair may fall like a shadow of the moon Eclipsing the sun And there will be no language No sign No nothing .but only a luminous presence Seeking darkness that is not there anymore….. Shall you not sing to the glory of this everlasting dawn A moment that stretches to eternity As there is no time Past and future The advanced and retarded waves Have disappeared from the equilibrium Leaving only the ethereal patterns of a pre geometry to weave what it wants to weave A horse, a stallion running over grasslands And she beholds the world her bosom And becomes it infinitely small or big Enduring the cry, the scream The passion and the comic interludes Exchanging flowers the seasons may give In an ovation to her playful caprice She the stillness embodied Waved her hand and kissed the petals That will bear the true love that destiny doesn’t know I may go to slumber again Aeons may pass in a few seconds Distilling time win her cup of wonder She may pluck the grapes and berries Lie on the grass banks near the meadow The sun will rise from her forehead you may not know it And I may sink into deep oblivion The stars may fizzle out one by one Leaving nothing but for her to shine
Sacred Tree at Shri Kunja, Rural Outreach, Tantra Foundation The Green Fields, Shri KunjaMyself with Revered Yang Thang Rinpoche, Yuksum Retreat Joan BaezRani of Jhansi, Kolkata Art circa early 1900Sri Anandamayi MaaSri Sarada Maa with Sister Nivedita Divine Mother, Pondicherry
Blessing of Goddess 🙏 Tara 🙏 while writing this….
Dr. Madhu Khanna, Founder Trustee, Tantra Foundation in interaction with eminent photographer Satyaki Ghosh
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Julia Dream (1968) appeared in Pink Floyd’s 2nd Album Relics – it is as I interpreted it a journey in consciousness and within consciousness – a self enquire through dream images an archetypal journey towards the higher ideals of love and truth. The song comes forth from the relics of human memory etched in the brain as engrams – it is an individual and a universal journey. The opening lines are from a prayer to Devu Annapurna, the primordial mother goddess of harvest (food/Annam), and, Shiva appears before her with a begging bowl to seek alms and blessings, both, non-different from each other, and, beyond causality and space time, but appears for the sake of the drama in a dynamic hologram.
MOTHER Annapurna and Lord Shiva with Begging Bowl
opening prayer
अन्नपूर्णे सदापूर्णे शंकर प्राणवल्लभे । ज्ञान वैराग्य सिध्यर्थं भिक्षां देहिच पार्वति ॥
माता च पार्वती देवी पिता देवो महेश्वरः । बान्धवाः शिवभक्ताश्च स्वदेशो भुवनत्रयम् ॥
From the market square, or, the noisy bazar near you selling every nick knacks to fishes and flower, from the ancient barter system following the historical trade routes to India, the spicy route or silk route, however, you may call it, man’s trading and commerce when it takes a step ahead of the altruistic motif, it goes on into inflation, an usurper of the ego, and, using it as a powerful dynamic artifice to control markets and his wild dreams of chasing after an effervescing elephant, I mean “immortality”, for that, power of new technology, search for exoplanets, and, understanding gnosis is important to man to add to his credentials.
Janis JoplinItaly in Spring with the Ice MeltingVenus or the Morning StarThe Last Supper, da VinciOn the Road Again…JRCTime-Bell and Tree Draped in A Saree, JRCThe Mystic 💙 Bells
He joins the rat race, himself becoming a field rat, testing his own limits, and, cutting off the branch he is sitting on, he forgets that he can grow flowers, sing songs, play guitar, camp outside and be a star gazer….he forgets can work on the synaptic patterns in the brain, study ant behaviour and use bio-mimicry whenever necessary for humanity at large, can use mathematics to study weather patterns, and, all that is good for humanity. But if he fails to find, inspite of all that, the real source of Love, which is the Self abiding in itself not as an object but as pure being-awareness, the reflection of which is in the earth itself, man would falter to protect his sentience, and, then he would degenerate into a living zombie operated by a chain of AI devices. All that Bob Dylan songs, and the kirtans of the Bauls, the songs of troubadours, and the classic repertoire of Mozart, Bach or a Beethoven would confine us each in a solitary cell called Hell or Dante’s Inferno. To get back to Joni Mitchell’s GARDEN we need to find source of a transcendental love, divine love. it is not a magical phenomenon that is hard to acquire, but, practice or sadhana is required. Otherwise, we would still be doing altruistic service like charity, or, helping others with meals, but, in guise of the ego. We would not even know it, it is so subtle, and, causality would bind us forever. It would be work, but, not Karma Yoga which Swami Vivekananda talked about. Doing work, and, not transforming that into karma yoga is like getting fried in a living cauldron where time cooks everything thing from grasses to kings and paupers. This is what Yudhisthira answers the Yaksha in Mahabharata when asked about What’s the News….to be with time is to find compassion and love …..then time would follow you or time would on your side always…..- JRC, Tantra foundation
That Love Cannot Be Brought: Future Poetry, JRC, Tantra Foundation
This is a new channel dedicated to Future Poetry in a build up to Tantra Foundation (2023-2025) programs on Time As. A Changing Landscape” . If you like, pls subscribe to the channel link shared above.
With Swami SwamisarvapriyanandaFrom Jung’s Red BookChandogya Up, picture of Adi Guru Shankara Starry Night, van Gogh painting circa 1888, post-impressionism, River Rhone in France Sri Ramana Marshi, the Sage who was embodied silence itself, Santam, Shivam, Adwaitam
This is short consciousness analogue on the withering human proximity with nature and the complexity of our relationships which result from avidya (ignorance), of not knowing the Being-Awareness which we truly are, right here, right now. Swetaketu reference goes back to Chandogya Upanishad where he comes back after finishing his studies, and, accumulating vast resources of knowledge , almost in every subject from astronomy to mathematics and Sanskrit grammar etc. But when his father, Rishi Uddalaka Aruni asks by knowing what all knowledge gathering is possible, he gets startled, because, he was still thinking of knowledge acquisition as bits of information, let’s say in modern parlance, digital 🥪 crumbs which are neurobiologically stored as memory. We still are in the dark about which part of the brain stores information, or, is it just holographically present all over???? But back to the Upanishads, Swetaketu thinks that there’s no subject which would make all knowing possible, still, thinking in terms of objective knowledge entangled with the triad of knower, knowables, and the knowing or knowledge – it is classical vedanta the triputi of the generated experience. But his father was actually pointing him towards pure being-awareness which makes this epistemic process of knowing possible. So, we are in the realm of non-computability and beyond semiotics of language, into a much dreaded Wittgensteinian silence which we try to fend off, thinking or rather dismissing it as void or empty, and, overlooking the fullness of its beauty in the clear light …
When Man misses this self-enquiry, then the subconscious or the subliminal mind throws up causal chain of desires on the surface mind, prompting him to do, which otherwise, he would have ideally rejected. Intelligent or buddhi takes a back seat, and, it is all controlled by powerful avidya of not knowing the Being-Awareness…
van Gogh’s reference here is a filter to our cognitive decision making which is dominated, and conditioned by falsehood….because every object is an object and further reduced to a mere transactional exchange that lacks sobriety, and compassion….it reiterates that we have moved far away from the archetypes of beauty, love, nobility that had characterised the human sensibility on earth …so this writing is a way of creating a cognitive dissonance which is an entry requirement in a standard operational procedure for taking a quantum leap into the understanding of the ontology of the Self …
Tantra on the Edge: Inspirations and Experiments in 20th Century Indian Art curated by Dr. Madhu Khanna with DAG (Delhi Art Gallery). This is a very brief presentation by Tantra Foundation of the concept exhibition Tantra on the Edge curated by Dr. Madhu Khanna with DAG, it showcases the key concepts of Tantra and how it was integrated slowly into modern Indian contemporary art in the works of great artists like G.R. Santosh, V. Viswanadhan, Shobha Broota, Ettore Sottsass, Ranjit Makkuni, J. Swaminathan, Dr. Sohan Qadri, Satish Gujral, P.T. Reddy, K C.S Paniker,Biren De, S.H. Hazra. Manu Parekh, Jyoti Bhatt, Gogi Saoj Pal and others. ****Kindly note the poster art section here is not included in the Tantra on the Edge curated by Dr. Madhu Khanna supported by DAG This is just an educational understanding of the East-West knowledge transfer and communication that was taking place in the 60s and 70s I referred to here, which had obviously the tantric view of seeing the cosmos as a holistic embedded pattern which has the creative will-force as one of the three cardinalpoints of the triangle.
The Swinging 60s and The Reception of Tantra with Dr. Madhu Khanna, Tantric Scholar, Curator and Founder, The Tantra Foundation, and, Dr Emma Ramos, Curator, South Asia Collections, The British Museum, London and Shri Kishore Singh, Senior VP, Delhi Art Gallery – this wonderful event virtually was organised by DAGPink Floyd Poster Art. The band that thrived on creating an alternative world or a dreamscape with new sound textures and sometimes pure childlike verse and other times reality entangled with space-time architecture warped….that warped curvature gave a non-euclidean geometry to their verses and sound….the rise and fall of a 🌊Shiva Linga, Benaras Stone 20th Century, Collection: National Museum, New Delhi Acc. No: 82.367The Beatles poster: Post-India tour with the inclusion of Sitar Maestro Sri Ravi Shankar, the music became more creative with new explorations in verse and sound. 1967 was the crucial year in world music Grateful Dead poster: The Skull is a deep rooted tantric symbol, in the Tibetan book the dead there is specific mention of 6 bardos or doors the soul (subtle body/linga sarira/karana sarira/causal body) goes through after death….Grateful Dead’s music is magical , it can be so, if one can overcome death in some alternative states of consciousness and that one can do by practicing meditation in daily life. We are all on threshold of Enlightenment, and, the only free particle of time is music….it flows like Jerry’s guitar licks…
This presentation by Tantra Foundation also draws upon tantra in art as a fluid tradition dating back to many centuries and enjoyed permeability and instrumentality across diverse regions, religious faiths – Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, tribal traditions across many cultures in the world from aborigines in Australia to the Red Indians and Shamans in Central America, and, among indigenous people in Mongolia, Tibet etc.
The tantric tradition co-developed parallel to the Vedas, regarded as one of the oldest surviving religious texts in the world (2500-1900 BC) According to Dr. Madhu Khanna ” the tantras re-invented a minimalism that was reductive in nature, abstracting the lissom figure of gods and goddesses, and dematerialising the anthropomorphic figures into pure geometrical symbolic form.
These abstract symbols were playfully or unconsciously appropriated or embodied in the works of various artists in Indian Contemporary Art Scene”. A new addition to this presentation done by Tantra Foundation is based on the influence of Tantra in visual arts in the West, in the UK and the US, that were reflected not only in art but in the music scene that explored the texture of various new sounds and theme based lyrics as concept albums, a wide range of experiments in music itself in live concerts – alluding to the macrocosmic and microcosmic harmony existing in nature, and, trying to present a fresh aesthetic understanding of what man is and his relation with the other/with the cosmic consciousness.
Going to California (you could read Kalifornia has specific creative hotspots which supports music, poetry, art and a thriving pure spirituality . Not a messiah on every street certainly…Joni Mitchell sang “Oh, I wish I had a river/I could skate away on….(River song), one of original female storytellers who travelled with a bag of songs as if she picked berries from the sky…referred by Led Zeppelin in their song Going to California, a classic folk ballad alluding to Joni and at a deeper level the Self Unborn non-dual….a woman never never never born….Kali(Maha-Vidya or The Great Knowledge), Bengal Art Scene: Tantra, The Bengal Chapter Ian Anderson silhouette as Dancing Krishna, Jethro Tull poster art, one of the bands that took music to a new level with influences of folk, nature, and elemental earthly rusticity. We are inventing organic farming in a new way …we are Inventor of the original seed drill instrument, we are the Jethro TullThe Famous Rolling Stones Poster Art
That was prevalent in the London underground scene (UFO club and others) post-Beatles India tour and with the epic release of two great albums in a gap of few months that would define a new outline for music, from the Abbey Road Studios, Beatles’ Sggt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd’s debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967, featuring a great talent that withered away, called Syd Barrett. It is evident that art and music lost their strict boundaries and were overlapped freely under the influence of an Eastern and Western understanding that strived for harmony and progress – relevant is Barrett’s Change Returns Success, Chapter 24 song by Pink Floyd from their 1st album, The Piper. This has the influence of IChing and Ying Yang built into its structure with dreamy lyrics based on Western arrangement of octaves and an original theme which alluded to man’s relation with the cosmos and the metaphysics associated in such ecology. Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull – all these bands and many more brought into the musical scene not only rock b roll but pure untouched reality that breathes into the songs of Bob Dylan, CSNY and Joni Mitchell. The list is endless…..
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