Preconscious Landscape Lectures
Ainalaiyn Space welcomes you to the Preconscious Landscape lecture series.
Each lecture works in dialogue with our group exhibition, Preconscious Landscape, on display until 5th March at Exposed Arts Projects. (6 Drayson Mews, London, W8 4LY) The exhibition navigates questions of liminality, ambiguity and the uncanny in relation to Sigmund Freud’s examination of the preconscious mind and asks how creative practices can illuminate such an elusive concept. Our lecturers have researched psychoanalysis and creative practices extensively, offering our audience the highest level of knowledge and expertise.
These lectures are open for all to attend.
Tuesday 28th February (UK)
Ascent and Descent of the Psyche -
An Alchemical Dance
In this presentation, artist Chantal Powell will take us on a journey into the alchemical process of Circulatio and its corresponding movements of ascent and descent in the Psyche.
Illustrated throughout with images from alchemical manuscripts, her own art practice as well as archetypal symbols from other sources, she invites us to meditate on how we can reconcile our inner opposites by bringing them into consciousness.
Dr Chantal Powell is a UK based artist, curator and educator. A PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy inform her practice. Over recent years she has been researching first hand the imagery in alchemical manuscripts and alchemists’ notebooks from the 15th and 16th century. Chantal is also the founder of the residency program Hogchester Arts in West Dorset and hosts the Jungian online book club and speaker program "The Red Book Club". She presents illustrated talks and workshops on psychological alchemy from an artist's perspective and hosts courses with key educators in the field of Jungian psychology. She has co-curated exhibitions at Arusha Gallery in Bruton, The LightBox Museum in Woking, and Hogchester Arts in West Dorset.