Mudra in Bolognano

BOLOGNANO | ITALY | 2003 | 25, 26, 27 JULY

First “beyond museums, safeguarding art” – international forum of art and culture

Photos by Helene Gritsch

The FREE INTERNATIONAL FORUM – a ten-year, self-managed project, held on 25, 26 and 27 August 2003 in Bolognano (Pescara, Italy) – is the FIRST WORLD FORUM dealing with the different cultural issues of everyday life, thereby extending the vision of Art beyond habitual systems.

The artist Teri Volini took part in the third international forum IN DEFENCE OF HUMANKIND and FOR THE SAFEGUARD OF NATURE with
the video The Rhythm of Fire
and the Mudra JINRUI SOKU KAMI NARI – Humanity is a being of Light –
in the deconsecrated church of Bolognano.

ONENESS.

In line with the previous Symbolic Actions – in particular “The Invisible Real – The Web” – the Artist declares, both directly and subliminally, that each of us belongs to the whole: the connection of microcosm and macrocosm, the union of the living with other beings, human and non-human, with the earth, with the entire universe.

The declaration is expressed through Mudras: a dance of the fingers that moves the energy that sustains us.

Mudras consist of positioning and moving the hands so as to draw mysterious, precious symbols in the air: a special language to activate an equally special communication.

The Performance ONENESS belongs to this research.

The Dance of the fingers

In Mudras the hands change constantly and according to precise rules: in alternating, the Movement creates an invisible but powerful flow of energy that resonates with the highest cosmic energies.

Mudras have the power to penetrate the heart, transmitting knowledge of universal love.

It is a very special knowledge, because it is based on understanding through deep communication rather than on cultural, mental learning.

Teri Volini

A work in synergy with the poem of the same title published in the book UNIVERSI.

Some of Teri’s poems act as a counterpoint to her paintings or performances. Heightening feeling and vision nonetheless leaves the different modes of expression independent of one another: the poems are not meant to describe the other works, nor are the latter meant to illustrate the former. What matters is the balance, the happy union that is created, the synergy that arises, in that attempt to achieve the harmony and beauty at the heart of all Teri’s research.