Anima: A Transdisciplinary Art-Event

Project available for purchase on Monsoon-Music Record label Bandcamp page: https://monsoon-music.bandcamp.com

Participants:

Debashish Banerji – poetry

Jyoti Naoki Eri – visual art

Andrew Kay – alto & soprano saxophones, percussion, himalayan singing bowls

Jonathan Kay – composition, soprano & tenor saxophones, esraj, audio editing & mixing, video editing

Project Description:

This work is based on a transdisciplinary collaboration/encounter/experiment between visual artist Jyoti Naoki Eri, philosopher-poet Debashish Banerji, musical composition by Jonathan Kay, and music performance by Jonathan and Andrew Kay. The project is comprised of 20 acrylic paintings on the theme of vessel and lotus. The poetry was composed inspired by the series of paintings and published as a book in 2020. In 2021, a graphic musical score composed based on an encounter poetry-art assemblage, and the music was improvised based on this score.

On Anima: “The “vessel” is a seeking for unity, containment. Yet it always has an outside. It has been shaped and can be misshaped or unshaped. It also replicates its shape through time and human civilizations. It is the body, container of infinity or the unlimited finite. It can break if unready to hold infinity and can only be readied by the Mother’s hands. Every human potter approximates it. Every vessel is a shard of an unfinished vessel. The vessel is a womb of infinity and a tomb of infinity. It is empty and full. It is visible and invisible. It is and it is not.” – Debashish Banerji

On Art-Event: An Art-Event draws attention to the ongoing processes of creation. The object that confronts one has arisen from processes of introspection, incubation, interactions, relations, negotiations and responses between faculties, skills, media, individuals and cultures. These heterogenous processes live in it and engage the viewer/listener in an encounter that makes them participants in its open-ended mutually transformative transindividuation.

Websites of Collaborators

Released on Monsoon-Music https://www.monsoon-music.com

Debashish Banerji – https://www.debashishbanerji.com

Jyoti Naoki Eri – https://www.jyotinaokieri.com

Jonathan Kay – https://www.jonathankay.ca

Andrew Kay – https://www.andrew-kay.ca