RESEARCH
LABORATORIES
This page is dedicated to the presentation of ongoing research/creation paths.
SHARED LABS
Here you will (soon) find descriptions of the practices that we have developed and practice together. There is a constant balance between forging shared instruments and working on our own individual grounds. This equilibrium between together and apart is vital to stay tune both to one another, as well as the space of collective happening.
Practices include (details will arrive soon) :
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Storytelling/Narrative Research
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A circular practice to contact our voice of inner-most desire so that it may be realized fully in a shared imaginal realm.
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Time-Travel Interventions
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Wild play (and disruption) in the causal chain.
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Material-Poetics (Meaning-Making with Matter)
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Cultivating attention to cues in the environment and physical world as gateways of insight.
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"The Team"
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Working with historical, cultural, spiritual, symbolic and imaginary personas and Icons in order to access their specific states and qualities.
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The Oscillation & The Alignment (Radical Creation)
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Theory & Method to train integrative inquiry (the alignment of all capacities towards a similar point-of-devotion, guidance or vision) >> the work towards coherence; and the extension into group synchronization.
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Art as the Science of Freedom
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Unusually-choreographed dinner parties, happenings, adventures, propositions, play; encouraging the space of possibility in both subtle and outrageous experimentation.
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The Monastic Lab (developed in collaboration with Kitty Munichs & Babet te Winkel)
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a proposed frame for being alone together - that is, a structure that protects individual concentration in devoted work, while providing a path for sharing, support, and feedback (inspired by monastic rhythm as it corresponds to individual and collective prayer.)
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WORLDWIDE
INTRODUCTION (Eli Gold)
Simply put : these are the things I love;
things that fascinate, impassion and entrance me.
A mixture of momentary fixations and life-long obsession and recently-arrived companions of wonderment.
These laboratories (containers of encounter, discovery and experimentation) contains substances, tools and methods. They might also be understood as temples, for each introduces a possible point of access, a place of intimacy between soul and substance.
You will notice, though - there are very few tangible and concrete elements in the documents that follow.
(I am a bodily being, but this space here is dedicated to the ideas and language that tickle me into aliveness.)
What you will find here is something like a conceptual map. Just bathe in the language. It’s a river. Not a schematic. Let it in and see which words want to make a home in you. This is a splash-pool of my passion. Please, run around in it. Get wet.
As for the concrete work: I practice through writing (poetry, essays, ir/reverent “sermons”), drawing/painting, performance, video, interactive media, collage, interviews, pilgrimage, storytelling, archetypal analysis, crafting of workshops, and designing of co-creative processes and spaces.
I also believe that daily life and unframed contact participate, too, as grounds of creation. Life-creation. Every encounter presents an opportunity to be with any of these realms-of-inquiry: the Temple Labs.
Note : MythOS and Creators+Creatures are research paths developed and nourished together with Radu.
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INTRODUCTION (Radu Lazar)
Hi! Welcome to the c.universe.3 !
My world. All that I love and cultivate.
The Logical: the principles I hold as true.
The Metaphysical: the fictional spaces and devices I care for.
The Physical: the projects and the research labs I am dedicated to.
(Most of them are developed together with Eli.)
Here you can find some maps to help you orient in this world:
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The first image is the way my human identity, Radu, shows a metaphorical form of my true being (the
faculties of my spirit, RA) and the three realms.
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The second image is a tree-diagram of all the content.
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The third image is a diagram with the 10 Laws. These laws are the truths guiding me in the way I shape my reality. They are intuited by the spirit and the mind, but they become physical if life is truly, radically shaped and shared according to them. (The physical, the objective is distinct from mind only by being established by habit.)
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The fourth image is a representation of the Metaphysical Realm. This is a fictional reality developed within the Narrative Lab. It is cultivated through various contemplative practices and is meant to be integrated with the shared life at La Source, in order to produce a model of non-dual existence, a life in which there is coherence between the deepest spiritual truths and all the other dimensions of existence:emotion, sensation, thought, action, perception, etc.
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The fifth image is a representation of the concrete forms of research, creation that I love, I am dedicated to and wish to invite others in.
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DOCUMENTS
This is a set of documents in which you will find a more comprehensive description of the vision, the three realms, the laws, the purposes, the spaces, the functions, the methods, the practices, the tools, etc.
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The LOGICAL
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The METAPHYSICAL
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The PHYSICAL