The Porous self crafting an intrinsic Ecological Consciousness through text image and movement

Abstract

My practice only looks at text, image and movement in a limited fashion. Working with porosity and sound, theatre, three-dimensional work, and other forms of art including those that may be created with new media offer multiple possibilities. Practitioners who would like to delve into the framework of porosity could expand it to other art forms. newlinePorosity offers much to extend it in an environmental art education framework. While within my work, I have expanded it through Hindu philosophy and Indian aesthetics, learners from different cultural paradigms would bring their own epistemologies and ontologies. An educational framework that values these plural possibilities rests upon mentors. So it is possible to work with training programs, mentoring programs, projects and apprenticeships that consider the model of porosity for eco-art practices. newlineSome of the key points to consider towards developing educational models of porosity may be newline1. The need for localized aesthetics is critical to develop ecological aesthetic literacy. newline2. Provide meaningful support through self-inquiry and artistic practice as a model to emotional/ psychological paralysis that happens around the ecological crisis. newline3. Work in plural ways with porosity and how it can provide the basis for an ethical, ecological, aesthetic, cultural, and in extension a political self for action in a time of ecological crisis. newlineThe framework of porosity can also be extended towards work in EcoJustice and the arts (Kalyanasundaram 2019). newlineIt is possible to extend studies in the framework and apply it to work of other artists and studies of classical Indian art as well. newlineIt is also possible to revisit and adapt classical Indian theories to more contemporary scenarios, and provide a framework that allows young Indian artists to comprehend their own intuitions and insights and draw richly from their own cultural traditions without feeling pressurized by International ideals or time-bound artistic movements. newline newline