BEARTHUMANITY
Be Art Humanity! BEARTHUMANITY is the birth of a new Earth and new Humanity through a new ART.
Art and Manifesto by Anemona CriȘan

BEING means to recognize everything, everyone outside of oneself (no matter if animate or not) as another, equal, Being, with whom we can connect and communicate. This connection takes place on many levels simultaneously: on a mental, word based level, on an emotional level, through feelings and on a physical level through our senses. 

Being is not equal to KNOWING. 
Knowing involves the rational mind, that needs facts, dates, references. It categorizes and splits into boxes, into good and bad.  (Science as a word refers to the process of taking something that is whole, slicing it into pieces, in order to look at a single piece out of the whole, unfortunately without putting the pieces back together). 

Being is holistic and therefore more than knowing. It includes knowledge that we have embodied through our own experience. We all know the difference between an experience we lived through (physically, emotionally, mentally) and an experience we are only reading or told about. BEING is incarnated knowledge, being is to become that knowledge that we experienced through all our filters (physical, emotional, mental). Which also involves facing our unconscious shadow parts.  Without them, we are incomplete and cannot fully BEcome. Being is a conscious state, a state that emerges from the integrated conscious and unconscious and thus has access to our full potential. 

The conscious Being is the „I Am“. The Being in a state of individuation, that is in full awareness of and responsibility for itself yet simultaneously aware of its connection to everything else on all levels. 

BEING is a prerequisite to ARTmaking which is the practice of exploration and expression of the connection and communication from BEING to BEING.  

Art emerges from this state of BEING, a connection that involves mental, emotional and physical dimensions.  

ART is the expression of this connection in different forms and shapes.  

In order for ART to fulfill this purpose, artists need to cultivate their state of BEING and therefore of connection to these levels within themselves. Only then, a connection with others can take place on all levels, that can then be expressed in a holistic artistic way. If you take out one level, the resulting artwork will not be a full BEING.  

BEING is related to being alive. Yes. Artworks are living beings, yet only if they are addressed and expressed on all dimensions. 

As a consequence Art is a metaphysical technology, that helps the artist and the viewer to re-connect and become conscious of  their own multi-dimensionality while remembering their own integral state of BEING. 

A Being of integrity in the truest sense of the word.

Let’s start with the obvious: We are made of Earth's atoms, molecules, we live on Earth and consume its resources, including its lifeforms. We have a materialistic view of the Earth and therefore a one dimensional relationship to the Earth. As a result we created a materialistic mess, which we now try to fix in the same way we created it. Yet, something inside tells us, this is not the way to solve and balance the problems which still seem so monumental that we succumb to powerlessness as a result of the current world view. 

Now let’s look at the EARTH from the holistic perspective of BEINGness. Perceiving Earth as a being helps us re-establish a connection with EARTH on all levels, mental, emotional, physical and thus spiritual (a natural state for our ancestors and existing native animistic cultures, who saw/see everything as an animated being, especially EARTH as the Great Mother, Pacha Mama, Gaia, to name a few.) 

Connecting with the Earth in this multidimensional way helps us to ground ourselves into our beingness and overcome the powerlessness that is a side effect of the one sided materialistic view of Earth and live in general. 

We can now approach our existence on EARTH in a holistic way, that addresses the needs of all involved and that comes out of our self realized beingness, that can cope with all issues that arise. 

One essential tool to approach Earth as a being is through ART. More precise: through a new understanding of Art. 

Art itself is a tool to transform thoughts into matter. This is why the word BIRTH /BEARTH is so crucial to the BEARTHUMANITY concept, me as an artist and within my art. I see art as the midwife for the new EARTH and a new Humanity.

In this current materialistic, mechanistic, digitalized view, the human is a hardware driven by the latest update of a software programmed by an outside source. It is a concept, that upholds the limited view of humanity we have experienced for millennia, through organized religion, dictatorships and economics: the human, who is dependent on an outside authority. 
 

I, personally, have found this view of the human being limited and frightening. 

However, it's through these contrasting experiences, that we find out what it means, to be human! It is up to us to become aware what image of humanity we carry and create.  

Art has a crucial role to remind us of our humanness, our creative power and our ability to create everything out of our infinite potential. Yes, if we like, we can create a harmonious cyborg society,  we can also create an organic, diverse society that is connected to nature, to earth and to the cosmos. 

I personally find the latter more appealing, however, art can contribute to a balanced outcome in both cases.

Art can give technology a metaphysical layer, a life force that it's lacking at this point in time. 

Remember: Art is a spiritual technology. Put it to good use and consciously co-create the humanity you desire. 

We have a very narrow understanding and experience what Unity actually means in its integral  sense. Viewed through a fragmented, limited persepective, like  economics, unity is understood as Communism, where everyone is forced to be, do, think and behave THE SAME. 

I want to invite you to FEEL into the concept of unity. Rather than perceiving it through a rational and limited perspective, be it political/economical/religious/social or  historical,  perceive it as an infinite ocean, that connects you to everything and everyone else.  A state where you are able to be aware of yourself AND simultaneously of the whole ocean. 

Doing that, you move out of the "either-or" mentality  that separates things, into a state of connectivity, you experience individual beingness and universal unity-consciousness simultaneously. 

You live the polarity without needing the duality, that wants to seperate the sides.