Physical Conversations between the East and West
An Arts Based Inquiry into the Cross-Cultural Emotional Climate during a Time of Political Tensions Steve Harvey1, Tony Y Zhou2, E. Connor Kelly3, and Joan Wittig4 1University of Guam, Guam, [...]
“Tears on Flowers”: Worldwide Natural Art Healing
Shaun McNiff, Lesley University “There are tears on the flowers, who feel the times.” Du Fu (712–770), Spring Scene, circa 757 “Tears on the Flowers”: Worldwide Natural Experiments of [...]
Expanding Normality at the Edges of the Art World in China
Shaun McNiff: Please tell us how you both came to exploring the art workshops in China and Japan; how you started to cooperate? How did the 2019 Harvard Asia Center exhibition originate and [...]
Music – Universal Love by Kong Xiang-dong
It is a great honor to be interviewed by CAET, especially during this ongoing COVID19 epidemic worldwide. I would like to share my feelings as a musician about composition correlated with human [...]
Virus — On the Edge of Art & Science, Human Beings & Nature
With the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic in China and spreading out to the world, the public and academics have been discussing the attack of this “new type” of virus on human species and [...]
Ch’i and Artistic Expression
Ch’i and Artistic Expression: An East Asian Worldview that Fits the Creative Process Everywhere Shaun McNiff, Lesley University, USA Abstract In the tradition of ch’i (气), past and present, [...]