Symbolic Universes of Art in Society

Marc Antoine Campill is a Ph.D. student in psychology at the Università degli Studi di Salerno, italy. His current field interests are influenced by the cultural psychological understandings of the “individuum”, bonded to the inner identification process and meaning generation –- concerning constructs such as pleromatic, Imagination, and MyCu-cultivation. He is dedicated to generating new psychological perspectives by transdisciplinary, integrating the social construction of common knowledge and the scientific meaning of other Naturwissenschaften into the contemporary psychological field. Main focus in his current works are new ways to approach art as science. Katrin Kullasepp is Associate Professor at the School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Estonia. Dr. Kullasepp’s scientific interests concern cultural psychology and her research focuses on development of identity, including students’ professional identity construction and national identity formation.  Lia da Rocha Lordelo is Professor of Artistic Languages and Psychology at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA/UEFS). She has a master’s in education, philosophy and history of the sciences  (2007), and a doctorate in social psychology from the graduate program in psychology of UFBA. She has experience and training in performing arts, mainly through the group Dimenti, and for more than 15 years has been an actress, dancer, and singer in artistic performances.

• Introduction.- Symbolic universes in transition: Value of Art & Artist.- Hyper-Generalized Encodings.- The Making of a Heroine: The power of beauty.- Head on a Plate: The making of a social representation.- From Desire to Revenge: Psychology of affective reversals.- Memento Mori: Signs of Death in Artworks from Europe.- Breaking Out of the Traditional Schemes: Enhancing Individual Symbolism.- Depicting movement in sports photography: projecting individual dynamic context into static artworks.- Externalization of imagination: Where we begin to create our own representations of artwork.- Transdisciplinary awareness for psychology: Art in science.- Where the Sea Turns Yellow: Shimadachi – Awakening to the Shades of Aesthetic Moments of Life.- Fairy tales as cultural resources for children’s emotional development.- From Creative Expression to Art and Transition.- The synthesis of artistic expression and emotion: The ancient Indian concept of Rasa.- Budda versus Hanuman in an existential dilemma: from autoethnographic experience to the creation of a theoretical model.- Making art: creating an alternative world.- Artists in Society.- Choreography as an ethical technology.- Creating common time: shared rhythms and spontaneous musicality in Latin American cities' 'old centres'.- Not clear enough: the return of the discourse in lecture-performances in Brazil.- Discussion.- The Complexity of Symbolic Universes: Where we transform while being in transition.