Art meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy
In 1990, a five-day panel dialogues event entitled Art meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy (AmSSE) was hosted jointly by the University of Amsterdam and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. It considered the then recent end to the Cold War, and acknowledged the necessity and importance of creativity in light of the social shifts that were occurring.
In the first panel, artist Robert Rauschenberg, scientist David Bohm and spiritual leader the Dalai Lama talked with Russian economist Stanislav Menshikov and came to the slogan ‘From Competition to Compassion’. In the panel discussions that followed the next four days, the artists: John Cage, JCJ van der Heyden, Lawrence Weiner and Marina Abramovic, the scientists, Ilya Prigogine, Francisco Varela, Rupert Sheldrake and Fritjof Capra, the spiritual leaders Huston Smith, Mother Tessa Bielecki, Lama Sogyal Rinpoche and Raimon Panikkar spoke with the economists F. Wilhelm Christiansen, J.M. Pinheiro Neto, Jean-Maxime Léveque and H.J. Witteveen. [1]
- Publications
- Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy: From Competition to Compassion, ed. Louwrien Wijers, Academy Editions, 1996. Contains reports on the meetings in 1990 (held at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and features interviews, essays and artworks by all twenty panelists, who include artists, spiritual leaders, economists and scientists.
- Time Document compiled by Louwrien Wijers, 1998, [2]
- Video interview, 2021, [3]
- See also
