The
International Scientific And Social Conference
PROSPECTS FOR CONSERVATION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNITARY
PLANETARY CIVILIZATION
Culture.
Ecology. Cosmos
The UNESCO Programme "Culture of peace
and non-violence"
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PROJECT OF MUSEUM OF THE NEW TYPE,
WHICH FORMS A HARMONIC PERSONALITY
WITH A SYNTHETIC COMPREHANTION
OF THE ENCIRCLING WORLD.
ANNOTATION:
The author of the project, Yuri Kosagovsky,
professionally working in different
professions (art, literature, music, cinematography, writing and reading
lectures in esthetics etc), and having concert and exhibition experience, has
organized a private culture centre,
positioned as a museum with a multipurpose programme
intended to encourage interaction with the audience.
The general aim of the project is to initiate positive
publicity for synthesis approach to man’s
activity, which is considered to be environmentally and biologically
friendly as it satisfies man’s natural cognitive instinct, common to ancient
and primeval societies and disappearing
in modern civilisation. Another aim of the
project is to develop a man into a creator to whom success and ambitions will be of
less importance than broadened knowledge about the world.
Report II
section, 29 of May.
Project of the Museum of the new type, which forms a creative personality, with a synthetic
comprehension of the encircling world. With a priority not of self-affirmation,
but cognition).
In the beginning, I
will say a couple of words about myself, to clarify how I came to the necessity
of launching of such project. In the one hand, I’m artist and my pictures are presented in the majority of
the countries of the world, in another hand, I’m a writer and my works are
printed in
And now let us depict a virtual landscape, in general, with limited facilities of the world we’re living in, and afterwards we’ll probably find a place for such museum.
1. This is a civilized landscape with telegraph-post and electric
cables. The houses are standing, and if we’ll look inside, the lines with
coffee-grinders, computers and refrigerators. This is a civilized landscape
with the safe facades of the concert halls and conservatories, where the
musicians for these halls are taught.
This is a landscape with facades of universities and institutes. This is
the factory of film production, for example, “
But the reality is a bit different.
Everything starts to be far from perfect. Lots of years ago I felt a very sad note, which was made by academician Kitay-Gorodsky. This was in the 60-s, and at that epoch I was awaiting lots of things from academicians. It seemed to me, that the experimental society should be built in some small district, but not in the scale of the whole country and according of the supervision of the academicians, because the Party activists were not quite intelligent. And so that sad note of Kitay-Gorodsky sounded (in a large article in “Literaturnaya Gazeta”), and he wrote: “We teach student for 5 years to be a student, but not a scientific neither engineer, and in when 5 years passed, we have something, which is not needed by the society”.
Afterwards thus resulted that it’s not the problem of our country, but of the whole world. The second sad note sounded in my soul, when I was reading a book of Arthur Onnenger. Who was that Arthur Onnenger? To the prominent people of the time was giving a task to write books: to Niles Bore was given a task to write a book “I’m physicist», to Norbert Winner the theme was marked as “I’m mathematician”, and Arthur Onneger received a theme “I’m composer”. And what was that he wrote in his book? “The only thing what professors of the whole world make in conservatories, that train not to practice music”.
So one of the painful moments of our life is that the specialists, who can’t fulfill their work, but make an imitation, substitute, fill the society. May be this is one of the reasons that receiving inferior spiritual fare, the society is ill, the society is in depression and in total irritation and full of pessimism.
Later I heard the third note (when I lived more in this world). In this note I called “instincts” The civilized man has too many depressed instincts in all its external well being. It is easy to understand by observing the life of primitive people or the border zone of civilization. In the Russian, English or Swedish village etc, we see a poliprofessional human. This is a designer of clothes and dwelling, botanist and engineer, narrator and performer of the first literature performances in the life of new borne infant, astronomer and meteorologist. And all this gets into one person. And thus he lived thousands of years, may be (100-200 thousands years), that was the way he was formed, thus he satisfied his instincts of cognition and activity. But civilization created a comfort for him, putting him into the chair of dependency, dressed in clothes of the obliged ineffectiveness. And he suffers because of the non-satisfaction of his instincts.
Even if he works days and nights as engineer, or doctor or football player, he is deprived to realize himself in all spheres of the regimented society. And he lives not as he got used living for hundreds of years. And he suffers, he is in depression, he is irritated, without seeing the causes.
It’s impossible totally explain the conflicts in the regions of the planet according to the territorial or religious reasons, as well as the aggressiveness of the football fans couldn’t be explained by the poverty and misery, when the depression from non realized instincts is evident.
Let me introduce a
bright example. The Chief of police of
The two problems are combined in a very strange way; the illiteracy in art with a creation of work of art by primitive peoples on the outlying districts of civilization, in the village. But as a matter of fact it is not strange, but natural. Art is a magic thing, which couldn’t be taught in conservatory or by the artistic education. But this magic is available and understandable without preparation to the human, because it was since the ancient time the source of understanding of the world. But the person does not even suspect, as he does not suspect that he is talking by prose and breath by air, without taking in to the account such small detail, he recollects it when drowned or on the verge of a tomb, when the lungs do not function.
Why such non-scientific connotation as magic emerged? It is because of a miracle, when somebody plays with a baby, sitting on the knees and therefore that baby turns to a valuable person, and if his upbringing would be lead by scientific institute with the professional children’s writers and composers, and there would be something defective. This miracle could be called as an intuitive figurative comprehending of the world and intuitive upbringing of a human child.
And one more thing, it reminds a magic and witchcraft, because of a few words, which are nothing if written separately, but transferred in a special order, produce a great impact. We could say, it’s a language of a prehistoric man, the language of an images and intuition, language of programming and self-programming, which was prepared for man by the evolution (during hundreds of thousands years) of its precivilized existance.
At the same time, the magic has its protecting mechanism, to prevent its using in negative purposes – that scheme could be learned not in the high school, but with sympathy. Dostoevsky formulated that in a very interesting way: “If a human fixes an idea, he never reaches that idea, but he reaches an opposite result, but if he aspires merely to the art problems, he reaches that idea”.
During the plenary
meeting we heard a very interesting report of Ms. Sudcha
Rani Gupta from
2. A pattern of reaching of these aims was precise by the evolution and history of the precivilized society of many thousands years. Charity and optimistic comprehension of the world forms in the action and figurative form. When somebody plays with a kid, he reaches that purpose not even thinking of that.
No worries, no disturbances, no thoughts, no
logic, no syntheses nor analysis – therefore not all those negative things and
instruments of logic thought, but consent, joy of agreement, which are implemented
in the words of sympathy.
As every important phenomenon,
intuitive and figurative penetration in to the world is a difficult appearance,
which could be compared with harp, written on the board. There are plenty of
cords in the harp, these cords could be relatively called as cords of, melancholy,
pessimistic relationship to the world; reminiscences, pride, haughtiness,
self-affirmation – the relation to the world as a conqueror, agreement, joy and
tenderness – the joy relation to the world.
By the way the synthetic
comprehension of the world provides a polyphonic activity, which not only deprives
from internal stress by the mechanism of satisfaction of complex of instincts,
not only gives a harmonic participation of a creative personality in this life
of society, but also could give answers for certain gerontology questions.
The cognition and death are easily
linked in our comprehension, if we recall the proverb “The more you know, the
more you grow old”. This has something familiar with the advises of ancient
Chinese: if somebody becomes a famous artist- he needs to change wife, name,
manner of drawing etc. It brings automatically to the continuation of
comprehension and enlarges the temporary bounds of life.
But let us return back to the written on the
desk harp, from all its cords only the cords of the last “octave” make priority
according to their evolutionist nature, and others are additional. You could
easily learn it by looking at the rats, learning a labyrinth, according two
different schemes.
1. With punishment after making the mistake
2. With encouragement after taking a right
decision.
The rats, which take positive
emotions, are learned faster and remember the labyrinth better when the method
of positive emotions is used.
That is why I drew a SUN on the
desk, which symbolizes a figurative thinking, combined with love and coffin
with a cross which symbolizes a mechanic mastering (imitation) by a figurative
thinking, when everything is “dying”.
But does some germs of optimism
exist on this sad landscape? Yes, they are. At the day of opening of the
conference, as you remember, there were plenty of joyful episodes. First of
all, the pianist played some interesting music. I liked it so much, and I came
to him and asked, what was his creative
way. And it resulted that he was a physicist, and then he became a musician. So
he became a musician not only because he was taught, but also because he liked
music. This is a keyword “Love”, because the positive emotions are a basic
linchpin in evolution of living organisms. The second pleasant event occurred
in the hall, where the speeches were preformed, and during the opening of the
conference, the kids in the vivid clothes, symbolized “Spring” and sang a song
“Green carriage”. Who is author? Some bard, and all bards were non-professional
composers and poets – Bulat Okudzhava
was a school teacher, Visotsky was an actor, and an
author of a “Green carriage” was probably an engineer. And the third pleasant
event – they sang a hymn with the words of Lucrecius
and music of Chakovsky. But fortunately the singer
was not Ludmila Zykina, but
Lubov’ Gordina. Why?
Because the priority is not in the professionalism and busyness, but priority
is in love. We could prevent a contradiction, that a polyphonic activity could take
forces, non-focused with a single profession. It is hard to count the final
result and make a formula, it could probably be individual, but we cant not to
take in to the account the inclination to the polyphony of human in general
during the long way of its evolution, and it is more presumable to regard the
world not through one window of the universe but through various windows, to
have an imagination about it in peculiarities, but as a synthesis.
3. We analyzed the mechanisms of suppression (1) of human activity, marked a suppressed instincts and scholastic education, we learned the mechanisms of life-supporting image figurative thinking and polyphonic activity, and also we traces the mechanisms of realization (2) of spiritual ecological method and upbringing, and functioning of a grown up (and all questions of gerontology). And we marked on the sad schematic landscape of our word the germs of optimism and we proposed various positive examples.
4. Now we could say about the museum, this
is a functioning model. As every museum it is needed in support to enlarge the
sphere of the activity. A museum exists for 22 years, and almost 150 works of
art, drafts and sculptures are presented in it, approximately 1000 are in the
store-room, on the basis of the museum was created a cultural center, where
different authors are invited for literature recitals, scientific reading,
musical concerts, demonstration of author’s films and different (with
preference of the polyphonic authors in their activities) not only to influence
by their creative work, but to create a publicity according different methods
in formation of creative personality of new type with a synthetic comprehension
of the world.
Some outdoors performances and
exhibitions are held in Moscow (House of an Artist, House of an Architect, Tretiakov gallery, Litereture museum,
Museum of Sidur[1],
Library of a Foreign Literature, House of Medical personnel, Suicide center, Cardeologic center, International Institute of problems of
management etc) and visits to other cities (Alma-Ata, Tashkent, Riga, Tallinn,
Strasbourg, Warsaw, Dubna, Obninsk,
Peredelkino etc).
And all of that was organized not by the creative unions and not the activities of an author – it is hard to be an entrepreneur, possessing a lot of problems, because the leisure time is wasting not for self-realization, but for another profession (that’s an example when the synthetic way of thinking brings a priority of non self-affirmation, but comprehension), and the organizers of those exhibitions were foreign scientists, writers, linguists, journalists etc and this is valuable and very important, because it says about the necessity of such activity by the society.
As a resume (if we return back once
again to a dark and sad landscape of the encircling world, where we marked the
germs of an optimism) we’ll try to find a place to a museum of the new world,
which forms a synthetic creative thinking. Briefly speaking, museum and
cultural center, as a sailing ship, depicted by the crayon on the desk,
navigates for 22 years with a help of enthusiasm of the author of the project
and people of different professions, in our fatherland, as well as abroad. And
the understanding that the project is needed by the society supports the author
and that he finds his place with his spiritual-ecological incline to this
landscape, and that he has the perspectives in future.
The new ways and forms of forming of
the creative activity with a synthetic comprehension of the encircling world,
could give to future society such engineers as Dostoevsky and Platonov, such doctors as Chechov
and Bulgakov, such lawyers as Chaikovsky,
such officials as Pushkin, and such historians as Gogol. This file of our genius-classics is interesting
because it illustrates the question of polyphonic activity and about synthetic
comprehension of the world through as usual scientific education and mastering
of art not by the method of professional scholastic education, but through
passion and love, Pushkin formulated it in general
like this in the essay about Radishev: “Where is no
love the truth does not exist”.
NOTE:
THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CULTURAL CENTRE
ACCORDING TO THE YEARS:
1964 – CREATION
OF THE MUSEUM AND THE CULTURAL CENTRE
(based on
1964 –
exhibition-concert in cafe “Molodiozhnoe”
1968 – cafe
“Sinia ptitza” (blue bird)
– literary-musical performance
1973 – The
Recreation center of Union of Writers in Peredelkino.
Literary-musical performance (with participation of violinist Galima Mazitova).
1980 –
creation of the Museum and Cultural center (Lenskaya
STR.)
1981 –
Demonstration of the author’s films “Return”, “Christmas”, “The Thoughts of a
fish” in the cafe “Tourist” during the
festival of Jas.
1983-1987 –
Creation of the experimental theatre (the staging of experimental theatre, including “Mozart and Salieri”
and theatre of improvisation with Anatoly Vlasov in
different clubs of
Organization of cycle of recitals of pianist,
laureate of international competitions Vladimir Bunin.
1985 –
Demonstration of the author’s films “Return”, Christmas”, “The Thoughts of a
fish”.
1987-1988 –
The exhibitions-concerts in
1987 – House
of Recreation of Council of Ministers “Voronovo” –
Literary-musical evening with piano improvisations on the themes of spectators,
demonstrations of films and exhibition of Art
- The Recreation center of Union of Writers “Gurzuf”, The Recreation center of Union of Writers “Koktebel”, City Hall of Sudak –
exhibition, performing of the concert for piano N 2, “Crimean prelude”,
improvisation, demonstrations of films.
- House
of a builder of city
1988 –
Central House of arts of
1991 –
Exhibition during the International fair in
- A creative meeting in the Conservatory of
Paris in the name of S. Rachmaninov.
1993 – The
recital on the all Russian festival of verlibre in
the museum of Sidur in Moscow (Yuri Kosagovsky jouneor – reading of
poems, Youri Kosagovsky senior
– demonstration of the author’s films “Returning” and “Christmas”).
1994 –
exhibition and literary-musical evening in the Literary Museum and “Russian lyceum”,
(with participation of E. Kots, D. Ilyn, B. Cetlin, A. Berednikov, U. Nechipurenko, M. Vasilieva and others).
- Musical poetic performance with Alex Alechin.
- Performance on the international festival of
Camera music in the Margins of program of UNESCO “Phianit
star”, (concert for solo ¹2, “Crimean prelude, improvisations on the themes of
spectators, cinematography of authors.
1994 –
Performance of the musical improvisations on the themes of spectators in the
museum together with participator of international festival Mathew Owens (
- Creation of writing of concert
duet (M. Owens-U.Kosagovsky, piano).
- The exhibition in three halls and
literary-musical concert in Russian State Library of foreign literature (with
groups of poets).
1996 – recitles in Chechov center
“Classics of the XXI century”.
1997 – The
evening Evening of poetry combined with Viacheslav Kuprianov in Tretiakov gallery.
- The third exhibition and recital in the
Central House of Artist.
- 2-d exhibition –concert in commemoration of City
Day in Gagarinsky exhibition hall “Ramenky”.
Exhibition-recital in Gallery “Helman” in
1998 –
creation and reading of lectures in aesthetics in the University of Russian Academy
of Education.
1999-
Exhibition-concert in the Central House of Architect.
2000 –
Creation and demonstration of films “Three Novels” (“Breakfast”, “The Box of Dreams”, and “The
Notes of solitaire”) in the Chechov center “Classics
of XXI century”.
2001-1994 –
combined with Rosa Tevosian, author of cycle
“Meetings in Art”.
Organization of the evenings of
poetry in the House of Architects of Alexy Alechin and Olga Kutchkina.
2001 – International foundation of Rolan Bykoff –exhibition and concert combined with chamber ensemble of the
Bolshoi Theatre of Leonid Lundstrem.
– Finishing of cycle of researches-articles in monograph “Various essays” (according to the themes Theatre, Music, Poetry, Aesthetics, Philosophy). Including the articles of Leg Chuchontsev and peculrity of work of Inna Churikova, creative words of Leonid Lundstrem in monograph “Phenomenon of the talking violin”.
1983-2000 –
Creation of Gallery of picturesque graphic portraits of prominent contemporanians (A. Alechin, V.Bunin, A. Vlasov, O. Kuchkina, A.Karpenko, B. Okudzhava, E.Pospelov, A. Solzhenitsin, B.Narbikova, E.Rein, S. Saltykov, R. Tevorsian, R. Elinin, O. Chuhontsev, A. Iakovlev and
others).
2001-2002
– Concerts-recitals of poets and musicians linked with a Jubilee of Museum
and creative activity of poets –Alexy Alechin, Olga Kuchkina, Rosa Tevosian, Olga Pachomova, Olga Panushkina (author’s song), of Yuri Kosagovsky
junior (songs and poems), Olga Ilnitskaya, Yuri Proskurakov, Dmitry Buraga (Ukraine), Raphael Levchin
(USA), Musicians – creative meeting with a composer and pianist Dimitris Arapis (Greece) –
creation of recording of combined improvisations, and also the notes in
literary musical composition “Greek
notebook”, recital of Leonid Lundstrem and Maria Voskresenskaya (violin and piano) and others.
2002 – creation and demonstration of film “The Breakfast
on the grass”.
– Research about the faulty usage of
the old terminology during the transitions to the society with market relationships
in relation to the working professions.
– The reports on the International
scientific-social conference “Perspectives of preservation and development of
united civilization of planet (Culture, ecology, space)”: “Museum of new type,
which forms a harmonic personality with a synthetic comprehension of the
surrounding world”.
2003-4 – The concerts in
