We welcome back our friends The Aletheia Collective for this years festival. Find this exhibition at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre from Weds 22nd June for the duration of the festival & beyond.
For this year’s Harwich Festival, the Aletheia Collective are again creating an interactive exhibition in Room 6, which they hope will be exciting and thought-provoking.
Contributing artists Christine Alexander, Michelle Bowden, Larain Briggs, Daisy Limond, Jamie Limond, Adam Riches and Mark Sampson, are exploring and responding to the philosophical concept of the sublime.
The sublime describes the awe and wonder encountered when faced with that which is challenging or beyond understanding. It defines, for instance, that feeling when you look up to the night sky and wonder about infinity; the exhilaration experienced when watching a fearful storm at sea; the sensation you might feel when encountering dark shadows in the fog or inexplicable, ‘supernatural’ encounters. We have also considered the digital or contemporary sublime where technology has presented a different way for us to experience something awesome and sometimes frightening.
Philosopher Immanuel Kant described it as ‘an attribute of the mind and not of nature’. Edmund Burke defined the sublime as ‘an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling’.
These ideas were inspiration for the artists’ investigation into ‘The Sublime’, expressed through painting, installation and virtual reality.