The Art of the Liminal by S. K. Kruse

Drawing on such luminaries as Rudolph Otto, Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, Antoni Gaudi, Hildegard of Bingen, Frederick Nietzsche, and more, S. K. Kruse makes the case that if you want to create Art of any kind you must submerge yourself in the borderlands of your psyche, a liminal interior space where you have access to the conscious and unconscious mind.

Presented by S. K. Kruse to the Guild for Engaged Liminality, September 2023.

0:00 The Art of the Liminal
0:13 Part I: Creator as Liminal Being
0:36 Definition of liminal
1:29 Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
1:45 What did Hemmingway (not) say about writing?
3:17 What does Ray Bradbury say about writing?
3:57 Where did Einstein get his ideas?
4:07 What did Hildegard of Bingen say about using your own voice?
4:28 Part II: Creation as Liminal Process
5:38 What are different ways to think about the Conscious and the Unconscious?
5:50 The Apollonian and the Dionysian in the creation of art
7:34 What is art?
7:41: Part III: Art as Liminal Phenomena
8:02 The gnostic character of art
8:30 What makes art authentic?
9:09 What does Antoni Gaudi say about the creation of art?
9:30 What does Maya Angelou say about the creation of art?
11:23 Part IV: Life as Art
11:35 What is Nietzsche's response to the wisdom of Silenus?
12:46 "Always remember to look for the light!" The Ferryman to his brother Death in Tales From the Liminal