Phenomenal Museum: The MET

September Edition
Sept 21 11am - 1pm
Sept 22 11am - 1pm
Sept 23 4pm - 6pm
Sept 24 11am -1pm

Phenomenal Museum is a container to reimagine the frame of the museum through conscious place knowing. Museum comes from the Greek Mousein, which means to sit with the muse.  The weight of the museum as an institution today feels very far from the simplicity of that original intention. The dislocation of place post-Covid presents an opportunity to reset how we connect to place and reconnect to the original spirit of the museum. We have a unique opportunity now to reinvent how the museum exists in our minds, our cities, and our culture. The process starts by acknowledging the museum as a steward of the land and the collections that they hold. Join Make Conscious for a phenomenal activation of the one and only Metropolitan Museum of Art, and experience what you thought you knew through a whole new lens.

Participating Artists: Jessica Kung, Lauren Pho, Bo Ting Zhang, Ana Maria Velasco, Ian LC Swordy

Phenomenal Museum
$60.00

  • Sept 20: The Met, The Land, The Muse

    12-2pm EST ONSITE

    • CONNECTING TO THE MET

    • CONNECTING TO THE LAND

    • CONNECTIN TO THE MUSE

      Meet up details emailed upon registration.
      Limited to 20 people in person
      Ticket price includes Museum admission, private tour, and phenomenal museum activation kit!

  • Sept 22: The Tree, The Serpent, The Buddha

    12-2pm EST ONSITE

    • CONNECTING TO THE HISTORY OF THE LAND OF NYC

    • CONNECTING TO THE SACRED MOUNTAINS OF INDIA

    • THE STORY OF THE BUDDHA

    Meet up details emailed upon registration!
    Limited to 20 people
    Ticket price includes Museum admission, private tour, and phenomenal museum activation kit!

A Peek at the Phenomenal Process

Let your gaze settle on the image,

Slowing your relationship to your perception of it

Along with your gaze, feel your body settle, and your breath settle

Feel all three arriving simultaneously

Become like Earth

Allow your eyes to embody the quality of earth, and let the quality of earth to inform your gaze. As you do this, realize that your gaze is an expression of your body.

 

Allow your gaze to become like the quality of earth

Let it be grounded, stable, slow, rooted, and rhythmic

 

Feel this quality of earth arising in both your body and your gaze 

Like you are earth, all the qualities of earth

And look upon this painting like you’re walking on the earth

Slowly moving through it, step by step..

read full transcript of The Gaze