CLAUDIA BONOLLO: THE IMAGINED BODY AT AIC2021

I was very honoured to have participated as a lecturer with my 20 Anniversary investigation «The Imagined Body» (2001-2021) at the special Session ILA (International Light Association) in the prestigious frame of 14º AIC2021 Congress

August, 31st 2021

https://www.aic2021.org

Cell Tryptic – THE imagined Body – © Claudia Bonollo

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19:15-20:45 

SPECIAL SESSION ILA  (International Light Association)

COLOUR, LIGHT& SOUND: HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR WELLBEING  

Chairs: Vicky Syriopoulou,Jeannette Hanenburg 

Oral:    

Claudia Bonollo	The Imagined Body (2001-2021)
Daniel Asis	Auricular Chromotherapy in the treatment of Psychological Trauma
Arzhan Surazakov	Principles of regenerative therapy with low-intensity laser, colour, ultrasound and magnetic field (coMra)
Abhay Wadhwa	Soul-X: The Experience Center for Mind-Body Harmony
Anadi Martel, Christophe Desteuque	Treating chronic pain and depression with color and sound: recent studies using the Sensora  system

Cellule innamorate (cells in love) – series Metabiologies – © Claudia Bonollo

THE IMAGINED BODY (2001-2021), the experimentation that Claudia Bonollo has been carrying out since 2001 is a multidisciplinary research that has as its object the human body. An emotional research based on colour.

An initially unconscious re-enactment of the cathartic power of art in its broadest sense which also includes music and dramaturgy. The ancient Greek tragedies, as Aristotle explains in his Poetics, help, through the strong events represented, the viewer to detach himself from the passions and daily problems. The same power is attributed to music. In this wake, psychoanalysis, from Freud and Jung onwards, attributes to artistic catharsis the power to free the individual from the emotions that oppress him and to recover vital energies. In ancient Asian, Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, colours were attributed healing power. And even the Greeks, inserting themselves in this millenary tradition, used colors to cure diseases. It is no coincidence that Bonollo’s experimentation is called, at first, «BEAUTY, IS ITSELF A CURE». The diseased cell, now transformed into a healthy coloured cell, infuses new vital energy to the observer.

A research that soon extends to the whole human body, to the study of emotions and happiness. The transfigured cells are transformed into a multidisciplinary project with multiple applications, which borders other disciplines that would seem totally foreign to it: medicine, biology, neurobiology, psychology, psychoanalysis and theology.

«IL CORPO IMMAGINATO» (THE IMAGINED BODY) is now a multimedia project that offers a different point of view on the human body, illness and healing.

From this research, installations are born in which art and architecture are combined, real and virtual elements, spaces in which the senses are stimulated by a perception of well-being.

Transfigured cells become a map of consciousness, biological landscapes are cartographies of being in which the body is represented as a sacred object, sensitive spaces are virtual surroundings, projections where various levels of well-being are experienced, chromatic narratives are short films or experimental techniques of visualization with colours.

Pink Healings – THE IMAGINED BODY – © Claudia Bonollo

The Heart’s Rooms – QUANTUM ROOMS – © Claudia Bonollo

Inner Landscapes – THE IMAGINED BODY – © Claudia Bonollo

Selected by CAMERA (Conseil Audiovisuel Mondial pour les Ètudes et les Réalisations sur l’Art), by the French CNRS (IMAGES ET SCIENCE) in 2001 Claudia Bonollo began a series of multidisciplinary investigations on the cell in Paris, collaborating with professionals from different disciplines.

The studies converge in the multidisciplinary research: LE CORPS IMAGINÉ (The Imagined Body) and still continues today.

I am indebted to the unexpected contributions of professionals from different fields of knowledge (art critics, philosophers, anthropologists, doctors and therapists, shamans, biologists, neurobiologists, mathematicians, physicists, psychoanalysts, psychologists and theologians) who have shown interest in my work. 

A special thanks goes to María Tabuyo and Agustín López Tobayas, translators of Henry Corbin and founders of CEEC (Compared Spiritual Studies Circle). The precious meetings that are held each year at the Franciscan Monastery of San Pedro de Alcantara have allowed me to learn about the incredible work of the Spanish philosophers and scholars from the Universities of Andalusia and Catalonia.

I can’t forget my beloved Dr. Alvine, who I collaborated with, whose luminous presence has accompanied me for several years, she has always encouraged me to continue my research.

And I am deeply grateful to my sister, my Muse, to whom I dedicate my research and to Denis Broduriès, constant presence, for his invaluable and unconditional support.

The Quantum Room – THE IMAGINED BODY – © Claudia Bonollo