Promoting the study of the Spiritual in Art
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The Luigi Pericle archive is located in the Ascona hotel and it is suitable for many types of activities. The Archives regularly hosts students, researchers, archivists, curators and journalists. The available spaces are :
800 m2 of modular rooms equipped for study rooms, seminar rooms, conferences, congresses, banquets, receptions, projections, translations, tournages, fashion shows, shootings and other activities upon request.
68 bedrooms, 3 restaurants, swimming pool, sauna, jacuzzi, massage rooms , small gym space, park and and national park directly accessible from the facility.
Students from all over the world stay at our facility, which provides free accommodation and meals. At the non-profit association Archivio Luigi Pericle it is possible to do university internships, dissertations and study/post-education/work stays in collaboration with your university or research centre.
The archive is located on the hill of Ascona and 5 minutes walk from the seminar center Monte Verità and directly connected with walks in the woods. The tourist and artistic region offers many attractions of all kinds.
Moreover, the archive regularly hosts the meetings of the Theosophical Society and in addition to the countless texts in the archive there is a vast theosophical library.
Our aim is to promote the study of the spiritual in art in collaboration with museums, academies and associations that share our philosophy.
Some examples :
The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with a special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Its open-stack Library, Photographic Collection and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and a prestigious events and publication programme.
Situated within the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP) is the world’s leading institute for academic research and teaching in the field of esotericism. We are currently the only centre in the world providing a complete academic study program in the history of esotericism, from the Bachelor to the PhD level. Our international and interdisciplinary research group delivers cutting-edge research on esoteric currents from Mediterranean antiquity through the medieval world, the Renaissance, and into modern and contemporary times. Our students are invited to engage with ongoing research through teaching modules and tutorials in the MA program. Find out more about our current research projects as well as about how to apply for our study program by following the links on the right.
In line with its history and tradition, the Giorgio Cini Foundation has decided to create the new Study Centre for Comparative Civilisations and Spirituality. The Centre is the natural evolution of the pre-existing “Venice and the East” Institute, which was established in 1958 with the primary aim of promoting the study of the civilisations of India and the Far East and which over the years has been the fulcrum of an incessant dialogue between East and West, as well as a point of reference for scholars from all over the world thanks to its extremely rich library, seminars, conferences and publications. This Centre proposes a comparative approach to the study of different cultures, religions and spiritualities. This comparison is intended as a tool for the promotion of dialogue between civilisations, as an exchange and comparison not only of different notions, but also of different political, theoretical and aesthetic experiences. Among the projects we would like to develop and promote are: mysticism, esotericism, spirituality and popular religion are elusive concepts, which, as Michel De Certeau says, still frighten the epistemology of contemporary social sciences.
Scientification and aestheticisation of ‘esoterism’ in the long 19th century.
The project aims to understand estoeric paradigms no longer as pseudo-religious marginal phenomena, but as manifestations of epistemic forms in the mids of the knowledge culture of modernity. The historical focus is on the “long 19th century”, i.e. on a period from the late 18th to the 20th century, which can – cautiously and generally – be described as the unfolding of ‘modernity’ in the sciences and arts. this kind of contextualisation means understanding esoteric paradigms as variable forms and functions of open and changing programmes and cultures of knowledge. More
Founded on August 6, 1868 as the “Scuola Superiore di Commercio” (Advanced School for Commerce), Ca’ Foscari was the first Italian institution to deal with advanced education in Business and Economics. The original main office is still found in the grand gothic palace “volta de canal” (on the bend of the Grand Canal), in the heart of Venice.
International Headquarters, Adyar
Mission of the Theosophical Society is to serve humanity by cultivating an ever-deepening understanding and realization of the Ageless Wisdom, spiritual self-transformation, and the unity of all life. MORE
Theosophy, Modernism and the arts, c. 1865-1960
This research and networking project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, brings together scholars who are experts on the visual arts, music,sound and literature from all over the world. The network’s events explore what the visual, material and performing arts can tell us about the relationships between Theosophy, modernity and mysticism c. 1875-1960. MORE
Why deny the artistic roots?
“For many years, art historians and critics have resisted the idea that spirituality and Theosophy in particular were the source of inspiration and influenced the birth and development of many artists. MORE
ASCONA AREA IS AN ARTISTIC HUB SINCE 1900
Hotel Ascona hosted and produced Ascona Film Festival : VIDEO PRESTENTATION
The purpose of the initiative is to promote study, spirituality, art and their expressions, as well as their role in culture and social events for development and improvement.
Some pages of easily accessible cultural places or istitutions in our area :
https://www.museoascona.ch/it/
https://www.teatrosanmaterno.ch/it
http://www.eranosfoundation.org/
https://www.isoledibrissago.ti.ch/it/
https://www.elisarion.ch/en/the_sanctuarium.html
The history of ASCONA
Submit your application :
If you wish to spend a period at the non-profit association Archivio Luigi Pericle we provides room and board.
The philosophy of the Luigi Pericle archive research centre is to promote the professional realisation of the most deserving students in an interdisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk concept.
Art, film, literature, architecture, design, culture in its broadest, interdisciplinary and intercultural sense. Interest in the spiritual and in a neo-renaissance conception of transversality are our watchword.
Please fill the form to prepare your study stay.
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And have a look to Annachiara Pelosato‘s master thesis
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