Metamorphosis of Fear

Chrysalis Group hosted by Free Columbia 
The Metamorphosis or Fear - A project incorporating painting, colored light, video, movement, sound, music and social collaboration.
In 1918, at the end of the first world war, Rudolf Steiner gave the musician, composer, and scenery designer Jan Stuten (1890-1948) a task: to create a new, alternative color-art combining sound, colored light, color-movement and colored shadows in a way that would leave the viewer free to interpret what was seen. Steiner gave Stuten in 1919 the theme Metamorphoses of Fear for the first work of this new art form - a theme related to people's experiences from the just-ended world war.

Now a group of artists has come together to take this work further as a collaboration between people and their various media. We plan to work together for the next year experimenting and investigating this work, as well as planning an exhibit and a series of performances in late 2024.

In this Chrysalis group we will present some of our developments, share some music and encourage discussion on the theme. Led by the artists of the "Metamorphosis of Fear Project." This group will take place over four hour-long weekly sessions. 


The group includes:
Loki Anthony ~ Animation
Frank Agrama ~ Colored light
Zuri Burns ~ Overall support
Soren Dietzel ~ Music
Zoï Doehrer ~ Music
Kai Naor ~ Music
Sampsa Pirtola ~ Video
Matt Sawaya ~ Spoken word/music
Laura Summer ~ Painting
Jen Zimberg ~ Music

Date and Time: April 11, 18, 25, & May 2
Thursdays at 1 pm ET/10 am PT for 1 hour via Zoom.
Not able to attend?  This program will be recorded and distributed to all registrants.

Chrysalis Group Contribution:
Suggested: $60
Supporter: $80
Youth and Equity: $45

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Chrysalis Group Series:You can register and pay for this Chrysalis Group as a stand alone course. However, if you would like to do more than one course, save money by registering for the Chrysalis Group Series - a bundle of five courses! Learn more and register for the entire series here.

Contribution: $200 - for access to all five courses, register here.

Meet Your Presenters

Frank Aleph Agrama hails from Hollywood, Frank found a beat to move with in his backyard. Elderberries 3Fold Cafe caught him by surprise over the course of his sleepy yet inspired 20’s. Gradually through a call to friendship and collaboration, the ideals of 3Folding and Community, brought his individualistic creative path into a wider context where life can actually flow! Now permeated by Steiner’s indications, having just graduated from the Waldorf Institute of Southern California, Frank is building spaces for a more beautiful experience of cultural freedom and creative education , through Urban First Aid: Art as Medicine and Youth Section Organizing.

In his early twenties, Soren Dietzel taught himself clarinet and hitchhiked around Europe busking for dinner. He joined an old time blues band called 'The Clover St Cronies' and gigged at bars and parties. He played saxophone in 'Red Mountain' a ten piece indy-circus pop band for roughly 7 years. The band played often in Duluth MN, toured around the Midwest and opened for some prominent groups like 'Low' and 'Cloud Cult.' Soren learned stand up bass to accompany fiddle music for monthly folk dances as well as for weddings. He then went on to start a music studio out of his home called 'The Revolving Parlor.' Community music events were hosted there and he shared comedic music related social media content through that platform. The culmination of this process was a single that he wrote, recorded, and produced entitled 'Red Blood.’ Soren now lives in Philmont, NY where he is the director of the residency program at Free Columbia.

Sampsa Pirtola  is a Finnish video artist and filmmaker. He studied video Art in Royal Art Academy of Sweden and at the department of Time and Space at the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki (UNIARTS).
He is interested in the psychological and sociological dimension of video art and the "humanistic" stream that it carries, together with experimental film, in contrast to the commercially and politically occupied movie and TV industries.
For years Sampsa has been studying the ideas of Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement that saw the possibilities of art and artists through the "extended concept of art", where anything could be seen as art and everyone as an artist. Around the world now people are constantly filming, documenting “the artist” that is potentially in each individual, bursting out spontaneously at times, and in some cases present all the time - helping others to experience the essence of the medium; ‘to see’.
Learn more about Sampsa’s work at www.sampsapirtola.fi and https://vimeo.com/user3464199

Matt Sawaya (aka Matre) is a rapper and singer-songwriter whose work is focused on the transformative power of the arts. With roots in L.A.’s vibrant Hip Hop underground, his genre- bending music has branched out to include collaborations with artists from Latin America, Africa and Europe, exploring the intersections and fusion of many musical styles and lineages. He has collaborated on recordings with artists including Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Myka 9 (Freestyle Fellowship), and Kenyan musical pioneer Ochieng’ Nelly, and has enjoyed live collaborations with artists such as Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam / Sound Garden), and Wayne Kramer (MC5). Matre recently launched Love Bravely, a cross-genre music project and creative community, bringing together collaborations with a wide network of musicians, artists and cultural creatives. His music is available on all streaming platforms and via the Love Bravely Substack page, together with writing pieces and other creative projects at www.lovebravely.substack.com

Laura Summer is co-founder of Free Columbia, an arts and education initiative that includes a full time program based on aesthetic education, contemplative enquiry and action research as well as part time in-person and online courses. It is completely grass roots donation supported and has no set tuitions. Her approach to color is influenced by Beppe Assenza, Rudolf Steiner, and by Goethe’s color theory. She has been working with questions of color and contemporary art for 30 years. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in New York City and at the Sekem Community in Egypt. She has published nine books. She founded two temporary alternative exhibition spaces in Hudson NY, 345 Collaborative Gallery and Raising Matter-this is not a gallery and initiated ART DISPERSAL 2012-21 where over 800 pieces of art by professional artists have been dispersed to the public without set prices. She is currently working to develop Lightforms-Art and Spirit, an art center dedicated to art and spiritual practice.

Other Chrysalis Groups

Goetheanum Windows with John Rollinson
Tuesdays, April 9, 16, 23, 30 at 12:30 ET/9:30 PT
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Why Should I Care About Novalis? with Bruce Donehower
Tuesdays, April 9, 16, 23, 30 at 4:30pm ET/ 1:30 pm PT
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Let the Sunshine In! with The Hummingbird Principle
Fridays, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3 at 2pm ET/1am PT
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A Conversation with Sophia with Laura Scappaticci
Saturdays April 6, 13, 20, May 4- 9am PT/12pm ET
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Poster artwork by Laura Summer