Serafim Seppälä: The Temple of Non-Being

The lecture was a part of the symposium Art Approaching Science and Religion, arranged by AmosLAB (Jan-Erik Andersson, Jan Kenneth Weckman and Bengt Kristensson Uggla) together with the Donner Institute. It took place on 12 May 2016 at Sibelius Museum, Åbo Akademi University.
The symposium aimed at bringing together the fields of art, science and religion. How can science and religion be explored from the perspective of the arts? Themes to be discussed will unwind from and be elaborated on contemporary notions of beauty, ornament, and public art. The public and aesthetic space offer not only timeless objects of appreciation, aesthetic value and use, but also habits and rituals. The aim was to bring out different images of how aesthetics, as a historical and contemporary tradition, is formed together with strands of artist research, art criticism, art history as well as the humanities, philosophy, and religious studies.