Consenses
New Lenses. New Language. New Understanding.
About
Welcome to the Consenses Family!
With your support, you're playing a major role in our effort to promote tolerance, equality, understanding, and unity by using art as a language and a lens through which to better see ourselves, each other, and our whole world more expansively and compassionately.
Your generous contribution:
- Builds exhibitions that bring together hundreds of professional artists worldwide—of every medium and genre—to collaborate by interpreting one another's artwork and expressing it in their own medium.
- Produces workshops & concerts that enable artists of every medium to collaborate and democratize art.
- Cultivates shows, documentaries & podcasts that inspire deep insight into humanity and creativity.
- Creates curricula—inspired by Consenses' global creative initiative—which offer students a unique, multidisciplinary approach to building social-emotional skills through the arts.
- Trains teachers to facilitate Consenses courses in their communities that cater to both their unique settings and audiences.
What is Consenses?
Consenses is an artistic game of “Telephone” using every medium of art as a language through which to grow a broader understanding of the world around us. At Consenses, we believe that the nuances of our individual experiences are lost when we use spoken word alone to express ourselves and that more can be revealed working together than fighting for the validity of our singular and limited beliefs.
There are no right or wrong answers here, just different angles of perspective on a greater Truth.
How It Works
Consenses Exhibitions
Since 2012, Consenses’ Founder Sally Taylor, has engaged artists from around the world, of every medium and genre, and brought them together by asking them to interpret one another’s artwork in the vein of a game of “Telephone” and express it in their own medium.
For example: a musician interprets a photograph, a dancer interprets their song, a painter interprets the dance, a perfumer interprets the painting, a poet interprets the perfume and so on until all five senses are represented. In this process, each artist is given seven days to extract the essence of the artwork they are provided and use this work as the catalyst for their own creation, ultimately expressing their raw reactions in the language of their own medium. None of the artists are privy to the identities of the other participants.
Learn More: http://consenses.org/