The historical aspects of the theme. Actuality
Authentic cultures, as well, as the
ancient formations of world outlook,
Sometimes we are not even aware, how much modern events, political or cultural, are invisibly influenced by prehistoric patterns, deeply rooted in collective memory. Authentic traditions are invisibly still influencing the historical present, escaping in some of their features from the superficial, ordinary methods of history deconstructing, avoided from the official stories of historical development. In different historical periods the authorities
were using the most polluted and dark ancient constructions, symbols and
rituals, picking them out of the authentic and traditional cultural contexts,
stimulating collective fear and stagnation,
In most of the cases inherited authentic structures are quite invisible, hidden and even lost in just superficially ordered modernity. In order to make past cultural patterns
less dangerous, actualize, extract important; beneficial for the future
notions, it is important at present time to arise the hidden memories,
to dig out the essential cultural models and to retranslate them through
the actual aesthetical and cultural,
Traditional, authentic art practices can be an endless source for inspiration for the present days cultural activities, in a case if such an inspiration is based not only on a mechanical copying or superficial stylizing, but on the basic, essential cultural notions of these traditions. Only in a very accurate and well reflected way of using, they can be protected from the back looking in a reactionary sense and will put the ancient cultural practices to new original purposes, evoking the complexity of early perceptual experiences in a search for a primary experience and identity.
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