Join IMPULSE Magazine for IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program seeking to build our local IMPULSE community. Each themed conversation will invite our audience to create new, relevant discourse set across partner galleries and project spaces in New York City.

This month’s forum, titled “Dual Principles: Jungian Dichotomies”, will be moderated by Matilda Lin Berke hosted at Arsenal Contemporary (21 Cortlandt Alley, 2nd Floor) in collaboration with Night Gallery, Los Angeles and Pangée, Montreal in conversation with an exhibition of paintings by Darby Milbrath, entitled “The Raving Ones”.

“Dual Principles” will consider Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s description of dichotomies such as The Apollinian and The Dionysian, the aesthetic and the religious and the libidinal and subconscious as they pertain to aesthetics in visual art. Historically, artworks have also been categorically assigned to binaries, such as iconographic and iconoclastic, figurative and abstract, painting and sculpture etc. Contemporary art has arguably progressed beyond strict taxonomic limitations, but at the same time, new rigidities have emerged. To what extent are these binary descriptions useful? In the current moment of contemporary art, how can we apply Jung’s theory to artwork that may challenge the boundaries of these distinctions?

For this edition of IMPULSE Forum, we invite participants to bring an art book with them that feels relevant to the theme. This could be an artist whose work relates to discussion, a book of poetry, a zine, a children's book- you name it! We look forward to seeing what everyone chooses to bring!

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