the CORE team
Eli Gold
founder / director
Eli Gold is an American-born artist, researcher, poet, and analyst, based in France; her interdisciplinary practice explores the collision/confluence of intimacy, transference, and the ineffable urge toward dissolution/union.
Eli proposes participative encounters and shared creative practices which produce art(i)facts : evidences of perceptual-shift. These co-created experiences demand as much from the participant as the artist - by inviting the vulnerability of both*. Eli frames the entirety of lived experience as a creative act, referring to it as the [mise-en-scène of the life-art laboratory]. In this framework of radical inclusion, every moment, gesture, and interaction is imbued with relevance.
Eli is presently working on the reclamation of Prayer as a technology of Theopoiesis - the continuous (re)creation of “God” within the imaginal void. "Prayer must be liberated from its institutional and dogmatic associations; it must circulate freely as an answer to the most profound and essential human need: the need for meaning, and the shared quest towards union beyond the self/other division." Faith, in her lexicon, is understood as the meaning-making-mechanism, the capacity of knowing wherein the sacred is understood as a perpetual invitation in the active shaping of the shared world.​
Eli is the founder and director of La SOURCE. Additionally, she continues to work with clients as an archetypal analyst and psychopoetic consultant.
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*Note: Shared creative practices may also include exchanges with other-than-human interlocutors (this may include architecture, places, objects, animals, and even historical or imaginary figures). These “alter-beings” are differently-present, but no less significant as both collaborators and public.
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Radu Lazar
coordinator of research & documentation
Radu is a writer and an artist. He studied Fine Arts and Philosophy; and has practiced Buddhist meditation for seven years. He has written two books: one a poetical-philosophical exploration of meditative states and the other, a novel that explores the possibility of the natural expansion of human intelligence, using the material world as hardware, as a necessary counterpart to the artificial expansion of intelligence.
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As an artist, Radu has experience with painting Byzantine-style icons, mural fresco-painting for churches, and large, abstract-expressionist paintings. He now experiments with installation, land art, as well as various forms of interventions and performance. He also enjoys drawing and photography.
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He practices various forms of meditation, which are organically integrated into the process of philosophical analysis and creation. He hopes to participate in developing, at La Source, skillful methods that would help integrate the intelligence of matter into a holistic, unified model of human consciousness, thus assisting humanity in its evolution towards a vaster domain of manifestation.
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