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Priya Assal


Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts
priya.assal@gmail.com
assalgheysari.com

5D Higher Consciousness

 

I consider the 15 years (2003-2018) I spent in the United States a period of initiation during which I reclaimed my sense of dignity and gathered valuable resources for creating social impact in Iran where I now live.
My practice finds its joy and meaning at the intersection of Art, Higher Consciousness, and Community Building.
In March 2020, I launched an Arts and Education page on Instagram where I offer weekly talks on issues I find relevant to the current shift of consciousness taking place on Planet Earth.
My overarching intention is to suggest 5D Higher Consciousness as the new fabric of reality in Iran and Iranian culture.
The page @innerjourneypractices offers daily posts that make use of visual language and literature to keep our growing community inspired, empowered, and on track to crossing an unprecedented bridge to the inevitable future ahead of us.

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IGTV Lecture Performance
On Integrity, Dignity, and Reciprocity
Thursday LIVE (#14) with Priya Assal
@innerjourneypractices
June 25, 2020 -Tehran
112 min.

Access to the 5th Dimension"



Self-published article by Priya Assal October 7, 2018 — 5min read

Insight into the concept of multi-dimensionality and humanity's opportunity to cross over from a lower plane of consciousness (3D) to a higher plane of consciousness (5D)



Project Description

The initiative Inner Journey Practices a.k.a “Honar e Seyr e Daroun” aims to support Iranians on their journey to a higher state of consciousness by offering lectures, practical workshops, creative content, and support groups using social media.

Instagram and WhatsApp are the only social media platforms that are not banned in Iran. Consequently, thirty percent of Iran’s eighty million population uses them for everything from entertainment, education, business, and general communication. With an open-source culture and potential for worldwide visibility, Instagram allows artists tremendous agency. In return, audiences can pick and choose whose world they want to be a part of. It works like this:

If you love something, you can bring it into your daily reality. And if you hate something, you never have to know about it.

Instagram allows for independence from institutions, agents, curators, galleries and publications because it enables artists to take on these roles themselves. Artists can even choose from a variety of ways to generate revenue. They can negotiate sales directly with buyers, generate passive income through ads if they manage to gather a large enough following, promote and raise funds for their projects, and pretty much do anything their heart thrives on.

As for me, I chose to make use of this platform to act on the utopian possibility I envision for Iran. With a small team, I now curate and share creative content by a wide range of artists without specific terms of identity such as gender, race, age, nationality, institutional status, or even genre. Our page features the work of authors, painters, sculptors, photographers, performers, designers, and illustrators from all over the world to inspire, empower, and inform our growing community.
If an image can be repurposed to serve our mission, we will humbly and respectfully appropriate it from the creatives we feature. As our code of ethics, we credit everyone and direct our community to delve deeper into their practices by sharing their name and tagging their page and website.

Our specific repurposing approach is to embed text in the images we post.
We’re aware that this is not a typical practice in physical art institutions. However, with its unique vernacular and culture, Instagram allows for the open-source model and collaboration.

The curation of our page is structured to feature four artists per week and one author for a more extended duration. The first and current author we’re working with is Dr. Jaiya John whose original English words can be found in the captions underneath each post.

As an extension to our page, we provide our community further support on WhatsApp by launching a new 21-Day challenge each month. We just concluded our first 21-Day challenge where participants committed to letting go of a destructive habit or implementing a constructive one into their lives. Our facilitators support participants with morning reminders, words of encouragement, check-ins at night, and inspirational video and sound content. To gage our impact, we regularly ask our community to provide us feedback and suggestions.

This month’s 21-Day challenge is titled, “I choose JOY”. In this challenge and opportunity, participants commit to unpacking what Joy means to them, and look for ways to embrace joy in spite of life’s challenges and struggles.

Although this initiative privileges Iranians, I wanted to offer English speakers a window into current Iran, Iranian conversations and the Farsi language by adding subtitles to one of my weekly Thursday LIVE talks on IGTV, and by sharing our Instagram page in this exhibition.

I believe there is no turning back to a pre-pandemic world and that the time is now to co-create new value systems that serve the greater whole.

We all know that transformation does not come without pain. Rebirth does not happen without loss and can feel both exciting and terribly daunting at the same time. My commitment with this initiative is to help make this transition a little easier and even exciting for our growing 5D community.

Welcome to @innerjourneypractices aka “Honor e sayr e daroun”


Downloadable MFA written Thesis

“Home Coming” is the title to my written thesis, which shines a light on my ongoing journey to wholeness and how this journey impacts and plays into the healing of the human collective.

More importantly, it urges readers to consider healing as the most relevant and pressing act of self-determination in our present – day experience of reality.

As I tell my story, I merge two important and overlapping discourses that actively inform each other: the Western Contemporary Art discourse which fuels my art making practice, and the New Earth/New Paradigm discourse which informs my healing practice.





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