An invitation to sit and observe.

A conversation beyond words:

With every sound an accompanying silence.

 

AIRE (from the Irish ‘attention’ and the Spanish ‘air’) is a practice developed by Óscar Mascareñas and Tony Monahan that has its origins in the idea of inter-being (promoted by Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh), and is grounded in observation through silence, stillness and sound. It is a practice of silence. But not always silent. Of observing (in) silence. But not always silently. An action of poetry, towards poetry. From/in/into stillness.

 

Not entirely an acoustic practice (John Cage – ‘silence is not acoustic, it is a change of mind, a turning around’), it is centred in attention. It is a space for recognising the inter-connection between and inter-being of all things.

 

In this practice what lies outside the observers is re-cognised as something (with)in them (Alan Watts – everything you see you create) and that becomes the state of being, the action from which all other actions emerge.

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In the sharing of this trans-disciplinary practice, the observer at once encounters and becomes the inward creative inquiry of Self that the practice forges. 

 

Presentation, re-presentation and interrogation transfigure into one indivisible, choiceless action: the embodiment of attention; transcending analysis, fragmentation and all forms of intellectual discourse. 

 

AIRE is the surrendering of reason and the suspension of thought that opens up possibility. Emptiness that gives birth to a flux of creative energy. 

 

AIRE is observing as one practices observation.

 

It beckons one to behold