The North Star Project

“The term that comes to mind is existential alignment - How does that idea surface in the midst of daily issues that consume us from our minds to our spirits to the news headlines?  Its something I've asked myself in different ways for as long as I can remember. “

  • Chuk Obasi

“Our new Insight art project wonders about — and takes seriously — the possibilities of being tugged/ called/ lifted/ moved to transcend our biases and to consent to something more open, loving and inclusive. I find the stories about these moments utterly remarkable.”

  • Vieve Radha Price

This project invites us to artistically explore the everyday possibilities and constraints of being better versions of ourselves amidst the pressures to be diminished by fear, anger and separation. What could be more important than that? 

  • Marnie Jull

Intent and Process

TÉA’s ninth Insight Art project is underway; the focus of the project is Being present to spiritual possibilities. Our intent is to collaboratively create a set of immersive theatrical experiences that will put audience members in touch with their inner capacities for curiosity, compassion, joy, and self-transcendence as a counterpoint to the widespread, contemporary experience of the world that seems increasingly disenchanted, polarized, embattled, and grim. 

The spirit is part of our daily living and part of the world, but it seems we don’t have adequate language or categories to think and talk about it. 

There is a certain problematic and tragic character to this because the spirit helps us to be our best selves, helps us transcend biases, helps us to love, helps us to transcend narrowness and hate. All of which is what we need in the world now more than anything.

With this project we seek to explore the spiritual realism that is present to us all regardless of our religious or metaphysical beliefs. We are looking for the critical grounding of the source of compassion and love, transcendence, courage and hope in today’s dire and conflicted world. The intent of the project is to discover and explore the inner dramas of this quest that we share. What aids it, what blocks it, and ultimately its promise. 

We are interested and committed to discovering, exploring and expressing spiritual experiencing on the personal, social and systemic level and to creating a portal into the hearts and minds of our friends, neighbors, strangers, acquaintances and “the other”. We are interested in what it takes to transcend our biases and habitual patterns – the ones that keep us from being critical, curious, imaginative and conscientious.

Presently, four Insight artists comprise the company, Vieve Radha Price, Chuk Obasi, Chisom Awachie, and Marnie Jull. The company is currently engaged in the first activity of Insight artistry, critical discovering, which includes having Insight conversations with a diverse array of individuals. These conversations are taking place in person in New York City and with people in other states and countries via Zoom. Over the next few months, the company will travel to Raleigh, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, and Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to engage with, and learn from, as many people from different backgrounds as possible.