Centre for Philosophy and Visual Arts

05/06/2024

'Pasts to Come, Art, Archaeology and Speculative World-Building'

Pasts to Come, Art, Archaeology and Speculative World-Building, explores how the deep past has inspired artists to rethink our relationship to bodies, sexuality, and spirituality.

Read more here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/pasts-to-come-art-archaeology-and-speculative-world-building

26/03/2024

Check out the new book by our board member Ben Ware! On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End is out now with Verso. Read more about it here: https://tinyurl.com/3n6zayrm

11/03/2022

Check out our review, written by Emma Syea, of the latest Louise Bourgeois exhibition. 'The Woven Child' is on at the Hayward Gallery until May 15th. Read Emma's review here:

Spider (1997) Bodies without heads. Heads without bodies. And spiders: huge spiders. ‘The Woven Child’ – The Hayward Gallery’s major retrospective of French-American artist Louise Bourgeois- …

30/06/2021

The Institute of Psychoanalysis are hosting an event featuring our director and some fascinating conversations about disruption - take a look here:

'The more things change, the more they stay the same’, journalist-critic Jean-Baptiste Karr remarked in 1848. Is this true today? Do we want to change? Is disruption an inspirational quality or something destructive? Join philosophers, analysts and artists to debate these questions.

14/06/2021

⚡ Do we ever appreciate a work with a single sensory mode? Does adequate appreciation of (apparently) single sensory artworks (for example, a painting) require input from the other senses?

📍 Register for "Sound Picture" - 10th of July 2021 (on Zoom) and get a chance to think more, question, get puzzled by issues of multi-sensory art.

✍️ By signing up, you will receive access to a vast selection of material uploaded on our website in preparation for the live Q&As in July, including interviews to artists, academics and musicians; pre-watch presentations by the keynote speakers; video-performances.

Welcome to the registration page for the conference “Sound Pictures”, which will be held on Zoom on Saturday the 10th of July from 4 pm to 7 pm (UK time). By registering, you will recei…

19/05/2021

⚡ Imagine a sculpture made to be heard, or a picture that can be played on a banjo. Although many artworks are multi-sensory in the sense that they invite appreciation by sight, sound, movement and even touch (e.g film and immersive theatre) it might seem odd to say a simple drawing is genuinely multisensory.

💫 But, given that multi-sensory appreciation is held to be ‘the rule and not the exception in perception’ (Shimojo and Shams, 2001) do we ever appreciate a work with a single sensory mode? Does adequate appreciation of (apparently) single sensory artworks (for example, a painting) require input from the other senses?

📍 Organized by the CPVA and generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, "Sound Pictures" is an online conference aimed at discussing the topic of multi-sensory art. To register, follow the link: https://philosophyandvisualarts.com/sound-pictures-registration-page/

📣 With talks by: Mitchell Green (UCONN)

Derek Matravers (OU)

Jenny Judge (NYU)

Natalie Bowling (Goldsmiths)

Jason Leddington (Bucknell)

20/04/2021

⚠️ CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS! We are presenting "A First Brush with Philosophy", a new exciting and inter-disciplinary project organized by the CPVA. Anyone can apply!

🎙A CONVERSATION: In a series of videos, we will observe a conversation between you (an interlocutor with little or no experience in philosophy, who is curious about it) and an expert philosopher on a chosen topic among Love, Anxiety, and Moral Growth. Is Love Moral? What Is Anxiety? How May I Maximize My Moral Growth? The philosopher will guide you through these puzzles, and together you'll look for an answer.

🎨 AN ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT: Can we visualize a moment of new understanding? While the discussion goes, an artist will make a live portrait of you, trying to grasp the "a-ah" moment.

💭 A PHILOSOPHICAL TEST: Does philosophy really work in solving problems? The philosophy toolbox is tested in action: you will be able to assess whether it allows to unpack complex issues and suggest practical solutions.

📍 If you are interested and want to apply (by the 9th of May), follow the link:

https://philosophyandvisualarts.com/a-first-brush-with-philosophy/

11/03/2019

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