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Ways of seeing Marc Quinn, We share our chemistry with the stars.
Retronaut picture of eyeSlide2
Mesolithic antler headdress, Star Carr.Slide3Slide4
Ways of seeing : consciousness and artSome questionsIs consciousness a material phenomenon
or are mind and body separate ?
What is it like to be a
bat (or a giant insect) ?
Can art help to answer these questions ?
Classical ways of seeing
Modern ways of seeing
Post modern “Ways of seeing” (Berger)
Contemporary ways of seeing
A
personal perspective !Slide5
What I see, hear, smell, touch, taste.Think
Feel
What YOU see, hear, smell,
touch,taste
Think
Feel
Art
Consciousness
.Slide6
Our journey today.Aristotle and classical beauty.Plato, into the Cave.The MODERN consciousness: Franz Kafka (What is like to be a giant insect).The POST MODERN consciousness: Walter Benjamin (art in the age of mechanical reproduction). Andy Warhol.Shopping and consciousness.John Berger (Ways of seeing).Contemporary artists fusion of technology and metaphysics.
Light and consciousness (today at the Hayward).Some other stuff.Slide7
Classical Beauty and consciousnessSlide8
Plato, the role of art in the RepublicGod The carpenter The artist Slide9
Into the Cave with Plato and his philosophical friends.Slide10
Ways of seeing : consciousness and artSome questionsIs consciousness a material phenomenon
?
What is it like to be a bat
?
Can art help to answer these questions ?
Classical ways of seeing
Modern ways of seeing
Post modern ways of seeing
Contemporary ways of seeing
A
personal perspective !Slide11
Modernism and consciousnessRelativityModern (late 19th century/ 20th Century consciousness). The Outsider. A creative explosion across literature, visual arts and theatre.Slide12
What’s it like to be Franz Kafka ,What is it like to be a giant insect ?Slide13
Kafka’s Metamorphosis (Berkoff)Consciousness beyond “me”.Type:
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Ways of seeing : consciousness and artSome questionsIs consciousness a material phenomenon
?
What is it like to be a bat
?
Can art help to answer these questions ?
Classical ways of seeing
Modern ways of seeing
Post modern ways of seeing
Contemporary ways of seeing
A
personal perspective !Slide15
From Modernism to Walter BenjaminArt in the age of mechanical reproductionFragmented consciousnessSlide16
Walter Benjamin, Concept of HistoryProgress, the preserve of the elite ?Materialism , context, MarxismKabbalah, a mystical view of events ?Collage ?The Messiah ?Brecht and BenjaminFragmentary consciousnessThe Arcade Project, ShoppingSlide17
Shopping as Flaneur, Selfridges Orchard Street, Metaphysics on the high streetSlide18
Katie Paterson, All the dead starsSlide19
Selfridges, Oxford St, from metaphysics to great skin?Slide20
John Berger and “Ways of seeing”.Material consciousnessSlide21
Uccello: George and the Dragon (1470)Slide22
Warhol’s George and the Dragon.Slide23
Warhol’s KafkaSlide24
Ways of seeing : consciousness and artSome questionsIs consciousness a material
phenomenon ?
What is it like to be a bat
?
Can art help to answer these questions ?
Classical ways of seeing
Modern ways of seeing
Post modern ways of seeing
Contemporary ways of seeing (AND PHILOSOPHY
I
N
CONTEMPORARY ART)
A
personal perspective !Slide25
Katie Paterson :What is like to be an Iceberg ?What is it like to the Moon ?Slide26
What is it like to be an Iceberg ?Slide27
What is like to be the moon ?Slide28
What it like to be the moon ?Slide29
Conrad Shawcross, Slow arc inside a cube 4..Plato’s caveSlide30
Christian Boltanski, ChanceFree will (Schopenhauer)Slide31
The red in my head (Qualia).Slide32
The conjunction of mind and body in art and the landscapeDescartes.The conjunction of the mind and body is the Pineal Gland.The conjunction of the metaphysical and the physical.Proof of dualism?WALKINGSlide33
Richard Long A Line Made by Walking (1967)Slide34
Shared ways of seeing, shared consciousness.(Georgian eye jewellery from www.Retronaut.co.uk).Slide35
Some other art and philosophy stuff , hand picked for you !Slide36
Archaeology and consciousnessSlide37Slide38Slide39Slide40
Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, Walter Benjamin, On the concept of history.