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talkPOPc's Podcast
talkPOPc or the Philosophers' Ontological Party club, is a public philosophy + socially engaged art practice non-profit founded by Dr. Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. talkPOPc sponsors one-to-one conversations between a participant and a philosopher (who always dons our amazing gold African king hat!) Various philosophers participate and these conversations happen in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. Various bars, both dives and fancy. We go to Grand Central Station in New York City. We set up shop on the sidewalk outside of City Hall in Philly. We go into bodegas all over Brooklyn. We sit down next to the deli counter and hold a conversation with someone who has walked in to get a ham sandwich and walked out knowing so much more about their own thoughts. We go into city parks or down dead end streets and set up the talkPOPc's tent. We listen. Here are some of those conversations.
talkPOPc's Podcast
Episode #110: In Prague, Alicia speaks about the social, communicative, and spiritual experience of art
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions with Alicia
- 01:05: Art for Alicia, Art influences everywhere. In your soul, in your blood, it's a daily thing, it feeds us
- 02:40: Cinema vs home-viewing during COVID. The atmosphere, the aura is different. The perspective differs.
- 05:00: The majesty of a bigger than life experience. But what does the majesty do for us? Perhaps it's a spark. Transformation through the context of the presentation.
- 08:00: The social experience as a part of consuming Art. Do we need that social exchange to understand what we perceive? The conversation can inform and change perspectives.
- 10:30: Is Art the product itself? Or is it the product and the institutional presentation of the product? There are lessons to be had.
- 12:00: A flower in the pot, perfectly ordinary. But in a different context, it's elevated and part of Art.
- 14:20: Nourishment through Art. Seeing more, feeling more, experiencing something higher.