talkPOPc's Podcast
talkPOPc (Philosophers' Ontological Party club), is public philosophy + cognitively-engaged art nonprofit founded by Dr. Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. As a topic-based project (we are now on our fourth) talkPOPc sponsors one-to-one conversations between a participant and a philosopher (who always dons our amazing gold African king hat, along with our mascot Puppet!) These conversations are consensus-building conversations and feed back into Shottenkirk's related artworks and published philosophy. The conversations become collaborative acts of making both philosophy and art. Thus, each topic - #1. nominalism, #2. censorship, #3. art as cognition, and #4 power - has three "pillars" the associated artworks, the published philosophy book, and podcast conversations. Various philosophers participate (see our website talkpopc.org for the list of philosophers) and these conversations happen in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. 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 the MDC prison in Brooklyn and have conversations. We set up in galleries where the artworks and the philosophy are also displayed. And we listen. Here are some of those conversations.
Change happens when people talk.
talkPOPc's Podcast
Episode #94: George Menz on art that is narcissistic or art that is ego-shattering
talkPOPc Participant George Menz talks with Resident Philosopher Dr. Martin Nitsche, Chair of the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague about "art that is narcissistic or art that is ego-shattering" at our summer public philosophy event in Bryant Park.
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions, art preferences, entertainment and diversions vs enlightenment
- 02:00: Difference between cognitive art vs entertainment art might be a matter of narcissism
- 03:50: Do we experience art individually or in a community? On some levels it's individual, but other perspectives are part of it too.
- 05:40: Art as a method of philosophy and social sciences
- 08:30: Art as a scientific method and the capacity in experimentation/laboratory environment. The ability to use different perspectives
- 11:15: To what does art refer in today's age? Does it bring us closer to something else or is it merely self-referential?
- 15:00: The meaning of representation and immediate experience in corporeality. Music as the closest in the corporeal arts
- 17:30: General conclusions and performance. What makes one medium better than others in terms of understanding? Preferences for vision and something is lost if we overplay that hand.