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 #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.