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Philosophy Cafe
When: Tuesday 18th December 2012 - 8.00-10.00 pm
Where: The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff
Philosophy Cafe is a space for sharing and exploring ideas, which affirms that we are all philosophers, even if we don't quite know it yet. On the third Tuesday of each month, join us in the Cafe Bar at The Gate to listen as speakers introduce insights and invite us to address key problems. The emphasis is on joining in.
Philosophy Cafe starts from the assumption that everyone's viewpoint is potentially a source of illumination. Our ethos is therefore that all opinions are entitled to respect, and that open, friendly discussion, disagreement, and debate is the best way to show them that respect.
Bring an open mind along, and change the way you see the world.
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Next Cardiff Philosophy Cafe
Tuesday 18 December 2012
The Gate, Keppoch St, Cardiff
8.00 - 10.00pm
ARTOLOGY: Interventions and intersections between philosophy, art practice, and biomedical science
ON 18 December 2012, CPC plays host to Dr Jac Saorsa from Cardiff Metropolitan University (http://cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/staff/jacsaorsa/).
"If we observe all forms, especially the organic forms, we find that nothing is permanent, nothing is at rest, nothing concluded, but, on the contrary, that all is in continuous fluctuating movement."
Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants
Dr Saorsa writes: "This talk will address the way in which I, as a visual artist and researcher, engage creatively with the conceptual edifice of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and attempt to put his philosophy into practice. Deleuze provides me with the framework that both supports and challenges my creative ability and integrity, and, in being supported and challenged, I have developed the capacity to challenge in turn. I hold conversations with Deleuze through my work; continuing conversations wherein syntax and meaning ‘de’ and ‘reterritorialise’ as we address the relation between talk and action, between thought and practice. I conceive of ‘process’ as continuous flux.
Through verbalising and reflecting on process I have learned to ‘stammer’ in the Deleuzean ‘vital’ sense of being a foreigner in my own language, and within the perpetuity of process that is characterised in the stammering, the ‘and…and…and…’ I embrace a creative multilingualism in terms of interpenetrative relations between visual language and conventional speech. These relations are inherent and fundamental in my current research, Drawing Women’s Cancer, in which philosophy, art practice, ethnobotany and biomedical science are brought together within an overall ‘narrative’."
Bio:
Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist, writer and researcher in art practice and philosophy. She has exhibited her work and lectured internationally since completing a PhD in Contemporary Drawing Practice at Loughborough University in 2004. She is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University School of Art and Design where she specializes in the theory and practice of drawing.
Recent publications include her second book Narrating the Catastrophe: An Artist’s Dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, 2011, Intellect Books.
http://drawingcancer.wordpress.com
For more information, see the Cardiff Philosophy Cafe website.