Conversation with Rev. Patrick Kennedy, a priest in the Christian Community Church, co-director of the seminary for the Christian Community Church, member of the Circle of 7 responsible for overseeing the global direction of the Christian Community Church, and cohost of the podcast, The Light in Everything.
Lecture by Glenn Adamson on the occasion of the exhibition, Infinite Games curated by Mejay Gula at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 26, 2018, followed by a conversation between Adamson and Preus.
Conversation with philosopher Simon Critchley and philosophy professor Bart Schultz.
Talk given inside the Beast by University of Chicago professor of English and Art History, W.J.T Mitchell. Moderated by Bart Schultz, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Introductory remarks on the occasion of The Beast-Herd Mentality opening at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.
The Space of Art featuring Montserrat College of Art, Professor of Kate Farrington in conversation with artist John Preus.
Preus and Farrington will take a close look at The Beast’s distinct physical presence and function as a gathering space for community. They will consider it as an aesthetic space vs. a political space and question how being inside of a work of art (or community) is different than existing outside of it. Does The Beast present a portal to a world of wide ranging ideas or is it an ideological statement? Join our speakers as they go deep on the meaning of the Beast.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
https://soundcloud.com/montserrat-galleries/we-are-the-beast-session-1
The Experience of Art featuring Artist-Philosopher Dr. Jennifer Hall in conversation with Dr. Vidette Asher, Neuroscience Researcher, Peabody Essex Museum.
Hall and Asher will examine the experience of a work of art through their multiple disciplines. Hall is a contemporary visual artist and a philosopher with an expertise in neuroaesthetics and interactive art. Asher’s expertise is behaviors of the animal brain and she will describe experience from a scientific perspective. Questions arise: Where does an experience begin or end? Are the body and mind really two separate parts of a person? How is perception understood? Join our speakers as they discover how neuro-biology may be bound to the art experience.
Thursday, March 1, 2018.
https://soundcloud.com/montserrat-galleries/we-are-the-beast-session-2
Artist Paul Chan discusses his project Volumes, a series of over 1000 paintings made on dismantled nook covers for Documenta 13.
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