Archive for June, 2010
Arts and Business
Friday, June 11th, 2010Crafts Council
Friday, June 11th, 2010PITT
Friday, June 11th, 2010Meadow Arts
Friday, June 11th, 2010Artlink
Friday, June 11th, 2010Katy Beinart
Friday, June 11th, 2010Katy Beinart is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines themes of history, identity and place. Her practice is research based and site-specific, often evolving through a participatory process. She trained as an architect, and is interested in readings of both built and natural environments
www.axisweb.org/artist/katybeinart
Katy Beinart is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines themes of history, identity and place. Her practice is research based and site-specific, often evolving through a participatory process. She trained as an architect, and is interested in readings of both built and natural environments.
Launch Collaborative
Saturday, June 5th, 2010Stour Valley Arts
Friday, June 4th, 2010OVADA
Friday, June 4th, 2010Eyes, windows to the soul – Céline Siani Djiakoua
Friday, June 4th, 2010
PREVIEW : Friday 18th June 6pm/8pm
LOCATION : 3, The Strand, Longton, Stoke on Trent, ST3 2JF http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3%2C+The+Strand%2C+Stoke-on-Trent%2C+United+Kingdom
PARKING : 3 hours FREE car park at Tesco (park at the very bottom of it and just cross the road).
End of residency opening times : Saturday 19/06, Tuesday 22/06, Thursday 24/06, Friday 25/06, 11am-2pm.
BLOG : http://longhousearcelinesianidjiakoua.blogspot.com/
“Eyes, windows to the soul”, self-initiated and self-founded one month Art residency in an empty shop in Longton, following an Action Research Bursary (Longhouse, West Bromwich). Works poetically drawing metaphors between a shop and an eye and exploring some mechanisms of vision .
“There is a human body when, between the seeing and the seen, between touching and the touched, one eye and the other, between hand and hand, a blending of some sort takes place – when the spark is lit between sensing and sensible (…)”
MERLEAU-PONTY Maurice, “Eye and Mind” in The Primary of Perception, Northwestern University Press, 1964
“One common fallacy is to assume there is an image inside your eyeball, the optical image, exciting photoreceptors on your retina and then that image is transmitted faithfully along a cable called the optic nerve and displayed on a screen called the visual cortex. Now this is obviously a logical fallacy because if you have a screen and an image displayed on a screen in the brain, then you need another little chap in there watching that image, and there is no little chap in your head. And if you think about it, that wouldn’t solve the problem either because then you’d need another little guy in his head looking at the image in his brain and so on and so forth, and you get an endless regress of eyes and images and little people without really solving the problem of perception. So the first thing you have to do to understand perception is to get rid of the idea of images in the brain and think instead of transforms or symbolic representations of objects and events in the external world.”
Synapses and the Self – Lecture by V.S. Ramachandran – BBC 4 – 2003
