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The MA in Visual Arts Practices hosts GradCAM's Speaking Matters programme on Friday 24th October 2008.

Participants include Dr Joseph Cohen, Dept of Philosophy, UCD, who will speak on Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art, Simon Morley, Artist and Theorist, Charlotte Moth, Artist, and Sinéad Hogan, Lecturer in Visual Art Practice, IADT. The session will be chaired by Tim Stott, NCAD research scholar at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. The session hosted by MAVIS at The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1, is in room 7 on the 4th floor, 2-5pm. To reserve a place email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The keyword 'event' has recently entered the lexicon of critical discourse as a term which addresses issues of time, subjectivity and agency. In the work of contemporary thinkers, such as Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, this talk of 'the event' overlaps with a renewal of interest in the messianic writings of St. Paul, and the narrative of his conversion on the road to Damascus. In an attempt to disclose the implications of the conversion as event, Badiou has coined the term 'rupture' to indicate a similar process which occurs in both philosophy and art. Not only within the discourse of the event, but also more broadly, it is notable that there is a current re-invigoration of the long-standing relationship between art and philosophy. This Art/Philosophy seminar aims to address how the notion of 'the event' as defined by Badiou enables connections to be made between artistic and philosophical dicourses.

(Ho Nyn Kairos; 'Now as the Divine Hour', refers to the notion of the "now", a moment in time unique in its potential. This term is described in great detail in Giorgio Agamben's, The Time That Remains, 2005.)

Online Resources:
Giorgio Agamben (2002) 'The time that is left' © 2002. Epoché, Volume 7, Issue 1 (Fall 2002). ISSN 1085-1968.
Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (2007) An introduction to Heidegger.

 
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