Symposium "Borderlands: Art and Neuroscience in Dialogue"
A day of dialogues between art and cognitive science, a series of
moderated discussions, artistic interventions, and celebrations on the
occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Berlin-based Association of
Neuroesthetics. Founding members of the platform - launched in 2008 by Dr.
Alexander Abbushi at Charité Berlin - and leading proponents of
neuroesthetics, cognitive science, philosophy, art, and poetry will
present their perspectives regarding an understanding between those fields
and the need to engage in interdisciplinary collaborations. Borderlands
and crossroads, as feminist Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa has been
suggesting, even if painful and sometimes treacherous places, are sites
for regeneration, nurture and growth.
In a series of presentations and panel discussions, the event will present
reflections and insights at the verge between the arts and the
neurosciences. What does art do to us? What role might neuroscience play
in the understanding of artistic phenomena? How could a dialogue between
neuroscientists and artists be heuristic and not reductive? Can art
instill criticality in neuroscientific research? Which are the limits and
the new challenges of neuroesthetics?
The day will be structured by panel discussions, the first one on reading
poetry through the lense of neuroscience (2 pm), the second one on
transcultural and artistic approaches to psychiatry (3.30 pm) followed by
a celebration of the AoN (5 pm). The evening panel assesses the limits and
future of neuroaesthetics directly (8 pm).
Contributors:
Ulf AMINDE (Berlin), Julia CHRISTENSEN(London), Monica GRECO (London), Ana
GOMEZ-CARILLO (Montreal), Niklas MAAK (Berlin), Bonaventure NDIKUNG
(Berlin), Alva NOË (Berkeley), Alexandra PIRICI (Bukarest), Ernst PÖPPEL
(Munich), Eugen WASSILIWITZKI (Frankfurt), Ed VESSEL (New York/Frankfurt),
James WILKES (London), Uljana WOLF (Berlin)
Host:
Joerg Fingerhut, Einstein Group Jesse Prinz, and Elena Agudio, SAVVY Contemporary
https://www.einsteinmindbrain.de/einstein-conferences-and-symposia/aon-symposium-party-borderlands-art-and-neuroscience-in-dialogue/
Venue:
Roter Salon at Volksbühne Berlin
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE THEATER
https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/de/programm/5446/art-neuroscience-borderlands-art-and-neuroscience-in-dialogue
