engage2012 - artist led city project:

engage 2012 - artist led city project:
The artists leave their homes, where reactions and interactions are often familiar and defined.
They come together in a foreign city, where they themselves are the others, simultaneously being in the city,
as well as apart from it due to their position as foreigners.

Monday, 28 November 2011

Intelligent Bodies

Intelligent Bodies and Ecological Subjectivities:
Merleau-Ponty’s Corrective to Postmodernism’s
“Subjects” of Education


This is a text my Mum forwarded on to me yesterday. It's categorized under philosophy of education but I found it relevant to multiple concerns. I really like that these ideas re-unite all aspects of lived experience and don't atomize the complexity of how we physically experience and navigate the world. the ideas in relation to location are particularly relevant to engage2012 as-well as ideas about 'encountering' the world rather than 'perceiving' it.


READ THE FULL TEXT HERE


//emma
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