Neuroesthetics Talk Series: Dorothée Legrand (CNRS Paris) & Susanne Ravn (Copenhagen)
This talk is about one of the puzzles of bodily self-consciousness: can an experience be both and at the same time an experience of one’s physicality and of one’s subjectivity? We will answer this question positively by determining a form of experience where the body’s physicality is experienced in a non-reifying manner. We will consider a form of experience of oneself as bodily which is different from both “prenoetic embodiment” and “pre-reflective bodily consciousness” and rather corresponds to a form of reflective access to subjectivity at the bodily level. In particular, we argue that subjectivity is bodily expressed, thereby allowing the experience of the body’s subjectivity directly during perceptual experiences of the body. We use an interweaving of phenomenological explorations and ethnographical methods which allows validating this proposal by considering the experience of body experts (dancers). All are welcome!
Neuroesthetics Talk Series
This talk is part of a series of public events organized by the the Association of Neuroesthetics in collaboration with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Institut für Raumexperimente (Studio Olafur Eliasson).The sciences, the humanities and the arts approach the natural world and our experience of it from different perspectives. Although traditionally considered separate disciplines, the desire for more holistic understandings has intensified the exchange between them. “Neuroesthetics” is one such node of interdisciplinary exchange, bridging various approaches to questions of art and human experience. On the one hand, rapid development in the neurosciences have produced an extensive database of insight that can further our understanding of both artistic appreciation and the processes of creativity. On the other, artists and those in the humanities continually engage with questions of experience, value and knowledge and their expertise is becoming increasingly relevant to scientific explorations aiming to understand these vital human characteristics. The European Association of Neuroesthetics, which is based in Berlin, has been founded to promote this exciting dialogue and lasting cooperation between the arts and the sciences. Building on the belief that both the arts and neuroscience have purchase on understandings of the human condition, a public talk series together with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and the Institut für Raumexperimente (Studio Olafur Eliasson) was launched. At (roughly) monthly talks speakers from various disciplines will be invited to present their work. The events are intended as a platform for dialogue – linking artists, scientists and scholars –as well as a space for interdisciplinary research to be presented and shared publicity. www.association-of-neuroesthetics.org/
www.mind-and-brain.de
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