Moving Bodies, Concepts, and Understanding
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In a post-disciplinary world, how do bodies, concepts and epistemologies move? How might we articulate the transition between artistic and philosophical thought – and the practices that give them shape? In this conversation, artist-researchers Ruth Anderwald, Leonhard Grond and artist and cognitive scientist Stefan M. Schneider approach these questions through the lenses of their respective (and often overlapping) practices in art, somatics, and research, probing scholarly, visual, performative, and conceptual vocabularies.
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