talkPOPc's Podcast
Dena Shottenkirk
talkPOPc (Philosophers' Ontological Party club), is public philosophy + cognitively-engaged art nonprofit founded by Dr. Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. As a topic-based project (we are now on our fourth) talkPOPc sponsors one-to-one conversations between a participant and a philosopher (who always dons our amazing gold African king hat, along with our mascot Puppet!) These conversations are consensus-building conversations and feed back into Shottenkirk's related artworks and published philosophy. The conversations become collaborative acts of making both philosophy and art. Thus, each topic - #1. nominalism, #2. censorship, #3. art as cognition, and #4 power - has three "pillars" the associated artworks, the published philosophy book, and podcast conversations. Various philosophers participate (see our website talkpopc.org for the list of philosophers) and these conversations happen in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. We sit down next to the deli counter and hold a conversation with someone who has walked in to get a ham sandwich and walked out knowing so much more about their own thoughts. We go into the MDC prison in Brooklyn and have conversations. We set up in galleries where the artworks and the philosophy are also displayed. And we listen. Here are some of those conversations.
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Episode #86: Levi - How understanding art is social and cognitive
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04/24/22 • 11 min
talkPOPc Participant Levi talks about how understanding art is social and cognitive with Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores at our spring Gallery Conversation Event outside of Postmaster's Gallery.
Timestamps
- 00:10: Introductions, favorite things about Art and engaging us
- 01:05: What do we learn after rationalizing our responses to Art? Seeing how other see and sharing perspectives to get to know other people
- 02:00: Why cultural artifacts exist? What's special about art versus the news or some other stimulus? It's more confined, concise and intentional
- 03:45: Good art is polarizing and allows people to engage with ideas they'd otherwise avoid or with ideas they deeply enjoy. Gives us perspective on people that normal interactions can't
- 05:00: Horror movies, not wanting to engage with the negativity, but it's still art! Just art that takes us to an emotional space we don't enjoy.
- 07:40: Engaging with other's notions of art. Taking on their perspective and getting past self-limits. Immersive theater and the experience of immigrants that we can connect to
- 10:05: Artwork taking on a life of its own. An entity within interaction, an expanded idea of what we can engage with in the art world
Episode #85: Johny - The aesthetics of anime: classical art, expression and anime's sophisticated narratives
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04/16/22 • 11 min
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions
- 00:30: Classical art, anime, and expression
- 01:15: The power of imagination in anime. Exaggeration of the real world.
- 02:30: Bleach, powers, discipline and going beyond the possibilities of the real world
- 03:35: Does enchantment inform the look and aesthetic of anime, or is it just the stories?
- 05:00: Anime as reality on steroids vs Western cartoons as impoverished versions
- 05:35: The importance of lessons in anime. Consequences, responsibilities and more sophisticated narratives from the real world.
- 08:00: Heroes, inspiration and cost.
11/21/21 • 16 min
Timestamps:
- 00:20: 2 Ways to View Art as Cognition: Art as a way to express cognition vs Cognition is a form of Art
- 02:25: Blank Page: Pure thought, consciousness and reality against physical objects.
- 05:15: Physical Interaction with the World: No physical brain, no consciousness.
- 07:15: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transparent Eyeball: Erasing the self and observing
- 10:00: Philosophical Thought: The ultimate rational being and erasing subjectivity
- 12:15: Between Subjectivity and Objectivity: How I feel and where it fits in the bigger picture. Capability of abstract thought, yet we're material beings
Episode 19: Keith: Is Art Defined by Our Reaction?
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03/08/20 • 24 min
Keith Moss, a management consultant from the UK, and is speaking to the Resident Philosopher Martina Botti. Keith, on a business trip, is visiting the bar and having a drink; he steps over to have a philosophical conversation. They discuss what makes something art, and after Keith suggests it is when a reaction is triggered, Martina suggests that maybe our brain doesn’t have a general definition of art and then apply that case by case. Maybe our brain sees it more in terms of having a paradigmatic case and then the new cases are compared to that. So, for example, she asks him, if he went to MoMA and saw these dada examples, what would he think? Would that fit in with the paradigmatic case that is in his head?
Episode 18: Gilles: Art is What Art Does
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03/01/20 • 51 min
The art historian and art critic Gilles Heno-Coe, who was the former Associate Director of Matthew Marks Gallery, speaks with Resident Philosopher Martina Botti. The conversation ranges between issues of meaning in art to the role of the market in determining that meaning. Repeatedly in their conversation, Charles Sanders Pierce appears. A nineteenth century American philosopher, Pierce was seminal in the development of pragmatism: the view that what matters is that which has actual affects. Truth is counted as truth because it is in the realm of practical effects, is what we count as real.
Episode 17: Patrice, Choreography and World-Building
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02/23/20 • 49 min
The choreographer and performance artist Patrice Miller’s conversation with RP Martina Botti (phd candidate from Columbia University) starts out with Patrice asking Martina a definition of ontology and metaphysics. What is real. And how we define the real. This sets the stage for the very interesting exchange between this artist and this philosopher, as they find common ground between art and philosophy.
Patrice makes the point that art talks about itself and talks about the subject also. It sets the boundaries of the space and of the artistic practice and is a kind of “world-building”. At a slightly later point, Martina brings in Nelson Goodman and his "world-making".
Episode 14: Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink + talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner explore Topic #3 "Art as Cognition"
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01/05/20 • 29 min
In this episode from our talkPOPc event, held in our tent at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we invite two philosophers to converse about and explore the third and current topic "Art and Cognition." Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner from Rutgers University and Professor of Neurophilosophy, Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink from Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany tackle the distinction between something being art and something not being art—they discuss issues of intentionality, whether art can be created by accident, if the role of the artist involves the “intention to guide your attention”, and, to what degree the viewer participates in the construction of art. Realist versus anti-realist debates finish the fruitful conversation.
Episode 13: Crystal: Feeling/Meaning in Art
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12/29/19 • 24 min
As a lover and maker of fashion, Crystal talks about what makes both fashion and art in general meaningful to her. The conversation at first seems to hint at her thinking that something is art because it is emotional and makes her feel a certain way, and Resident Philosopher Rubner comments on that: he points out that she seems to think art is art because it is emotional, and not cognitive. At the end, Andrew stops and reflects on the general point that the divide between thinking and feeling is perhaps artificial and the two are not mutually exclusive. Summarizing a point he saw repeated in all the conversations of the day, he finishes by saying that in the imaginative process, you first see things in the world, you think about it, and then you create art about it afterward. It involves both thinking and feeling.
Episode 11: Mr. Walcott and Landscaping
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12/15/19 • 20 min
Mr. Raul Walcott, who is from Guyana and works as a landscaper, talks to Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner about how the process of making something beautiful is a kind of art. The conversation in many ways is about the definition of art, but it also becomes a conversation about the function of art. Interestingly, it returns several times to the point, evident in landscape architecture, but perhaps more hidden in other kinds of that, that art is taking chaos and making order out of it. In Raul’s words, “You come into a situation that is not good, and then make it good.”
Episode #98: Chelsea - Making Space for People to Be Creative
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10/10/22 • 30 min
In conversation with Resident Philosopher Dr. Shottenkirk, Chelsea, a documentary producer, talks about making space for people to be creative
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions
- 01:05: Art and Philosophy, both are conversations
- 02:35: Chelsea's perspective on Art. A facilitator, a documentary producer.
- 04:30: The universal and the particular. Art needs to be true, if it's a lie, it won't ring true.
- 06:00: Art retells universal truths. What are those universal truths? Desire for one
- 08:15: The relationship between desire and integrity
- 10:55: "The more honest it is, the more it moves us" Art can be a space for us to accept ourselves
- 14:05: Antigone in Prison. We identify with each of these characters, be it good or bad people. Art has always been this way
- 18:20: A low stakes playfulness. Art has a nugget of playfulness and fun. It gets us out of our own heads for a bit
- 21:55: Why does playfulness live predominantly in younger years?
- 24:05: Curating voices that can tell a story. Who do we need to speak to get that authentic story? It's a work of Art that can bring out a lot of voices
- 27:25: Documentaries also help us understand our place in the world. What side are we on?
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How many episodes does talkPOPc's Podcast have?
talkPOPc's Podcast currently has 134 episodes available.
What topics does talkPOPc's Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Art, Conversations, Podcasts, Philosophy, Thought, Arts and Brooklyn.
What is the most popular episode on talkPOPc's Podcast?
The episode title 'Episode #108 Resident Philosopher Sascha Benjamin Fink speaks (auf deutsch!) in Magdeburg, Germany, with the scholar of philosophical anthropology Prof. Antonio Roselli' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on talkPOPc's Podcast?
The average episode length on talkPOPc's Podcast is 24 minutes.
How often are episodes of talkPOPc's Podcast released?
Episodes of talkPOPc's Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of talkPOPc's Podcast?
The first episode of talkPOPc's Podcast was released on Aug 11, 2019.
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