Dialogue

New Contemporaries Preview at Leeds Art Gallery

I arrived in time for the speeches, looked around the show and talked to some colleagues/friends. We went for drinks after and talked about nepotism in the arts sector. Whilst these types of conversations would be great to be open and public, they could not be as honest and direct in a public forum. This idea of public/private space for dialogue and the type of content disclosed is interesting and pertinent. The disclosure of dialogue.

Hill walks and conversations today. There is something interesting about conversations at minor altitude (1000ft) possibly due to physiological changes and visual perceptions. I would be interested to see what affect on dialogue climbing to moderate altitude would have.

Sounds of a Market at Parley, Queensgate Market, Huddersfield

I had a meeting with the Portico Library today and James brought to my attention one of their previous exhibition In So Many Words: Roget’s Thesaurus and the Power of Language.

“The Portico Library’s first Secretary, Peter Mark Roget, was a medical doctor, inventor, linguist and mathematician. His contribution to the English language is hard to overstate, with over 30 million copies of his eponymous Thesaurus empowering generations since its first publication in 1852. The Thesaurus was designed, in his words, “to facilitate the expression of ideas” and as such has played a significant part in our ability to communicate, and to negotiate the perils and possibilities of language. As part of the library’s 2018 Information is Power project, funded by The Zochonis Charitable Trust, three contemporary artists have created new works based on research into Roget’s legacy – the role of vocabulary in the 21st century; the power of words; the uses and abuses of text and speech.”

I have a copy of Roget’s Thesaurus in my studio on wheels (I defaced an old copy by screwing caster wheels onto the back so you can push the tome around).

Reading list: Social Science, Philosophy and Theology in Dialogue
A Relational Perspective Edited ByPierpaolo Donati, Antonio Malo, Giulio Maspero

First Published 2019
Imprint Routledge

This volume explores the potential of employing a relational paradigm for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange. Bringing together scholars from the social sciences, philosophy and theology, it seeks to bridge the gap between subject areas by focusing on real phenomena.Although these phenomena are studied by different disciplines, the editors demonstrate that it is also possible to study them from a common relational perspective that connects the different languages, theories and perspectives which characterize each discipline, by going beyond their differences to the core of reality itself. As an experimental collection that highlights the potential that exists for cross-disciplinary work, this volume will appeal to scholars across a range of field concerned with critical realist approaches to research, collaborative work across subjects and the manner in which disciplines can offer one another new insights.