Building Thought Through Conversations

Exhibitions

(Events with a collection of topic-based art and philosophy by Dena Shottenkirk, with Resident Philosophers there to guide conversations. The 3 pillars of talkPOPc come together to create consensus: Art as Conversation, Philosophy as Conversation, and One-to-One Conversations. )


Power: Its Uses and Abuses
Apr
1
3:00 PM15:00

Power: Its Uses and Abuses

talkPOPc welcomes you to join our newest exhibition event on our current topic of power. Topic-based art and philosophy by Dena Shottenkirk, with Resident Philosophers to guide conversation.

Art as Conversation / Philosophy as Conversation / One-to-One Conversations 

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talkPOPc at Salzburg, Austria's galerie5020 | Summer 2023
Aug
10
to Aug 11

talkPOPc at Salzburg, Austria's galerie5020 | Summer 2023

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talkPOPc is participating in galerie5020’s four-month long exhibition entitled “Meetingpoints.” We are so pleased about this and we'll be showing four paintings, each with their own videos of the puppet doing philosophy. In addition, on Aug 10 and 11 our Resident Philosophers Johannes Brandl and Dena Shottenkirk will be holding conversations in our talkPOPc tent.

Gallery address:
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Residenzplatz 10, 2.OG, 5020 Salzburg

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Art as Cognition: talkPOPc EXHIBITION + GALLERY CONVERSATION EVENT @ Forum Gestaltung Magdeburg, Germany w/ Resident Philosopher Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink
Oct
20
to Oct 24

Art as Cognition: talkPOPc EXHIBITION + GALLERY CONVERSATION EVENT @ Forum Gestaltung Magdeburg, Germany w/ Resident Philosopher Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink

Pictured: talkPOPC Resident Philosopher Juniorprofessor Neurophilosophy Sascha Benjamin Fink of Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg with curator Norbert Pohlmann with artist and talkPOPc founder Dr. Dena Shottenkirk at the exhibition’s opening

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Art as Cognition: talkPOPc EXHIBITION + GALLERY CONVERSATION EVENT @ galerie Jilská 14 w/ Resident Philosophers Martin Nitsche and Dr. Dena Shottenkirk
Sep
28
to Oct 1

Art as Cognition: talkPOPc EXHIBITION + GALLERY CONVERSATION EVENT @ galerie Jilská 14 w/ Resident Philosophers Martin Nitsche and Dr. Dena Shottenkirk

talkPOPc in conjunction with Dr. Martin Nitsche, Chair of the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences, presents Art as Cognition and associated exhibition programming from Wednesday, September 28 – Sunday, October 1 at galerie Jilská14 in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Programming will include the talkPOPc conversation tent with Prof. Nitsche (conversations in Czech) and Prof. Shottenkirk (conversations in English), which will be set up in gallerie Jilska14s courtyard on Friday, September 30th from 2 pm – 7 pm. Topic of discussion Art as Cognition.

Gallery Info:

Address: Jilská 14, Praha 1

Gallery Hours 2-7PM W - Sun

email: galerie@jilska14.cz

telefone: +420 721 462 414


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Art as Cognition: talkPOPc ALL-DAY GALLERY CONVERSATION EVENT + EXHIBITION @ Postmasters Gallery w/ Resident Philosophers Carolina Flores and Vince Peluce
Jan
26
12:00 PM12:00

Art as Cognition: talkPOPc ALL-DAY GALLERY CONVERSATION EVENT + EXHIBITION @ Postmasters Gallery w/ Resident Philosophers Carolina Flores and Vince Peluce

This “circus” of an event featured the talkPOPc tent with Resident Philosophers, videos and documentary films of talkPOPc, the puppet, and (pictured here) performance artists dressed up and channeling historical philosophers: Patrice Miller (pictured here) as Hildegaard von Bingen.

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talkPOPc EXHIBITION: Art as Cognition @ Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia curated by Veronica Cianfrano
Apr
5
to Apr 22

talkPOPc EXHIBITION: Art as Cognition @ Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia curated by Veronica Cianfrano

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Opening reception Friday, 5 April from 6 – 10 pm

Marginal Utility is pleased to present an exhibition by talkPOPc – the Philosophers’ Ontological Party club. talkPOPc is a non-profit that is organized around the practice of one-to-one conversations between a philosopher and a participant, it was begun in 2012 by Dena Shottenkirk. POPc is an examination of – as well as re-creation of – the process of thought-building. Shottenkirk’s project begins with her thoughts on a specific topic and then extends that examination to the thoughts of others. This exhibition, curated by Veronica Cianfrano, centers on POPc’s third project: Art as Cognition.

The exhibition re-invents the notion of performance and multi-disciplinary events. Re-calling the potent critical tool of the personal encounters of Dadaist happenings, the exhibition is visual, performative, and interactive, employing the written word as well. The space divides into a first section that is called “A First Voice” and is Shottenkirk’s voice on the topic, which is seen in both the visual component of her paintings and in the written component of her recently published articles. The rest of the gallery is designated as “All Voices”: the collated conversations of others. There are two curtained off sections: a small area for one-to-one conversations to be held during the gallery exhibition itself, in which various philosophers serve as POPc’s Resident Philosopher (drawing from the American Society for Aesthetics’ annual meeting as well as nearby universities) and invite gallery participants to come behind the curtain and have a conversation. The other larger curtained area has seating where gallery visitors can relax and listen to audio of the past year’s conversations in both Philadelphia and New York. The Philadelphia conversations were held inside the POPc tent on the sidewalk in front of City Hall; the New York ones were held both in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and in a series of POPc events that were held in bodegas around Brooklyn. They are the philosophical ruminations of ordinary, everyday people. The remaining section of the “All Voices” section is a video of the POPc puppet (replete with the signature gold POPc hat worn by all the philosophers participating in the project!) explaining the project.

The exhibition is a delving into the general idea of conversation. And, importantly, conversation’s role in thought. We each have ideas, individually held, that are the result of hearing and listening to others. In turn, when we each express our viewpoints, we are adding to and building that process of thought-construction that is held by the group. What POPc is doing with conversation is stoking the dormant philosophical queries that lurk inside each one of us. While we might go to the gym to exercise our muscles, most of us in the modern world rarely deliberately attend to exercising our minds. talkPOPc is a way of doing that. In that, it is shows how conversation is the at the core of both public philosophy and of art.

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Censorship: CONVERSATION EVENT @ Sir Harry's Bar in the Waldorf Astoria with Resident Philosopher Dr. Dena Shottenkirk
Jan
13
6:00 PM18:00

Censorship: CONVERSATION EVENT @ Sir Harry's Bar in the Waldorf Astoria with Resident Philosopher Dr. Dena Shottenkirk

Dr. Dena Shottenkirk continues the conversation event series on the second topic in the talkPOPc project entitled Censorship corresponding with Shottenkirk’s publication Cover Up the Dirty Parts!: Arts Funding, Fighting, and the First Amendment published 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and a series of related artworks held at Sir Harry’s Bar in the historic landmark Waldorf Astoria hotel. Participants are invited to converse with a philosopher on the topic and record their thoughts on the talkPOPc blog.

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Censorship: talkPOPc CONVERSATION EVENT @ Flowers for All Occasions with Resident Philosopher Dr. Dena Shottenkirk
Oct
7
6:00 PM18:00

Censorship: talkPOPc CONVERSATION EVENT @ Flowers for All Occasions with Resident Philosopher Dr. Dena Shottenkirk

Dr. Dena Shottenkirk continues the conversations on the second topic in the talkPOPc project entitled Censorship corresponding with Shottenkirk’s publication Cover Up the Dirty Parts!: Arts Funding, Fighting, and the First Amendment published 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and a series of related artworks held at the former flower-shop-turned-bar Flowers for All Occasions on the Bedford-Stuyvesant Bushwick border. Participants are invited to converse with a philosopher on the topic and record their thoughts on the talkPOPc blog.

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talkPOPc EXHIBITION: More Stately Mansions @ Kitchen Table Gallery in conjunction with Champions of Empty Rooms, curated by Veronica Cianfrano
Aug
6
to Aug 25

talkPOPc EXHIBITION: More Stately Mansions @ Kitchen Table Gallery in conjunction with Champions of Empty Rooms, curated by Veronica Cianfrano

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Curated by Veronica Cianfrano, this group exhibition focused on socially engaged art and socially engaged practice in particular social inequality. As part of talkPOPc’s censorship topic we created a public philosophy installation inside which conversations were held on the topic of censorship, free speech, hate speech and being silenced.

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