Conversation: Phenomenology:Phenomenology of health and environmental art activism

Abstract

This conversation illuminates phenomenology from the perspectives of two humanities practitioners: a philosopher/academic and an artist/practitioner. The conversation develops a new, more complex environmental philosophy emerging from engagement with art, at its encounter with phenomenology, while offering definitions of terms that may be useful to the reader. Phenomenology was developed in the early twentieth century as a philosophical approach by thinkers including Martin Heidegger, who offered the idea of the human as a “being in the world”, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty who saw this being as grounded in perception and embodiment. This conversation puts their ideas to work in relation to both philosophy and art, considering the environment.<br/><br/>Facilitator: Amber Abrams