Art & politics & fiction & sex & death & aesthetics & reading & psychobiography & dialectics & philosophy & horror & sleeping & reading & music & intensity & jouissance &... 8 speakers negotiate diverse positions mapping the radical terrain of the ampersand http://www.ica.org.uk/ JOHN CUSSANS Multi-media artist & writer, whose research explores para-psychological scenarios & multi-authoring processes. Eggheads in the Wallpaper: Writing, Psychobiography and the Problem of Historical Form takes its cue from a convergence of associational themes running between Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr) and The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman). It will address the textual inter-dependence of historical & subjective awareness, the relationship between science & art & their implications for inter-disciplinary art forms. Symposium convened by John Russell & Alun Rowlands, Department of Fine Art, University of Reading.
