“Improvising Consciousness” by The Intermedia Performance Studio

Let us (temporarily) steal your mind! Explore cognition through time!

Improvising Consciousness – Performative Lectures & Interactive Workshops presented by The Intermedia Performance Studio

Performative Lectures: Friday Jan 6 & 13 at 7:00 pm

Interactive Workshops: Saturday Jan 7 & 14, 10 am-1 pm & 2 pm-5 pm; Sunday Jan 8 & 15, 12 pm-3 pm

Improvising Consciousness is a performative lecture and interactive workshop that explores cognition as historically contingent. The lecture introduces different theories of mind including: Julian Jaynes’ radical hypothesis that that the minds of pre-historic humans were configured bicamerally with a god-side and a man-side and that early humans literally heard voices of gods in their heads; Stone and Chase’s provocative insinuation that the contemporary mind grounds out in multiple personality; Baron-Cohen’s stark theory that autism is an extreme of the male mind and that autistics lack a theory of mind. The exercises in the interactive workshop temporarily steal the participants’ minds and support phenomenological experience of alternative mind configurations.

All meetings are in collaboration with the Subversive Theater Collective and will take place at the Manny Fried Playhouse, 255 Great Arrow Avenue, Buffalo, New York

Admission is FREE and open to the public!

Event Website: http://ips.buffalo.edu/?p=255