When we stop talking about the object, does it disappear? Perhaps this is the moment when the object itself comes into existence; when we are taken out of the equation. And what for imagination? Perhaps the object has one. But what is ‘imagination’, other than a human word for something that humans experience themselves.
This is a conversation that took place between Jaspar Joseph Lester, Tony Hall, Gabriel Badamosi, Emma Cocker, Dale Holmes, Michelle Atherton, Amy Davies, Sharon Kivland, Lea Torp Nielsen, Julie Westerman, Andy Welland, Dave and another. It started at 4:15pm on 23rd March 2012, and is still going.
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How can it be that we find a human emotion with an object? Is this an energy inherent in the being of the object, or is it always going to be something we bring to it, that we place onto it? It is impossible to say, impossible to know, impossible to even compare the subjective feelings we feel of these objects. Is feeling knowledge? Is thought knowledge? How do you make sense of your senses?
This is a conversation that took place between Gary Simmonds and other participants (names not noted). It started at 5:00pm on 23rd March 2012, and is still going.
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The boundaries are not so solid. Categories such as ‘word’ and ‘picture’ apply to…what exactly?  Where is meaning: emotional response or literal definition? Somewhere in the middle. Could you draw the meaning of an unknown word intuitively? And how is it that English cows say “Moo”, yet French cows say “Maa”?
This is a conversation that took place between Alison Carlier, Tony Hall, Paul Wilson, Robert Wilson and Karen David. It started at 3:00pm on March 23rd 2012 and is still going.
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Is painting a noun or a verb; is painting an object or something that artists do? Alternatively, can painting be an understanding, a knowledge or an experience happening beyond either of these; could painting be a conversation about a painting? And is it something intrinsically artistic, concerned with the nature of being an artist, or is painting the process of learning, like a child, drawing their way into understanding the world?
This is a conversation that took place between Karen David, Tony Hall, Robert Wilson and Gary Simmonds. It started at 3:30pm on 23rd March 2012, and is still going.
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