Bedford   House  , Wheler   Street

23rd February 2003
1pm-6pm with breaks.  

Stewart Home (artist/writer)
 

Showing a couple of the short videos he made with Nick Abrahams / Mike Thompkins in relation to his books.
 

Simon Critchley

(author of 'Very Little...almost nothing' Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, England. He is a Programme Director of the Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris. He has been Visiting Professor at the University Of Sydney, Australia and is Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University, USA.) will talk about the idea of “destruction”.
 

Simon Glendinning

(philosopher presents talk at the Hayward Gallery, author off On Being with Others: Heidegger-Derrida-Wittgenstein Department of Philosophy
University of Reading) 'Making Use of Information Services', launching from a remark by Heidegger in his Being and Time: 'In utilizing public means of transport and in making use of information services such as the newspaper, every Other is like the next' (p. 164)

Tom McCarthy (General Secretary, International Necronautical Society)

'The Golden Triangle: Archive, Crypt and Polis' Gustav Metzger's work turns often around processes of archiving - or, more precisely, of occupying and acting out the social, media and symbolic spaces that open up around the archive. It also turns around catastrophe and violence and their traces: the archive as a crypt. Tom McCarthy, writer and General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society, outlines the importance of these themes for his own organisation, tracing them back through Western literature to the Greeks, and suggests that the relationship between archive, crypt and polis - the 'archaeo-crypto-political' triangle - could be a seminal one for artists.