The Funeral Parlor, where we put bad ideas to rest.
Dates:
All programs are hosted by The Talk Shop (3936 Main St. Kansas City, MO 64111)
2/17/15 at 7 PM - Psuedo Tolerence with Dylan Mortimer.
Our country is an incredible melting pot of different cultures, ideologies and beliefs. Thus, the tolerance of ideas that are different from our own is highly valued by many. But real tolerance is hard, and we often resort to a pseudo-tolerance. Something that looks like tolerance, but in fact is another brand of intolerance- acceptance and love come only after we fit other ideologies into our own framework. We will look at what actual tolerance looks like in an atmosphere of intolerance.
2/25/15 at 7 PM - Social Practice (SoPra) with Sean Starowitz.
Randy Kennedy acknowledges in his 2013 New York Times article, “Outside the Citadel,” that practitioners [of socially-engaged art] freely blur the lines among object making, performance, community organizing, environmentalism and investigative journalism. Social practice grants artists the flexibility to flow within and around various practices and disciplines, forming collaborations on a greater scale, and creating cultural access points. But the question of how to judge, criticize, and critique this practice remains elusive.
More TBD!
The Funeral Parlor is an unique program that solicits ideas and criticisms from everyone in attendance to offer a platform for critical dialogue and new vocabularies to contemporary issues.
We will have a guest moderator with a brief presentation followed by an open dialogue around the issues, criticisms and concepts of a specific thesis (Creative Class, Trickle Down Economics, Creative Place-making, Car Culture) and through critical engagement and dialogue we will be able to forge new and better concepts while putting the bad ideas to rest.
