Returning to the Philosophers' Table

For the last three weeks I've been participating in a new integrated arts project Returning to the Philosophers' Table.

I feel as though, since embarking on the project, I've been oscillating wildly in a perpetual state of wonder as we've explored behind the scenes of The Lit & Phil, been granted access to the treasures of The Discovery Museum's archives, toured around the Hancock with archaeologists, antiquarians, artists, poets and ethnologists, discussed our thoughts, findings and lines of enquiry...

The concept of the project - to return to a pre-specialism environment as a point of creative discourse, discovery and creation - sung with my own interests in return, myth, the unknown, the fallibility of human knowledge and epistemology. It feels like a great privilege both to be part of the process and to have access to such a deep well of resources, ideas and possibilities.

I'll write more about my protean ideas and research soon, just trying to allow the whole documented history of the Lit & Phil filter into my conscious (courtesy of Charles Parish's The History of the Lit & Phil Volume II)...