OUR STUDIES SHOW

OUR STUDIES SHOW stages philosophy of mind as experimental processes of social mapping and modal operations. The project is a sequence of thinktank-style scenarios, set up as performance philosophy. Through a series of in-person gatherings, we (those assembled) dig deeply into metaphysical and conceptual problems, such as “the nature of cognition,” and what can be meant by “self-determination.” Together, participants undertake dramaturgical processes of debating, deliberating, deciding, and sketching out “logical spaces” (such as decision-trees) for shared inquiry. OUR STUDIES SHOW stages processes of collectively articulating the epistemological problems that matter to us, and experimenting with ways of performing inquiry together in temporary, specific, and “set aside” contexts. Considering our inhabitation of our own body-minds as legitimate empirical study (e.g. “instances of human thinking”) and our intuitions and ideas as important philosophical contributions, we practice thinking together in ways that center affect, social equity, compassionate communication, care, aesthetics, cognitive difference, and good relations. By staging practices of doing-thinking together, OUR STUDIES SHOW demands “radical” new forms of both artistic performance and philosophy, intervening in and re-making the means through which truths are determined by power.