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PAUL COOPER, South Africa

lecturer I researcher

is currently working on a PhD focusing on the intersecting interstices of intuition and place in spatial art practices. Theories of embodied cognition, phenomenology and post-phenomenology inform the work he does with space. As a practising artist and art historian, he is deeply invested in the rapidly evolving ideas around place and space in the visual arts and related cross-disciplinary and collaborative contexts.

The otherworldly aspect of the Occult is an important conceptual and experiential feeder into his work around intuition, place and space. He holds a lectureship in visual arts and art history in the Departement of Art and Music, Unisa. Possibilities for cross-disciplinary projects with a deep investment in the rapidly evolving ideas around place and space in the visual arts and related contexts are central to his research.

CREDITS AND REFERENCES

1. Photo credit: Paul Cooper

1. Casey, SE. (1987) Remembering: a phenomenological study. 2nd Edition. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press

2. Relph, E. (1984) Placeness, place, placelessness. London: Pion

3. Soja, EW. (1989) Postmodern geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory. London: Verso

4. Tuan, Y. (1978) Sign and metaphor. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. vol.68, issue3, pp.363-372

5. Varela, JF, Thompson, E, & Rosch, E. (1991) The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press