Study of George Dyer, 1971 (detail) © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2023
In collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon, the CPA are delighted to present Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, a conference exploring new ways of understanding Francis Bacon's work and its implications for psychoanalysis and philosophy. See below for a list of speakers. Tickets are free but ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER via Eventbrite at the link below. Talks will be in the Council Room, Strand Campus.
Alenka Zupančič (Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts/European Graduate School)
Howard Caygill (Kingston)
Dany Nobus (Brunel)
Sacha Golob (KCL)
Ben Ware (KCL)
Rohit Goel (BICAR)
Darren Ambrose (Independent scholar and artist)
Schedule
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome - Ben Ware (KCL)
09:45 - 10:45 Francis Bacon’s Eyes: Blindness, Portraiture, and the Derangement of the Sense - Dany Nobus (Brunel) & Sacha Golob (KCL, Chair)
10:45 - 11:45 Bacon's Corpus & Darren Ambrose (Independent Scholar and Artist) & Ben Ware (KCL, Chair)
11:45 - 12:15 Refreshments
12:15 - 13:15 Francis Bacon: Decadent? - Sacha Golob (KCL) & Vanessa Brassey (KCL, Chair)
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Bacon's Cynegetic Vision - Howard Caygill (Kingston)& Colette Olive (KCL, Chair)
15:30 - 16:30
Bacon: Art, Movement, Thought - Rohit Goel - Sacha Golob (KCL, Chair)
(This talk will be given by video link)
16:30 - 17:00 Refreshments
17:00 - 18:00 On Series and Doubles - Alenka Zupančič (Slovene Academy of Sciences) & Ben Ware (KCL, Chair)
18:15 - 19:15 Drinks Reception