Exhibition (How We Got Here, group show), Platform Arts, Belfast, May 2017), installation.
William James’ extensive survey of human spirituality led him to the conclusion that in practice our subconscious needs and desires drive our beliefs, “instinct leads, intelligence does but follow”. This work responds to the contemporary contours of the transcendent forms which shape our actions; tracing tales of struggle and conflict and love and solidarity, and looking obliquely at the panpsychic fictions which bind and divide us – tying us to politics and placing us in history.
HED A5 text – accompanying text (print double-sided, cut and fold).
Video extract (1min 20sec), the audio is freely available on Libravox, a reading of William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Joey O'Gorman 