Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Art in a State of Siege |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 07/10/2025 |
| Duration | : | 8:15 - 9:45pm BST |
| Extra Info | : | Art in a State of Siege: How Art Bears Witness in Times of Crisis With Joseph Koerner Joseph Koerner examines how art bears witness to moments of collective psychic rupture—when the social contract collapses and unconscious anxieties surge into the cultural field. From a psychoanalytic perspective, these artworks emerge as symbolic defences, sublimations, and communications in times of acute societal breakdown. When the external world becomes unthinkable - under siege, under tyranny, or under erasure - artists perform a function akin to the analyst in crisis: they contain, give form to, and transmit unbearable truths. Koerner’s exploration of Bosch, Beckmann, and Kentridge reveals how, in such times, art refuses the lure of manic denial or dissociation. Instead, it often occupies what Wilfred Bion called a “container” function for the collective mind, metabolising unprocessed violence, persecution, and fear. |
| Organised By | : | The Institute of Psychoanalysis |
| Web Link | : | https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1843 |