Sigrid Weigel: About the artwork of Tino Sehgal

Vortrag auf dem 3. Venice Symposium Art and Neuroscience in dialogue: Embodied cognition, body perception and intersubjectivity. An interdisciplinary dialogue addressing Tino Sehgal's work der Association of Neuroesthetics

Over the past decade, neuroscience has become an active member in a dialogue that was previously reserved for the humanities and the arts. Topics such as the relationship between the mind and the body, empathy and social behaviour, and concepts of consciousness now constitute growing areas of neuroscientific inquiry and interdisciplinary dialogue.

To extend the discussion to the domain of contemporary art, this symposium will focus on the work of Tino Sehgal. In his artistic practise, exemplified in his recent piece This Variation, Sehgal broaches questions of body perception and embodied cognition. In keeping with the AoN’s mission of creating a forum for discussion of current neuroscientific research alongside contemporary artistic practise, Sehgal’s work provides a timely point of convergence.