The Empathy Circuit | The Artform of Outrospection
Empathy is a “feeling into” that evokes simultaneous knowledge of theselfand theother. Indeed, empathy has the capacity for a revolutionary epistemology, even a counter-ontology; the capacity to counter the polarisation and signifying isolation through Hegelian dialectics of these two terms; instead, we have an emotional equivalent to Humpty Dumpty’s “slithe”, a psychological portmanteau!..
A long-term and rolling project, The Brentwood Road Gallery are looking for artists, writers, psychologists, neuroscientists, educators, community activists, art therapists and anybody whose practice and research looks at the understanding and development of empathy within both the contemplative and scientific perspectives.
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