Talk Cocktail

How Art Shapes our Nature


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We live in this world usually someplace between the mundane and the absurd. But regardless of which, it's one that is probably organized to the Nth degree.  Our technology is almost embedded in our personal DNA, in order to keep us on task. 
But is all this structure an impediment to creativity?  And if so, where might we get back to our youthful sense of play, of wonder and of discovery.
For some, it’s in travel and visiting strange places and the strange surroundings that take us out of ourselves.  For others, and often closer to home, it can be found in art; in what  Alve Noe refers to as the boredom of art.  
Art that unlike so much of culture, goes beyond surface and draws us in, sometimes to see the world in a brush stroke, a dance step, a well crafted sentence, or in a grain of sand.
Alve Noe takes this discussion of art to a new level in his book Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
My conversation with Alva Noe:
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Talk CocktailBy Jeff Schechtman

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