13th September 2013 |
Salon No 6 will be inviting you over the course of Saturday and Sunday afternoons to explore the outer reaches of identity. Whether your own, your on-line, the universe’s or even the identity of music, Salon’s unique approach of bringing passionate experts from the arts, sciences and psychology allows you to consider and explore the theme, cocktail in hand, as we bring you massive ideas in intimate settings, this time the Grade II Jacobean town hall at the magical Portmeirion.
Philippa Perry
Acclaimed psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry is first on the Salon stage to help us get to grip with our identity. Philippa perceives an increasing vanity around our identities, and believes we operate under the illusion that we can control the way we are seen. Come hear about your multiple identities, and why all identities diminish us, as we explore our theme from a psychological point of views.
Greg Wilson
DJ and Producer Greg Wilson presents for Salon No 6 his audio lecture, marking 25 years on from the Acid House, ‘Before The Second Summer of Love.’ Covering the events leading up to that pivotal year, and explaining why it could have only happened in Britain, Greg will outline the origins of our dance culture, play key tracks, and explore the UK’s long-standing obsession and identification with black music.
Grace Dugdale
Molecular biologist Grace Dugdale will be exploring our sexual identity. So long the subject of nature or nurture, Grace’s interest in sexual identity stems from her research into the different factors that determine how we feel and behave sexually. Grace will present us with a scientific understanding of our choices, and explore the rip tide of sexual rivalry that runs under society.
Art Macabre
True Identity is the theme of Nikki Shaill’s especially curated ‘death drawing’ session for Festival No 6. Art Macabre’s Death Drawing Salons inject a lethal dose of theatricality, curiosity and the macabre into life drawing and she will be encouraging you to explore your true identity as you, inspired by Nikki’s tableau of inspiring nudity, feel the need to brandish an artistic weapon of choice and make some killer marks.
Materials for this session are sponsored by Cass Art.
David Tong
David Tong is a Cambridge Professor of Theoretical Physics, who gets his kicks by working out how the universe is held together on a fundamental level through exploring quantum field theory, string theory, supersymmetry, solitons and cosmology. Armed with photos and explanations of big bang, inflation and 13 billion years ago to the millionth of a second, we could therefore think of no one better to explore our place in the universe.
