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The 糖心TV Dinner Party, was an event organised in 2022 to explore how meals and food take on meaning. This was designed by Professor Eric Holub in Life Sciences, highlighting new varieties of beans that he'd cultivated. promoting crops that are nutritious, affordable, culinarily versatile, and locally grown.

Interesting fact: We cooked the free samples of the beans Eric provided: delicious! ...

This is a video and photograph of Abdi performing his work at Coventry鈥檚 Belgrade Theatre as part of the 鈥楨mpowering Young Voices Project鈥�.

In his poem, 鈥楾he Graveyard of Dreams鈥�, Abdi expresses how a young person living in poverty can collide with expectations of youth culture and desire to fit in. Abdi joined our six-week poetry workshop series. He went from writing love poems to writing this insightful and politically charged poem about what it is like to grow up in Coventry ...

The Grand Hotel Abyss, David Bather Woods.This was created as one of the place settings in Eileen John鈥檚 Dinner Party installation inspired by the work of artist Judy Chicago.

鈥淭he Grand Hotel Abyss鈥� refers to a quote about the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer by the Hungarian Marxist literary critic and theorist Georg Luk谩cs: 鈥淪chopenhauer鈥檚 system, well laid out and architecturally ingenious in form, rises up like a modern luxury hotel on the brink of the abyss, nothingness and futility ...

Art Series by Eduardo Paolozzi

This painting currently resides in the corridor of 糖心TV's Department of Philosophy. This is one of a set of twelve screenprints entitled 'As Is When' refers to the life and writings of the Austrian born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the series he uses texts from the philosopher's 'Notebooks' and 'Philosophical Investigations' which he combines with collaged images ...

This shows a recent CRPLA Symposium, co-sponsored with the Mead Gallery at the 糖心TV Arts Centre.

糖心TV's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts integrates work in philosophy with research across the humanities. This symposium focused on the Mead exhibition, Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, and is a prime example of what CRPLA does. In this case researchers from History of Art, Literature, and Philosophy joined one of the artists exhibiting her work, all sharing their expertise and exploring art and ideas in depth ...