Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Khôra first emerged as a philosophical idea in the writings of Plato and was used to describe a space or interval that was ‘outside’ normal experience. He described it as a kind of ‘non-being’ or ‘formless interval’, a space that existed in between realms that were logical and knowable. In this arts based research project, I use the idea of Khôra as a way to investigate emergent images of the unconscious. This study explores Khôra as a generative way to think about the unconscious, a space in-between, one that can never be definitively posited, but one that can be explored through refraction, projection, condensation and automatism. The poster session includes original artwork and artist books.