Dear Friends,

Owing to having to postpone of the Winchester Cathedral concert of the 
new work by Sir John Tavener, I have had to re-organise our Festival at 
short notice. The programme is set out for you below. We have managed 
to attract some wonderful new speakers and performers as well as some 
favourite guests from past events who will be telling us of the latest 
developments in their work.

We are very fortunate to have Professor Raymond Tallis as our Friday 
evening key note speaker. A true polymath (doctor, scientist, novelist, 
poet and philosopher), you may have heard him last year as a highly 
entertaining guest on Desert Island Discs.

I also recommend the Saturday evening session, with Paul Broks showing 
extracts from his new film on jazz guitarist Pat Martino, who climbed 
back to his art after 'a memory stripping brain operation'. This is 
followed by a terrific band - Samay - who will be playing us out with 
an exciting fusion of jazz and Indian music. Cultural identities 
melding into something quite new.  Not to be missed. But then that goes 
for the whole of the Festival!

For further information, please see the website page 
http://artandmind.org/pages/Events.htm

I hope to see you there.

With best wishes,

Garry Kennard
Director
Art and Mind


Art and Mind
exploring your brain - the infinite continent

The 7th unmissable Festival
Supported by
The University of Winchester
Winchester City Council
HampshireCounty Council

Full programme and further information   www.artandmind.org

Who am I? Who are you?
The art and science of identity

13 - 14 June 2008,  Theatre Royal Winchester
Box Office: 01962 840 440
I session £10 (£8 concessions)
2 sessions £18 (£14 concessions)
3 sessions £25 (£20 concessions)
4 sessions £32 (£24 concessions)

Introduction
One of the simplest but most profound questions that we might ask of 
ourselves is 'Who am I?' It leads to many others - 'Am I the same 
person I was a year ago - or even a day ago?' 'Am I really just one 
person, one  personality? Do I not become different people in different 
situations? Do I have many 'identities' existing in my single brain?

Which of the masks we wear in our social round represents our true 
identity? Or is it that the masks are our true selves - and that there 
is nothing behind them?

Our sense of identity is of such importance that it would seem 
impossible to move around in the world without having a distinct sense 
of 'self'. But does the 'self' exist - or is it an illusion?

This is our theme.

The programme

Friday 13 June
Session One
The truth of masks

7.30pm
Welcome  Garry Kennard, Founding Director,  Art and Mind
	
7.35	
Key note address
Personal Identity: Mind, Body, Community
Professor Raymond Tallis
Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester, 
novelist, poet and philosopher
Raymond Tallis will try to pin down the basis of that elusive feeling 
that we have a robust and continuing identity


8.30		
Mask, Actor and Identity
Dr Margaret Coldiron (and actors)
Freelance theatre director, performer and researcher specialising in 
Asian performance and masks
What happens when an actor puts on a mask? What becomes of his 
identity?  While the mask may be seen to conceal the identity of the 
performer, it is also true that the performer reveals the identity of 
the mask. Sometimes, through the  mask, the multiple identities emerge, 
identities perceived by the viewer of which the performer may not be 
aware. This presentation will explore issues surrounding masks and 
identity through a variety of mask traditions - Greek Tragedy,  
Balinese Topeng, Japanese Noh, and contemporary European neutral and 
character masks. 


Saturday 14 June
Session Two
Self perception

11.00am	
Art, mind and identity
Garry Kennard
Founding Director, Art and Mind
Beginning with an review of current thinking on art and the brain this 
wide ranging presentation will argue that the telling of tales which 
‘identify’ us as individuals is the at the core of art and culture.
		
12.00pm	
Experiment in 12 parts
David Dixon
Artist and lecturer
What happened when two community groups were asked to examine their 
ideas of identity.  Can exposing a person to different ways of thinking 
affect their notions of self, and what happens when the inherent values 
of the individual are laid bare to the uncertainties of the creative 
process? Using film and photography David Dixon shows the results of a 
12 week residency in Southampton.



Session Three
Anyone there?

2.15
Think you are alone? Think again
Rita Carter
Author of ‘Mapping the Mind’, ‘Exploring Consciousness’ and her 
remarkable new book ‘Multiplicity - the new science of personality’.
Rita Carter argues that each of us consists of a group of 
personalities, and explains why our sense of a  singular or ‘authentic’ 
self is an illusion.

3.30		
Juggling
Professor June Boyce-Tillman
Professor of Applied Music, University of Winchester
An entertaining interdisciplinary exploration based on the notion that 
we are not a single self but that the self is multiple and consists of 
performances which are learned.

4.35		
Panel
Your chance to ask questions of our guests:  Rita Carter, Dr. Paul 
Broks, June Boyce-Tillman and Professor Raymond Tallis


Session Four
My music!

7.30		
Martino Unstrung
A Tale of Memory, Music and Identity.
Dr. Paul Broks
Neuropsychologist and writer at Pymouth University.  Author of ‘Into 
the Silent Land’.
In 1980 the legendary jazz guitarist Pat Martino was brutally silenced 
by memory stripping brain surgery.  The film ‘Martino Unstrung’ tells 
the story of Pat’s remarkable return to the peak of his art. This is 
the story of an unlikely hero whose remarkable experiences hold wider 
meaning for us all. Paul Broks will show pre-release excerpts and tell 
the story behind the making of the film.

8.45		
Samay
Cultural identity?
Mix and marvel with this wonderful fusion band.
Samay is a unique collective of musicians exploring new ways of 
understanding and making music.  Taking the traditional music of India 
as a base for constructing original arrangements and improvisation as 
well as using their previous experience in jazz and various world folk 
styles, the musicians create a distinctive sound so far unknown to the 
western or eastern world.
A great sound to end the Festival.
9.45		Close



Art and Mind
exploring your brain - the infinite continent
Have you ever been moved, delighted, fascinated  or disgusted by a work 
of art - and wondered  why? Have you ever puzzled over why you like 
that song, and not another? Why that film? That play? That painting? 
That building? And have you ever pondered the power of the religious 
impulse and the strength of the mythological stories that seem to hold 
such meaning for us?

In recent years the sciences of the mind have   started to unravel 
answers to these questions.  Brain imaging techniques, for example, 
allow us to see what is happening in our heads when we  experience 
sensations and emotions. It is plausible that one day we will be able 
to understand the physical mechanisms underlying the entire continuum 
of human experience, from its seedling basis in the human genome to its 
manifestations in the grandest of our cultural creations.

In unique combinations of science, philosophy and art, in live 
performance and discussion, and on our web site,  Art and Mind brings 
together some of the world’s most eminent thinkers, scientists   and 
artists to examine the way we experience and create contemporary 
culture. We provide a platform for the public discussion of the vital 
issues emerging from that exploration.

We are at the beginning of a new and profound exploration of what we 
humans are and how we describe and organize ourselves.  Why not join 
Art and Mind in this great adventure?

Garry Kennard
Founding director,  Art and Mind