In the rehearsal room of Friargate Theatre, York, I sat with my friend and collaborator as we created a piece of theatre; we were both barefoot — and rightly so, for this, like all rehearsal spaces, was ‘holy ground’. Holy…
In his appendix “The Ethos of the Body in Art and Media,” John Paul II begins by saying, in painting or sculpture, man/body always remains a model that is subjected to a specific reworking by the artist. In film and…
Everything we experience has to be embodied. Or, better, every experience we have can only be perceived, received, experienced by a sentient, embodied individual. That doesn’t mean to say that everything which could be experienced is experienced. Trees falling in…
This week, Transpositions turns its attention to ‘Art, Embodiment and the Digital’ and the issues that surround the intersection of these three concepts It is not lost on us that Transpositions is only made possible by the latter; while this…
Jeremy S. Begbie & Steven R. Guthrie (eds), Resonant Witness: Conversations Between Music and Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011). The aim of this roughly 500-page-long anthology is to “demonstrate the fruitfulness of theology for music, and the fruitfulness of music for…
On January 6, 2012, the public radio show This American Life aired an excerpt from monologuist Mike Daisey‘s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Daisey describes a trip to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, which makes Apple products. During…
Often on this blog, we have talked about ways in which the arts might help us encounter God. In this, my last regular post on Transpositions, I thought I might summarize some of these central points, both as a matter…
Wayne Adams is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Calvin College (1996), and then an MFA from Washington University in St Louis (2000). In 2009-10, Adams was awarded an International Arts Movement…
‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’ These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at best, deceptive at worst. But how often are they uttered after a sermon? People may not…