Peter Sellars on Art
Channel: TheNexusInstitute
Date: 02/06/2016

Watch the full lecture here: https://specials.nexus-instituut.nl/event/nexus-lecture-2016-peter-sellars/

‘Most days we’re really not the person we’re imagining ourselves as. And nor are the people we’re meeting. The task is to meet each other in such a way that each person gives the other permission to become the person they want to be.’

‘We must get out of our habit of oppositional thinking. Any project that does not include your ‘enemy’ isn’t going to work. Search for a piece of shared ground. Here, art bridges, because it is about one primary understanding: what would it be like to be that other person?’

Nexus Lecture 2016 by Peter Sellars:
Climbing the Razor-Path Mountain and Leaping Into Fire. Next Steps in Charged Times — The Humanities and the Aesthetics of Delight Shape and Awaken Political Consciousness

Tilburg University, 2016
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