Monday, 8 March 2021, 12:45 pm | Feilding Art Centre Cornelius (‘Con’) Vickers is having his first solo exhibition at age 91. Born
in 1930 in Seaton, Country Durham England, Con started painting at school during
the war. At age 12 he won First Prize for a painting of a Spitfire titled ‘ Plane . More
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Concepts shape attitudes, that’s why we should improve them
We cannot simply accept words that contribute to oppression or exclusion, says philosopher Joey Pollock, who thinks the engineering of better words and concepts should also aim to address people’s moral understanding.
You can make decisions on how to use words, even though it is not necessarily easy, says philosopher Joey Pollock. Photo: Brett Jordan/Unsplash.
“We made the words. Of course we can decide what they mean!”
Joey Pollock is a philosopher of language, and if you tell her that words are just words, or that words have a given and final meaning, this is how she reacts. This is not, and should not be true, according to the philosopher.
Are shows such as this one a dream given the amount of pre-existing public interest?
Absolutely, whenever there’s a unifying force like hip-hop culture that speaks to a universal audience, it’s a dream come true. But it also comes with a big responsibility to tell the right story and celebrate the complexity of the culture. Visitors see the story unfold from a voice of a community to a voice for the world.
As a journalist what stories do you hope visitors take away from the exhibition?
I wanted to tease out these deeper layers, the spaces where hip-hop was born and took place and took shape. Ancillary characters, as well as neighbourhoods whether it’s Nas in Queensbridge, A$AP Rocky in Harlem or Kendrick Lamar at Tam’s Burgers in Compton are as important as the artists themselves. I also hope visitors will reflect on the amazing documentarians who pointed their cameras at hip-hop when it was still a subculture. I want to highlight the photographers, who, like their mu