Philosophy Department Colloquium Series
Matthew Goodwin
Philosophy Department
Northern Arizona University
Presents:
A Philosophy of Light and Space:
James Turrell’s Roden Crater Art Project
Thursday, September 19th
Liberal Arts Building, Room 136
3:45 – 5:00 pm
Roden Crater is a cinder cone volcano within sight of Sunset Crater between Flagstaff
and Williams, Arizona. It is a place of great natural beauty with views of the San
Francisco volcano field, Grand Canyon, Grand Falls, and Painted Desert. Here, for the
past 40 years, artist James Turrell has built dramatic “sky spaces,” rooms and tunnels
with openings oriented toward celestial and atmospheric phenomena. The place invites
visitors to witness their ways of seeing and to question their place in the cosmos. This
talk will introduce some of the intriguing philosophical issues that Turrell’s art makes us
confront.
For more information, please contact the Philosophy Department at 928-523-2648.