- Venue
- y Gaer
- Starts
- Saturday, December 11, 2021
- Ends
- Sunday, February 13, 2022
- Address
- Glamorgan Street, Brecon LD3 7DW
- Location
- Wales
- Organiser
- y Gaer, Brecon
A fragile thing, identity. Slippery when measured against others. A thing that appears to change as it merges with the background, blossoms and seems to fade. But like a mark made on a cave wall persists.
John Locke on Personal Identity** memory does seem to presuppose personal identity, and so cannot constitute a criterion of it. For another, identity is a transitive relation, while memory isn’t, so the latter cannot be a criterion of the former. Finally, there is the obvious worry that identity seems to persist through the loss of memory: it’s hard to believe that I would cease to exist were I to undergo amnesia.
Travelling with my friend to the dementia drop-in, on the way a repeated question was, ‘where are we going?’ when I gave no answer, the next comment was ‘ I shouldn’t exist, I can’t remember where I am going or where I have been’, so when I asked where do you think you are, the reply came ‘in the moment’. The place where art may be made
