Organised by Camden Arts Centre
About this event
Camden Art Centre is pleased to premiere The Sad Life and Happy Death of Paper Napkin Holder Bear, a short film about a disposable intelligent object. Like Franz Kafka’s Odradek and Byron the Bulb in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity’s Rainbow, the titular character possesses profound awareness but limited agency. Using a range of animation methods, from hand-drawn to AI-generated, artist and novelist David Musgrave explores our emotional and ethical connections with animals, people and objects. After the screening, Musgrave will be in conversation with Professor Peter Hallward, a philosopher whose work focuses on political will, to discuss the film’s varied themes.
David Musgrave is an artist who lives and works in London. His novel Lambda was published by Europa Editions in 2022.
Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London.