Esineja
Marek Tamm
Tutvustus
Introducing the lecture, Marek Tamm writes:
“Arvo Pärt and Juri Lotman lived and worked for decades within the same small cultural milieu, yet, as far as we know, they never met or commented on one another’s work. And yet, striking parallels can be found in their thinking. This lecture imagines a meeting that never took place and explores how Lotman’s cultural theory might shed new light on Pärt’s intellectual world and the ideas underlying his musical compositions.
Drawing on Pärt’s musical diaries and interviews, as well as Lotman’s writings, the lecture examines Pärt’s understanding of the relationship between part and whole through the lens of Lotman’s cultural theory. Both thinkers seem to share the conviction that the smallest element—a musical note or a sign—acquires meaning only within a larger whole; that creativity emerges from the tension between differences and opposites; and that past, present, and eternity can converge in a single moment.
Ultimately, these parallels lead to a deeper question: does this vision of wholeness also carry an ethical dimension? What does it mean to live in a world where no part exists entirely separate from the others?”
Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History at Tallinn University and Vice-President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the cultural history of medieval Europe, the theory and methodology of history, and cultural memory studies. He has recently published Breakthroughs in Cultural Psychology (ed. with Jaan Valsiner; Tallinn University Press, 2024), The Fabric of Historical Time (co-authored with Zoltán Boldizsár Simon; Cambridge University Press, 2023), The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (ed. with Peeter Torop; Bloomsbury, 2022,), A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli; Bloomsbury, 2020), Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval Baltic Sea Region (ed. with Anu Mänd; Routledge, 2019), Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier; Bloomsbury, 2019) and Debating New Approaches to History (ed. with Peter Burke; Bloomsbury, 2018).
Pricing
Tickets 12€/8€/25€ .
Transfer Tallinn-Arvo Pärdi Keskus-Tallinn
Book your transfer from Tallinn to Laulasmaa. At 13:45, the vehicle will depart from the car park next to Solaris in Tallinn (Teatri väljak 1) and stop at 14:00 at the Cirkle K car park in Haabersti (Paldiski mnt 106)*, arriving at the Arvo Pärt Centre 25 minutes before the event. The return journey will commence 15 minutes after the event concludes and will take you back to the original meeting point.
The price of a round trip is €20 per person.
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*another starting point possible by agreement, by writing to [email protected].
Tickets will not be refunded or swapped for other events.
Arvo Pärt Centre • Kellasalu tee 3, 76702 Laulasmaa, Harju, Estonia
