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    Annual Conference 2024

    • Repair, Prepare
    • Program

    October 10 to 12, 2024

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    Repair, Prepare

    The Transformative Potential of the Arts and the Operationality of their Temporality

    Artists and cultural practitioners are confronting the social, political and ecological crises of the present with specific practices whose transformative potential has been widely discussed by art and cultural institutions in recent years. Aspects of reparation and preparation in particular have also become the focus of art theory debates. These approaches often go far beyond simply pointing out grievances and disaster scenarios. Rather, they explore new approaches that aim to create a space for dialog, understanding, consolation, reparation and empowerment. Implicitly and explicitly, these practices always use, assume and formulate different and differentiating concepts of time. They use time as material and resource, which require shaping and forming in the first place. Accordingly, a diverse picture can be drawn of overlapping time horizons and requirements, colliding time constraints and strategic long-term planning, end-time moods, tipping points that have been passed and acceleration effects, preparatory measures and delaying tactics, through to euphoric renewals of technological progress ideologies โ€“ in short, a juxtaposition of standstill, simultaneity and acceleration.

    The annual conference of the doctoral program Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices is dedicated to the reflection of concepts of time in contemporary aesthetic practices with regard to a general transformative potential. Current references to time and their performance in the arts are to be viewed as fundamentally intertwined.

    Locations:

    Toni-Areal, Zurich University of the Arts, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zurich
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/Uzx1c53HK8e6Pevh9

    Semper Observatory, Collegium Helveticum, ETHZ, Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zurich
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/FsFC8ebyffU8nLRe7

    Program

    • Thursday, October 10

      Location: Toni-Areal, Hรถrsaal 1 (Z.K01)

      • 4:45 pm: Opening of the conference
        Judith Siegmund

      • 5:00 pm: Keynote
        Kodwo Eshun: tba (Moderation Fabienne Liptay)

      • 6:00 pm: Keynote
        Silvy Chakkalakal: tba (Moderation Benno Wirz)

      • 7:00 pm: Apรฉro Riche

    • Friday, October 11

      Location: Semper Observatory, Meridiansaal

      • 10:00 am: Lecture
        Birgit Eusterschulte: Geschichte reparieren? Kรผnstlerisches Historisieren als intervenierende Praxis (Moderation Mirjam Steiner)

        11:00 am: Pause

      • 11:30 am: Lecture
        Nisaar Ulama: Racing the Singularity. Louis Chude-Sokei รผber Technologie und Rassismus als historisches Kontinuum (Moderation Lorenz Mayr)

        12:30 pm: Lunch break

      • 2:00 pm: Lecture
        Anna Bromley: Erzรคhlen, Zuhรถren, Editieren und Lesen als Zeitpraxen in A Voice Exists in Voicing (Moderation Polina Stohnushko)

        3:00 pm: Break

      • 3:30 pm: Lecture
        Neele Illner: Aktiver Passivismus im mรผndlichen Erzรคhlen (Moderation Madlyn Sauer)

        4:30 Uhr: Break

      • 5:00 Uhr: Lecture
        Michael Fesca: Schrill โ€“ einfach groovy! Zu Zeitlichkeiten, Narrationen und Bildern lรคssiger Zukรผnfte (Moderation Guido Staudacher)

    • Saturday, October 12

      Location: Semper Observatory, Meridiansaal

      • 10:00 am: Lecture
        Lorenz Mayr & Guido Staudacher: Vico und Herder. Zur Gegenwรคrtigkeit historischen Denkens in der ร„sthetik (Moderation Dominique Raemy)

        11:00 am: Break

      • 11:30 am: Lecture
        Marcus Quent: Gegenwartskunst am Scheitelpunkt von Globalem und Planetarischem (Moderation Dario Spilimbergo)

        12:30 pm: Lunch break

      • 2:00 pm: Interactive lecture
        Steph Holl-Trieu & Carina Erdmann: Temporal Worlding (Moderation Mats Werchohlad)

      • 3:00 pm: Final discussion

        4:00 pm: End of conference