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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 – 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, Hörsaal 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: Apéro Riche

  • Friday, October 11

    Location: Semper Observatory, Meridiansaal

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

      11:00 am: Pause

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

      12:30 pm: Lunch break

    • 2:00 pm: Lecture
      Anna Bromley: Erzählen, Zuhören, 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 mündlichen Erzählen (Moderation Madlyn Sauer)

      4:30 Uhr: Break

    • 5:00 Uhr: Lecture
      Michael Fesca: Schrill – einfach groovy! Zu Zeitlichkeiten, Narrationen und Bildern lässiger Zukünfte (Moderation Guido Staudacher)

  • Saturday, October 12

    Location: Semper Observatory, Meridiansaal

    • 10:00 am: Lecture
      Lorenz Mayr & Guido Staudacher: Vico und Herder. Zur Gegenwärtigkeit historischen Denkens in der Ästhetik (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