Shared Campus Launch Event

Official Launch and Inaugural Conference

Shared Campus: Exposing the Assured, Transcending the Familiar, Daring the Uncertain
Dates: 5–7 December 2019
Hosting Institution: Zurich University of the Arts
Location: Zurich
Description: The foundation event of “Shared Campus” includes an official opening ceremony as well as a two-day conference to discuss and illustrate basic questions and principles of transcultural collaboration, which is the key motivation and working method of the whole initiative. The final presentations of the semester programme “Transcultural Collaboration” are embedded in the format. 
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Conference programme

5 December

Sharing

18:00–18:30 h
Opening Speeches: Thomas D. Meier, Daniel Späti and Nuria Krämer 

18:30–19:15 h
Art of Sharing, Art of Commoning
Keynote: Binna Choi

19:30–20:15 h
Cycles
Concert: Dimitri de Perrot & dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit)
 

6 December

Collaboration (in the Arts)

09:00–10:00 h
Lumbung
Keynote: Ade Darmawan

10:15–11:00
Frame it! – Methods for a democratic, collaborative practice
Intervention: Sabine Harbeke

11:15–12:45 h
Co-researching for alternative knowledge
Panel discussion: Annemarie Bucher, Sik Ying Ho and Yanki Lee
Moderated by Nuria Krämer
 

Dealing with Otherness

14:00–15:00 h
The other ghost story
Keynote: Jeroen de Kloet and Yiu Fai Chow

15:15–16:15 h
Crossing kingdoms: Co-creating with nonhuman others
Panel discussion: Heather Barnett and Bo Zheng.
Moderated by Joëlle Bitton

16:30–18:00 h
Being other than we are … playing with perspective shifts and nonhuman subjectivities
Collective experiment: Heather Barnett

16:30–18:00 h
Reflection fig.3: Otherness
Artistic intervention and workshop: Mayumi Arai and Nina Willimann

20:00 h
Transcultural Collaboration 2019: final presentations
 

7 December

Coping with contradiction and uncertainty

09:00–10:00 h
Digital social innovation
Keynote: Audrey Tang

10:15–11:15 h
Cultures of address
Panel discussion: Zhao Chuan and Mihaela Dragan
Moderated by Jörg Scheller

11:30–13:30 h
Anatomy of a Conflict
Workshop: Tellervo Kalleinen

11:30–13:30 h
On the (im)possibility of long-distance artistic collaborations
Artistic intervention and workshop: Keng Chen, Wen-Chi Liu, Nikolai Prawdzic, Dino Radoncic, Nathalie Stirnimann and Stefan Stojanovic
 

Institutional framing – structure vs dynamics

14:30–15:30 h
Magic spaces
Keynote: Jerszy Seymour

15:45–17:00 h
Potentials and challenges of Shared Campus
Panel discussion: Venka Purushothaman, Oussouby Sacko and Jeremy Till 
Moderated by Swetlana Heger-Davis

20:00 h
Transcultural Collaboration 2019: final presentations