March 10, 2011

Seminar Schedule

Innovation in Art: Conditions and Processes

An International Nomad Seminar at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany

Schedule
Thursday 14 April
                18:00-20.00          Opening of exhibition “Davor Džalto: Facing New Faces of Icons”
                                                -Introductory remarks -  Bärbel Friedrich (Academic Director,
                                                Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald)
                                                -Introductory Remarks – Davor Džalto
Friday 15 April
                9:00                        Institutional Welcome: Bärbel Friedrich   
                9:05                        Seminar Welcome: Michelle Facos and Michael Astroh
                9:15                        Introduction: Nomad Seminars: Carmen Popescu
                                                                          (Université Paris I - Sorbonne)
                9:30                        Paper 1: "A Celluoid Base: Symbolic Meanings and/or
                                                              Technological Innovations in the Films of Karol
                                                              Hiller and Stefan Themerson"Irena Kossowska
                                                              (Institute of Arts & Humanities, Polish Academy
                                                              of Sciences)
                10:15                      Paper 2: Non Nova, Sed Nove: Reading the Balkan Baroques,
                                                               Davor Džalto (University of Niš)
                11:00                      Coffee Break
                11:30                      Paper 3: “From a Past Present to a Present Past: On Memory
                                                               and Detachment in the Photography of Heiko
                                                               Krause”, Heiko Krause (Ernst Moritz Arndt
                                                               Universität Greifswald)
                12:15                      Paper 4: “Beyond Deconstruction? On the Use and Meaning
                                                               of the Wall in the Architecture of Office Geers Van
                                                               Severen”, Bart Verschaffel (University of Gent)
                13:00                      Lunch Break
                14:30                      Paper 5: “Berlin. The Place to be for a Contemporary Art
                                                               Gallery in the 1990s?“Georg Meier
                                                               (Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald)
                15:15                      Paper 6: “On the Objectivity and  Subjectivity of
                                                               Innovation in Art”, Werner Fitzner
                                                               (Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität   Greifswald)
                16:00                      Coffee Break
                16:30-17:30          Panel discussion

Saturday 16 April
                9:30                        Workshop 1: Performance: "Performance Art and Body
                                                                       Politics" (discussion in German)
                                                 Moderators: Davor Džalto and Alexandra Karentzos
                                                         (Universität Trier; Fellow, Alfried Krupp
                                                         Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald )
                11:00                      Coffee Break
                11:30                      Workshop 2: Art: “Usedomer Künstler im Gespräch über ihre
                                                                        Arbeit vor und nach der Wende: Volker Köpp and
                                                                        Matthias Wegehaupt  
                                                                        (discussion in German)
                                                Moderator: Michael Astroh                                                               
                13:00                      Lunch Break
                14:30                      Workshop 3: Architecture: “Back to Origins: Reinventing
                                                                        the Architectural Object and Its Historiography”
                                                                        (discussion in English)
                                                 Moderators: Carmen Popescu and Bart Verschaffel
                16:00                      Coffee Break
                16:30-17:30          General Discussion: What did we learn? Where to go from here?
                                                Moderators: Facos, Kossowska, Popescu
18:00-20:00          Buffet dinner in the Kolleg

Scientific Chairs:              Prof. Dr. Michael Astroh (Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität
                                                Greifswald)
                                               
                                                Prof. Dr. Michelle Facos (Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington;
                                                Fellow, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald )