Cities in the Middle East have been on the move for many months. Not only politics and economy are at stake, but also cultural activities and artistic practice.
Festsalen, Schools of Visual Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Kongens Nytorv 1, Copenhagen
Programme
Morning — coordinated by Carsten Juhl
10:00–10:10 — Welcome by Mikkel Bogh, Rector, Schools of Visual Art.
10:10–10:25 — A World in Crisis: Possibilities for Art and Culture by Carsten Juhl.
10:25–11:00 — The Projects Shown at La Biennale di Venezia 2011 and at Rivoli in Turin by Aida Eltorie.
11:00–11:20 — Discussion.
11:20–12:00 — The Significance of Freedom: Making an Essay Film about Cairo by Truls Lie.
12:00–13:00 — Lunch break.
Afternoon — coordinated by Thomas Locher
13:00–14:00 — Jerusalem, the City of Cultures by Huda Imam.
14:00–15:00 — The Performative, the Participative and the Rest by Georges H. Rabbath, including Skype presentations by:
- Conor McGarrigle — Twitter Revolutions? The Role of Social Media in Popular Uprisings from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street via the London Riots
- Haig Aivazian — Art’s Ability to Actually Engage in Dialogue with this Political Moment
- Sandra Skurvida — Live Transmission: The Power of the Placeless Time
- Yazan Khalili — Presentation Around the Issue of Presentation Itself
- Hala Kanaan (Ramallah) and Stephanie Nur (Amman)
15:00–16:00 — Questions and discussion among all participants, led by Tijana Mišković.
16:00–16:15 — Differences and Analogies among Artistic Positions in Europe and in the Middle East. Conclusion by Thomas Locher.
Participants
Aida Eltorie (Cairo) — artist and curator; organiser of the Egyptian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, 2011.
Huda Imam (Jerusalem) — founder and director of the Center for Jerusalem Studies at Al-Quds University, and director of the Al-Quds University Jerusalem Programme for International Relations.
Truls Lie (Oslo) — critic, editor of DOX and publisher of Le Monde Diplomatique, Scandinavian edition.
Georges H. Rabbath (Beirut) — visual artist, writer and researcher; official curator of the Lebanese Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, 2011, where the art project The State of Mind was launched.
Organisers
Carsten Juhl (Copenhagen) — historian; Head of the Department of Art Theory and Communication, Schools of Visual Art.
Thomas Locher (Berlin and Copenhagen) — visual artist and professor, Schools of Visual Art.
Tijana Mišković (Copenhagen) — visual artist and independent curator.
The conference is open to the public. Free admission.
For more information: mail@tijanamiskovic.com