Research and teaching in Performance and Performative Art
Based on the continual increase in the presence of performance art in exhibitions, the art market and in art theory debates, the symposium will reflect on how teaching and research that deals with performative art production can be conceptualized and carried out at an experimental art university. This reflection will be situated in Vienna, a key site of international performance history that can be linked to significant impulses in performance art through Viennese Actionism and contributions to feminist discourse. This conference will deal with a range of fields including art theory, teaching, research and curatorial practice, based on the idea that for decades already these fields have been subject to expansion and that remarkable overlaps between these fields have taken place. The conference will inquire into the practices and modes of operation that constitute this contemporary overlap of knowledge production.
Program
Friday 19 November 2010
9:30 Welcome I Rector Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
10:00 Presentation of the Symposium I Carola Dertnig, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
10:30 Reactivations: Toward a Hermeneutics of Performance Documentation I Philip Auslander
11:30 Transformations, Invasions and Pushing Boundaries I Martha Wilson
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Curating Performance I Barbara Clausen
14:30 Post-Performance: The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art I Carrie Lambert-Beatty
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Some Thoughts on Performative Emancipation I Judith Hopf
17:00 The Body as Archive/ The Archive as Body: Live Art in Los Angeles 1970-75, A Case Study I Amelia Jones
19:00 The hands that feed you I Veronika Merklein, Bernadette Anzengruber, Teresa Novotny I Performative Dinner
Saturday 20 November 2010
14:00 Performing Vienna I Susi Neuburger
15:00 Floating Gaps: Die Performance Chronik Basel als Versuch, Performance Kunst der 1970er Jahre zu
re-konstruieren I Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Margarit von Büren
16:00 Beyond "Huddle" I A conversation between Simone Forti and Carrie Lambert-Beatty
17:00 Panel on Teaching and Research in Performance and Performative Art I
Philip Auslander, Khadija Carroll, Amelia Jones, Constanze Ruhm, Lilo Nein, Hans Scheirl, Stefanie Seibold,
Andreas Spiegl, Students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Moderator: Carola Dertnig, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
18:30 Performance or Enactment I Andrea Fraser
20:30 Performances, Installations, Party by Students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna I To be announced
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Amelia Jones is keynote speaker Saturday, 20 November, 12 p.m., at the symposium "Gender Check - Narratives and Exhibition Practices" at MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien erstestiftung.org/gender-check
The conference will be held in both English and German.
Participants
Philip Auslander, performance theorist and professor at the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta.
Margarit von Büren, cultural theorist and research associate at the ICS, engaged in the research project archiv performativ.
Khadija Carroll, theorist, artist and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2010 recipient of the Newton International Fellowship.
Barbara Clausen, curator, art historian and visiting research fellow at The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University, Montréal.
Carola Dertnig, artist, associate professor for Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and part of the WWTF-Project Troubling Research - Performing Knowledge in the Arts.
Simone Forti, dancer, choreographer and writer who performs and teaches world wide. Visiting assistant professor in the World Arts and Cultures Department at UCLA.
Andrea Fraser, artist and teacher at the faculty of the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and Professor at the Department of Art at the University of California.
Sabine Gebhardt Fink, art theorist, curator and associate professor at the Department in Cultural Studies in the Arts in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Art Education at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Judith Hopf, artist and professor for Art at Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.
Amelia Jones, art historian, professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montréal.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, art historian and assistant professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Veronika Merklein, Bernadette Anzengruber, Teresa Novotny, artists and students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Lilo Nein, artist and part of the scientific-artistic staff working on "This Sentence Is Now Being Performed" at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Susanne Neuburger, art historian and senior curator at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.
Constanze Ruhm, artist and professor for Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Hans Scheirl, artist and professor for Contextual Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Stefanie Seibold, artist, teacher of Performative Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and part of the WWTF-Project Troubling Research - Performing Knowledge in the Arts.
Andreas Spiegl, theorist and vice rector for teaching and research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, art historian, curator and associate professor for Art History in the Institute for Art
Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Martha Wilson, artist and director of the Franklin Rurnace Archive, a downtown artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration and promotion of innovative installation, performace and time-based art practices.
Idea, concept and organization: Carola Dertnig, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein Scientific-artistic staff member and coordinator: Lilo Nein
Project management: Dunja Reithner
Project management assistant: Susi Krautgartner
Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in cooperation with the Institute of Fine Arts and the WWTF Project Troubling Research - Performing Knowledge in the Arts
Imprint: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Institute of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Print: alwa & deil
Layout: Nina Herlitschka, Arnold R. Müller
Editor: Lilo Nein
Proofreading: Erika Doucette
Performances:
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