Conference, Workshop

Summer Seminar: Contemporary Art and the Global Age

2009-06-21 - 2009-07-01

Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg
and
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

The public session on Sunday, June 28, 2009 will take place at:

ZKM_Media Theater
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstrasse 19
D-76135 Karlsruhe, Germany

This international seminar will serve to analyze the impact of art’s globalization on institutions and criticism in different parts of the world. Its aim is an exchange of individual and professional experience among the participants, following papers which they present in the seminar. It will also offer a general discussion of selected text materials among the participants. The results will be published in a volume of the ZKM GAM series whose first volume was edited by Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg in 2007 with the title Contempoary Art and the Museum. A Global Perspective.

The seminar aims to develop innovative spaces for knowledge, sharing and participation at the newly developed database of the project GAM. We intend this event to provide a valuable source of feedback for the participants’ current work and to create a network for future individual and collaborative projects.


Fellows: Ding Ning, Beijing; Patrick Flores, Manila; Anthony Gardner, London; Elizabeth Harney, Toronto; Agung Hujatnika, Bandung; Carol Lu, Beijing; Jesmael Mataga, Lesotho; Charles Merewether, Sydney; Elizabeth Rogers, New York; Samuel Sidibé, Bamako; Adele Tan, Singapore

Guests include: Waltraud Bayer [biography], Charlotte Bydler [biography], Mamadou Diawara [biography], Birgit Mersmann[biography], Annette Rein [biography], Julian Stallabrass [biography], Chin-tao Wu [biography], Hugo K. Weihe [biography], and Kitty Zijlmans [biography]

This seminar is supported by

Program

Public Event of the Internal and International GAM | Summer Seminar – Symposium: Contemporary Art and the Global Age

June 28, 2009 | 4pm | ZKM_Media Theater

Free Entry | Symposium Language: English

Program (subject to change):

4:00 Lecture: The Fracturing of Globalization
Julian Stallabrass, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

5:00 Talk: Inside Out: The Global Art Market Today
Hugo Weihe, Christie’s New York
Moderated by Hans Belting, Karlsruhe

6:00 Break

6:30 Presentation of the 12 International Fellows of the Summer Seminar and Panel Discussion: Inclusion/Exclusion in Art Exhibtions 1995 and Today
Moderated by Peter Weibel, ZKM | Karlsruhe

Program for the Internal Seminar

June 22 – June 30, 2009
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
and
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Preliminary Program

Monday, June 22, 2009

Opening Session

9:30-11:00
Presentation of the project GAM

11:30-12:30
Hans Belting, Karlsruhe: Mapping Global Art. Contemporaneity and the Art World

First Reading Session: The Visibility of Global Art

15:00-16:00
Patrick Flores, Manila: Field Notes on an Art World. Interest and Impasse

16:00-17:00 Guest, holder of Felix Burda Grant
Chin-Tao Wu, Taipei: Worlds Apart. Problems of Interpreting Globalised Art

17:30-18:30
Adele Tan, Singapore: The Third Text Story. Writing/Publishing as a Collective Work, Rasheed Araeen

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

First Paper Session: Mapping Global Art

9:00-10:00
Anthony Gardner, London: Whither the Postcolonial? Three Responses from Australia

10.00-10.30
Prof. Dr. Spiros Simitis, Director of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg: Welcome

10:30-11:30
Charles Merewether, Sydney: The Cultural District of Abu Dhabi. Reflections in Retrospect

12:00-13:00 Guest, holder of Felix Burda Grant
Chin-Tao Wu, Taipei: Art and the Spectacular: Biennials sans frontières

Second Reading Session: Globalism and World Art History

14:30-15:30 Guest
Charlotte Bydler, Stockholm: The Globalization of Globalization

15:30-16:30 Guest
Kitty Zijlmans, Leiden: History of Art in a Global Perspective

16:30-17:00 Guest
Anette Reins, Frankfurt: The Ethnological Museum Today. A Personal Estimate

17:30-18:30
Anthony Gardner, London: From World Art to Global Art

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Second Paper Session: Art from Africa. Three Scenarios

9:30-10:30
Elizabeth Harney, Toronto: Contemporary Musings: Problems at the National Museum of African Art in Washington

10:30-11:30
Samuel Sidibé, Bamako: The Contemporary Art Collection at the Musée National du Mali

12:00-13:00
Andrea Buddensieg, Karlsruhe: Jean-Hubert Martin and Africa. The Impact of the Year 1989

Third Reading Session: Biennial Art versus Popular Painting in Africa

15:00-16:00 Paper
Jesmael Mataga, Losotho: Tackling the Beasts: The Zimbabwean Experience

16:00-17:00 Guest
Mamadou Diawara, Frankfurt: Bogumil Jewsiewicki’s Views on Popular Art in Zaire

17:30-18:00
Hans Belting, Karlsruhe: The Case of Cheri Samba

18:00-19:00
Elizabeth Harney, Toronto: Passport to the Global Art World: The Emergence of Dak’Art

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Third Paper Session: Asianess? The Emerging Role of South-East Asia

9:30-10:30
Patrick Flores, Manila: The Masriadi Effect: Skill, Sensibility, Scale

10:30-11:30
Agung Hujatnika, Bandung: Indonesian Contemporary Art in the International Arena (1998 – 2008): A Desired Representation

12:00-13:00
Adele Tan, Singapore: Alternate Circuits: Performance Art Festivals in Singapore

Friday, June 25, 2009

Fourth Paper Session: Post-Traditional Conditions. China and India in Comparison

9:30-10:30
Carol Lu, Beijing: Back to Normal. The Aftermath of 1989 in China

10:30-11:30
Elizabeth Rogers, New York: Cross-Cultural and Trans-National Curatorial Missions: India in Context

12:00-13:00
Ding Ning, Beijing: Suddenly Modern: Traditional Chinese Aesthetics in Transformation at the Beijing 2008 Olympics

Fourth Reading Session: After the Avant-Garde. New Narratives of Chinese Art?

15:00-16:00 Guest
Birgit Mersmann, Bremen/Basel: Global Routes. Transmediation and Transculturation as Key Concepts of Translation Studies

16:00-16:30
Hans Belting, Karlsruhe: Martina Köppel-Yang, The Chinese Avant-Garde, 1979-1989

17:00-18:00
Carol Lu, Beijing: Wang Hui, „New Criticism“ in: Chaohua Wang, One China, Many Paths

18:00-19:00
DING Ning, Beijing: Water and Stone: On the Role of Expression in Chinese Art

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Public Session at ZKM_Media Theatre
16:00-21:00

Monday, June 29, 2009

Fifth Reading Session at ZKM: Contradictions

9:30-10.30 Guest
Julian Stallabrass, London: The Rules of Art Now

10:30-11:30
Agung Hujatnika, Bandung: Apinan Poshyananda, The Future: Post-Cold War, Postmodernism, Postmarginalia

11:30-12:30 Guest
Waltraud Bayer, Vienna/Graz: Moscow Contemporary – Art, Patrons, Institutions

16:00-18:00
Closing Discussion