lectures
Saturday 15th Sept
Christian Ruby - Essayist, Philosopher, Paris
During the summer of 2007, many exhibitions dealt with 'public art' and
its criticism through works by Lin Yilin, Jiri Kovanda, Malick Sidibé,
Valérie Jouve. While too many European cities still don’t care about
what is to be seen in their streets or spoil the space with ugly
polyurethane objects, some other cities face the problem of public art
and try to think about that. Among them, Münster focuses on the
following issue: a 'private' public art. It is then high time we cared
much about the res publica. Whom does public space belong to? What can
we do about it? How to intervene in it, and for whom? That does not mean
we are supposed to praise what is currently praised. An artistic
education is not only for the happy few, but definitely needs a long
time. Most of all, 'public art' deals with our willingness to understand
an art whose questions drive to question ourselves.
Tuesday 18th Sept
'MISGUIDED TOURS' - Sebastian Cichocki, Curator Gallerija Kronika Bytom,
Poland
17:00 'The space is the place' / lecture - duration: 90 minutes
break
'The economy of invisible' / workshop - duration: 30 minutes
chill-out: films by Igor Krenz + short introduction by Sebastian Cichocki
duration: 20 minutes
after: dinnerish+drinks
Wednesday 19th Sept
20:00 Green+House Effect / a screening of contemporary video-art from
Poland + introduction talk - duration: 90 minutes
break
music + talks + films by Lewandowska&Cummings, Julita Wójcik, Scott
Hayes and others.
Friday 21st Sept, 20.00
'Art in Public Space and New Artistic Strategies' Liz Bachhuber, founder
and teacher of the homonymous mfa program in Bauhaus-University Weimar
Prof. Liz Bachuber will introduce the Master of Fine Art: "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies" program and its concept, which was founded at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2001. In 2006 the MFA-Program was named one of the top ten international master programs in Germany. The goal in this program is to prepare artists for the particular challenge of working in the public realm; transdisciplinary theory regarding public space and discussion with professionals and experts accompany the artistic process. Additionally she will show some student works.
Tuesday 25th sept, 20.00
'On behalf of streets and squares'
Torsten Birne, architect and cocurator of public art projects e.g. 'Wild
Capital'
The so called work of artist Andreas Siekmann points out the history of
public art in West-Germany since the 1970's. Presented as a timeline
look a like a tram with several stations projects like documenta 1982 or
Firminy 1993 are indicated which played an important role for the
discussion of public art and its relations to politics in the same
period. After the presentation of the work by Andreas Siekmann I will
ask for the recent 'political site' of public art.
Thursday 27th sept, 20.00
'Public Space as a Verb'
Roman Dziadkiewicz, artist
The talk and the workshop is a proposal for training reflection dealing
with questions of power/weakness of ideology and aesthetics of
relations, context, dialogue (Bakhtin, Swidzinski, Bourriaud), which are
incorporated and capitalised by contemporary flexible structures of
power (in terms of administrator of rebel & consensus, as well as
distributor of public and private funds). The questions of how and why
the progressive and critical tools of social and cultural disagreement
(like participatory, laboratory, relational strategies or cultural /
political / institutional critics) are turning into forms of
legitimisation of self-modernising image of global power will be touched
(just as a starting point). In the same time there are some
ideas/aspects/ways/terms/alternatives/exercises for the
discussion/developing/effort I want to propose in those contexts e.g.
experimental/critical extending of the idea of relations.
The following issues will pointed out: touch, (forgotten) body, memory
and problem of will (Grotowski, Gurdjieff)) as potential tools for
acting in the public, the problem of negative potencial (Gillick) and
tensions in the field of power (Bourdieu) and its economy as well as an
economy of rebellion (with examples in: dance, rhythm science (Miller),
street fighting, love, shouting). Then if we take tensions -- the
question of conflict/war as a mother/father of everything and the
democracy particularly (Heraclitus, Laclau/Mouffe) and contemporary
claustrophobia (Virilio), taken from a provincial (and dynamic)
perspective in a view of post-colonial studies (Said, Thompson) as well
as our personal experiences and historical/cultural encumbrances, shame,
dreams, imaginations and hopes.
Tuesday 2nd Oct
Christian Ruby - Essayist, Philosopher, Paris
During the summer of 2007, many exhibitions dealt with 'public art' and
its criticism through works by Lin Yilin, Jiri Kovanda, Malick Sidibé,
Valérie Jouve. While too many European cities still don’t care about
what is to be seen in their streets or spoil the space with ugly
polyurethane objects, some other cities face the problem of public art
and try to think about that. Among them, Münster focuses on the
following issue: a 'private' public art. It is then high time we cared
much about the res publica. Whom does public space belong to? What can
we do about it? How to intervene in it, and for whom? That does not mean
we are supposed to praise what is currently praised. An artistic
education is not only for the happy few, but definitely needs a long
time. Most of all, 'public art' deals with our willingness to understand
an art whose questions drive to question ourselves.
Tuesday 18th Sept
'MISGUIDED TOURS' - Sebastian Cichocki, Curator Gallerija Kronika Bytom,
Poland
17:00 'The space is the place' / lecture - duration: 90 minutes
break
'The economy of invisible' / workshop - duration: 30 minutes
chill-out: films by Igor Krenz + short introduction by Sebastian Cichocki
duration: 20 minutes
after: dinnerish+drinks
Wednesday 19th Sept
20:00 Green+House Effect / a screening of contemporary video-art from
Poland + introduction talk - duration: 90 minutes
break
music + talks + films by Lewandowska&Cummings, Julita Wójcik, Scott
Hayes and others.
Friday 21st Sept, 20.00
'Art in Public Space and New Artistic Strategies' Liz Bachhuber, founder
and teacher of the homonymous mfa program in Bauhaus-University Weimar
Prof. Liz Bachuber will introduce the Master of Fine Art: "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies" program and its concept, which was founded at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2001. In 2006 the MFA-Program was named one of the top ten international master programs in Germany. The goal in this program is to prepare artists for the particular challenge of working in the public realm; transdisciplinary theory regarding public space and discussion with professionals and experts accompany the artistic process. Additionally she will show some student works.
Tuesday 25th sept, 20.00
'On behalf of streets and squares'
Torsten Birne, architect and cocurator of public art projects e.g. 'Wild
Capital'
The so called work of artist Andreas Siekmann points out the history of
public art in West-Germany since the 1970's. Presented as a timeline
look a like a tram with several stations projects like documenta 1982 or
Firminy 1993 are indicated which played an important role for the
discussion of public art and its relations to politics in the same
period. After the presentation of the work by Andreas Siekmann I will
ask for the recent 'political site' of public art.
Thursday 27th sept, 20.00
'Public Space as a Verb'
Roman Dziadkiewicz, artist
The talk and the workshop is a proposal for training reflection dealing
with questions of power/weakness of ideology and aesthetics of
relations, context, dialogue (Bakhtin, Swidzinski, Bourriaud), which are
incorporated and capitalised by contemporary flexible structures of
power (in terms of administrator of rebel & consensus, as well as
distributor of public and private funds). The questions of how and why
the progressive and critical tools of social and cultural disagreement
(like participatory, laboratory, relational strategies or cultural /
political / institutional critics) are turning into forms of
legitimisation of self-modernising image of global power will be touched
(just as a starting point). In the same time there are some
ideas/aspects/ways/terms/alternatives/exercises for the
discussion/developing/effort I want to propose in those contexts e.g.
experimental/critical extending of the idea of relations.
The following issues will pointed out: touch, (forgotten) body, memory
and problem of will (Grotowski, Gurdjieff)) as potential tools for
acting in the public, the problem of negative potencial (Gillick) and
tensions in the field of power (Bourdieu) and its economy as well as an
economy of rebellion (with examples in: dance, rhythm science (Miller),
street fighting, love, shouting). Then if we take tensions -- the
question of conflict/war as a mother/father of everything and the
democracy particularly (Heraclitus, Laclau/Mouffe) and contemporary
claustrophobia (Virilio), taken from a provincial (and dynamic)
perspective in a view of post-colonial studies (Said, Thompson) as well
as our personal experiences and historical/cultural encumbrances, shame,
dreams, imaginations and hopes.
Tuesday 2nd Oct
