Symposium Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College Workshop
Black Mountain College (1933-1957) developed an unprecedented prominent genealogy of artists, scientists, and intellectuals in the neo-avant-garde of the 20th century. As an educational art institution, it established performative practices of interdisciplinary learning and researching, which included at least two crucial factors: collaboration and experimentation. This unique complicity of an educational turn and the emergence of an avant-garde is of crucial interest in today’s debates on issues of education and pedagogy in art, science, and academia under precarious economic circumstances.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 |
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| 18.00-19.00 |
Welcome and Exhibition Eugen Blume, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann |
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19.15-20.00 |
KEYNOTE: What is Research? James Elkins (School of the Art Institute Chicago | Chicago, USA) |
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20.15 |
Turntable Lecture Performance: Black Mountains of Vinyl – The Turntable and Compositional Thinking Matt Wright (School of Music and Performing Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University | Canterbury, UK) |
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 |
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10.00-10.30 |
Introduction: Black Mountain – Educational ´Turn and the Avantgarde in Past Tense Annette Jael Lehmann (Freie Universität Berlin | Berlin, Germany) |
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10.30-11.15 |
The Black Mountain College Experiment Revisited Eva Díaz (Pratt Institute | New York, USA) |
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11.15-12.00 |
Black Mountain College and the Aspects of the Musical Avantgarde Christa Brüstle (Kunstuniversität Graz | Graz, Austria) |
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12.00-12.15 |
Coffee break |
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12.15-13.00 |
Alien Agency – Techno-Science, Art and the Limits of Knowing Chris Salter (Concordia University | Montreal, Canada) |
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13.00-14.30 |
Lunch break |
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14.30-15.15 |
Art, Research, Experiment – the Academy Revisited Dieter Lesage (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound | Brussels, Belgium) |
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15.15-16.15 |
PANEL: Collaboration in Art, Education and Research Today (Moderation: Claudia Olk, Freie Universität Berlin) Eugen Blume (Museum Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin, Germany), Irene Campolmi (Curatorial Department, Louisiana Museum | Humlebæk, Denmark), Ingrid Commandeur (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam | Rotterdam, Netherlands), Julian Klein (Institut für künstlerische Forschung, Radialsystem V | Berlin, Germany), Gabriele Knapstein (Museum Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin, Germany), Markus Miessen (University of Southern California | Los Angeles, USA), Nina Möntmann (Royal Institute of Art | Stockholm, Sweden), Patrick Müller (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste | Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 16.15-16.45 |
Coffee break |
| 16.45-17.30 |
Creative Practices of Knowlegde Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths, University of London | London, UK) |
| 17.30-18.15 |
Everyone Must Win – a Recall of Buckminster Fullers’ »World Game« Christina Kral (Ykon | Berlin, Germany), Yvonne Reiners (Performing Encounters | Berlin, Germany) |
Host: Mariama Diagne, Anna-Lena Werner (Freie Universität Berlin | Berlin, Germany)
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A symposium of Freie Universität Berlin and Dahlem Humanities Center in cooperation with Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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