Nida Doctoral School 2015: Smoke and Mirrors - Staged Arguments and the Legitimation of Artistic Research
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PROGRAMME
Monday, October 19
9 - 10 am Greet & meet of the participants, presentation of the structure of the courses.
“Methodological Abundance: Staging Methods in front of a Committee”
by Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius
Synopsis
During his lectureMichelkevičius will trigger self-reflection about methods and methodologies used by artists. Artistic research is still treated as "smoke and mirrors" in many disciplines and it is only up to us to show our stance on the field and its relation to other domains of inquiry and art practice.
10 - 10:45 am Lecture
10:45 - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 – 12:45 pm Presentation of individual task
1 - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 - 5:30 pm Workshop / Individual tutorials
6 - 7 pm Presentation, discussion and feedback on the results of the workshop
Tuesday, October 20
“Autofiktion” by Ingo Niermann
Synopsis
Lecture deals with the subject matter called “autofiktion”. As soon as we write about our own future, we invariably make a bet: Which of these things can we achieve, which can we prevent? Fiction does not imitate life, but life imitates fiction. Some stories are too good not to be true.
10:00 - 10:45 am Lecture
10:45- 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Discussion and methodology presentation
3 - 5 pm Workshop
6 - 7 pm Presentation, discussion and feedback on the results of the workshop
8 - 9 pm Dinner
Wednesday, October 21
“Materialised philosophy: staged arguments, transtextuality and material hermeneutics in art and design” by Julijonas Urbonas
Synopsis
What would happen to philosophy if it’s turn to things hypertrophied, and philosophical thought models turned to things?How would a philosopher-engineer, philosopher-cook, or philosopher-artist look like? What effect it would have on human condition and material environment? By discussing these questions, we will speculate upon the idea of thingly philosophy, namely, its methodology. The latter will involve various methods, thought models, and approaches borrowed from science fiction, speculative design, futurology and Julijonas Urbonas’s own practice. Special attention will be devoted to non-linguistic approaches and their artistic manifestations.
10:00 - 10:45 am Lecture
10:45 -12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Discussion and methodology presentation
3 - 5 pm Workshop
6 - 8 pm Presentation, discussion and feedback on the results of the workshop
8 - 9 pm Dinner
Thursday, October 22
“Users and Usership of Art: Challenging Expert Culture” by Stephen Wright
Synopsis
Usership has emerged over the past two decades as an increasingly central category of political and cultural subjectivity. Though by no means new — we have been making use of tools and words and things odd and sundry since time immemorial — this usological turn has given usership renewed significance in an era of user-generated knowledge, content and value, often unbeknownst to the community of users themselves, challenging at least three conceptual institutions of contemporary ideology: spectatorship, expert culture and ownership. From the perspective of expert culture, users are not only opportunistic (opportunivores, as it were) but invariably misusers. This begs the question as to an emancipated mode of opportunity-determined action and a certain epistemic “privilege” based on use. And what about art’s use value at a time when an increasing number of practitioners are gearing their practices less toward spectatorship than toward genuine usership?
10:30 - 11:30 am Workshop #1. Usership: challenging the epistemocracy
11:30 - 1 pm Lunch
1 - 2:30 pm Workshop #2. “Usership: Intercerebral Collaboration”
3 - 4:30 pm Workshop #3. “Usership: deactivating art’s aesthetic function, activating its heuristic function”
4:30 - 6 pm Break with an optional skype session with Timothy Ingold about the the text “Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life”
6 - 7 pm Presentation, discussion and feedback on the results of the workshop with Stephen Wright
8 - 9 pm Dinner
Friday, October 23
“The Ceremony of the Voice” by Piersandra di Matteo
Synopsis
This lecture focuses on the topology of speech, a spacing of resonance and a renvoi between bodies, beginning with the notion of curatorial activities as imaginative systems based on human interactions and the physical possibilities of bodies.
10:00 - 10:45 am Lecture
10:45 - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Workshop #1. The workshop series exploring the nature of voice and its ineradicable materiality, echoing in relational space.
3 - 4:30 pm Workshop #2.
4:30 - 6 pm Break
“Warming up” programme on the occasion of the opening the second building of the Nida Art Colony
6 - 6:30 pm Olivia Erlanger performance – lecture.
6:30 - 7 pm Linda Stupart performance – lecture.
7 - 7:30 pm Joanna Fiduccia performance – lecture.
7 - 8 pm Performative dinner “What’s in the Box?”.
8 - 11 pm Dinner and drinks
Saturday and Sunday, October 24-25
Departures and Farewells
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The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Goethe-Institut Vilnius.
All lectures, happenning every day during intensive courses, 10-10:45 am are public and everyone is invited to attend, but places are limited. In order to attend the lectures please register by sending your name and surname with the selected lecture title to juste@nidacolony.lt. Thank you and wellcome!