Interventions is an informal and open symposium that allows scholars and thinkers to present their recently finished work and their work in progress. Interventions thrives on the unexpected juxtapositions and clashes that result from addressing a wide range of philosophical and political issues such as autonomy, economy, finitude, aporias, capitalism, and many more. Interventions does not limit itself to a specific discipline and welcomes all intriguing papers from Switzerland and abroad.

SCHEDULE

14:00 Methods of tricksters in Húsavík, or: how to find new forms of intervening. Anabel Sarabi

14:45 Remembering Mnemosyne. Jacob Miller

15:30 On Thinking. Julia Hölzl

16:15 Appropriation: Ich und […] die Frage der Aneignung. Daniel Marti

17:00 Perhaps this time we have gone too far. Luce deLire / benedikt wahner

17:45 “When the Forms of Musick change, ’tis a Promise of civil Disorder.” Christian Hänggi

18:30 Geo-strategic vectors influencing the crossing of the Central Alps in the High Middle Ages. Gian Trepp

19:30 Barbecue

For full program see PDF below.

Interventions is organized by Christian Hänggi.

Interventions is an informal and open symposium that allows scholars and thinkers to present their recently finished work and their work in progress. Interventions thrives on the unexpected juxtapositions and clashes that result from addressing a wide range of philosophical and political issues such as autonomy, economy, finitude, aporias, capitalism, and many more. Interventions does not limit itself to a specific discipline and welcomes all intriguing papers from Switzerland and abroad.

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SCHEDULE

Time

14:30 TBA. Peter Price

15:15 first person view: overserving. imitating. implying. imagining. Balz Isler

16:00 A Bibliography of Emotions. Deneige Nadeau

16:45 Hard Eyes, Myopic Eyes and Weeping Eyes: Cixous and Derrida. Dennis Schep

17:30 Vulnerability as Quotidian Intervention. Cara Judea Alhadeff

18:15 Preparing for the Bottleneck: Wall-E and the Management of Human Finitude. John Calvelli

19:00 and onward: barbecue at Corner College

For detailed program see below.

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After the first INTERVENTIONS at end of May this will be the second edition organized by Christian Hänggi at Corner College.

4/5 December 2015

The second day of the symposium, on Saturday, 5 December, is taking place at Corner College.

On the occasion of Monica Ursina Jaeger’s solo show Future Archaeologies – Your Assumptions are my Memories at Christinger De Mayo, Zurich, we organise a guerrilla symposium to discuss the possibilities and problems of the “fiction as method – complex”.

Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating. The past, for example, is filled with repeating cycles of strength and weakness, wisdom and stupidity, empire and ashes. To study history is to study humanity. And to try to foretell the future without studying history is like trying to learn to read without bothering to learn the alphabet.
From: Octavia E Butler: „A Few Rules for Predicting the Future“

When the Venice Biennale claims to discuss “All the Worlds Futures”, it becomes clear that the methodologies of fiction are no longer just part of the artistic practice, but also of curating, social science and global media.


http://www.muj.ch/Symposium


When the Venice Biennale claims to discuss “All the Worlds Futures”, it becomes clear that the methodologies of fiction are no longer just part of the artistic practice, but also of curating, social science and global media.

With accelerated globalization, the concomitant influence of digital culture and its accessible worlds of knowledge, within the last 25 years, disparate cultures, knowledge and art worlds have become interconnected and contemporaneous with each other. There are many co-existing ways of being in time and belonging to it. Thus, while being increasingly aware of being in the present, we are becoming attentive to other kinds of time. As a consequence, we seem to be living in an expanded present. But how far back – and forth – in time does the durational extension of our present reach?

The symposium brings together artists, curators, writers, critics and other voices to explore how fiction could be defined in regard to their practices, whether through the creation of fictional narratives, concepts fabricated around temporalities or the actual challenging of space-time relations.

Organized by artist Monica Ursina Jäger and curator/writer Damian Christinger.

Free entry, no booking required



Programme:

Friday 4 December

Venue: Christinger De Mayo, Ankerstrasse 24, 8004 Zurich

11.00-12.00 Session 1 Artist Talk and discussion: Monica Ursina Jäger in conversation with Kathleen Bühler (curator Kunstmuseum Bern)


Individual lunch



Venue: FRICTION, Nordflügel Gessnerallee, Gessnerallee 8, 8001 Zürich

13.00-13.30 Session 2 and discussion: Heiko Schmid, art historian / curator
13.45-14.15 Session 3 and discussion: Alexandra Navratil, artist
14.30-15.00 Session 4 and discussion: Sarah Zürcher, art historian/curator/critic
15.15-15.45 Session 5 and discussion: Emily Rosamond, artist

Break and informal discussion

19.45-20.45 Session 6 Art and Argument organised / chaired by Aoife Rosenmeyer
with: Daniel Blochwitz, Damian Christinger, Emily Rosamond, Eduardo Simantob


Break and informal discussion



Saturday 5 December

Venue: Corner College, Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zurich

14.00-14.30 Session 7 and discussion: Eduardo Simantob, author and scenario writer
14.45-15.15 Session 8 and discussion: Stefan Zweifel, critic and curator
15.30-16.00 Session 9 and discussion: Dimitrina Sevova, curator / writer
16.15-16.45 Session 10 and discussion: Roger Buergel, Johann Jacobs Museum and Damian Christinger, curator/writer
17.00-17.30 Roundtable and Conclusions

Locations
Galerie Christinger De Mayo, Ankerstrasse 24, 8004 Zurich
FRICTION, Nordflügel, Gessnerallee 8, 8001 Zürich
Corner College, Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zurich

Information and Contact
Fiction As Method Symposium Website
Damian Christinger, damian@christingerdemayo.com 079 253 45 28
Monica Ursina Jäger, monica@muj.ch 078 723 83 32

Detailed program and additional materials


Friday, 27 October, 12:30h doors open, coffee / tea / buffet

13:00h Introduction by the curators

13:30h Artist Talk Performance as Book. Book as Performance by Martina-Sofie Wildberger in conversation with Georg Rutishauser in the context of her personal exhibition at Corner College and her collaborative book project with edition fink / Georg Rutishauser.

14:00h Session 1 Performing the Curatorial / Curating Performance with Chris Regn, Madeleine Amsler, Sibylle Omlin and Elise Lammer, moderated by Irene Müller
16:05h panel discussion

17:15h Performances by Heike Fiedler and Nathalie Rebholz

18:50h Keynote Inputs by Linda Cassens Stoian and Federica Martini

Saturday, 28 October, 10:30h doors open, coffee / tea / croissants
11:00h Session 2 Performative (Un)Learning – Performance as Teaching with Donatella Bernardi, San Keller, Kamen Stoyanov, Axelle Stiefel, moderated by Bernadett Settele
12:50h lunch break
13:35h panel discussion

14:45h Performances by Katharina Swoboda and Kamen Stoyanov

16:15h Session 3 What’s Wrong with Performance Art – Strategies in the Performative with Valerian Maly, Voin de Voin, Camille Aleña, Lou Masduraud and Guillaume Pilet, moderated by Dimitrina Sevova
18:35h panel discussion

19:45h Performances by Camille Aleña and Delphine Chapuis Schmitz


Sunday, 29 October, 10:30h doors open, coffee / tea / croissants

11:00h Session 4 Performance Szenen / Scenes – Tribal & Translocal Networking with Milenko Lazic, Pascal Schwaighofer, Muda Mathis and Gilles Furtwängler, moderated by Chris Regn
12:50h lunch break
13:50h panel discussion

15:00h Performances by Dorothea Schürch and Voin de Voin

16:30h Session 5 Performative Tactics, Activism & Performance Politics with Mo Diener, Lia García, Angela Marzullo, Nathalie Rebholz, moderated by Denis Pernet
18:30h panel discussion

19:30h Performances by Gilles Furtwängler and Axelle Stiefel

20:40h Final report by the observer throughout the Sympodium, Andrea Saemann

curated by Dorothea Rust and Dimitrina Sevova,
co-curated by Denis Pernet



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The Sympodium sets up a two-and-a-half days live performative event that aims to provide a platform for presenting, discussing and performing Performance Art throughout a panel structure with an accent on moderated discussions and performances. The Sympodium strives to generate an energetic open space for aesthetic experience and exchange of knowledge between the current active practitioners in the field of Performance Art(s): artists, curators, performance study researchers, educators, and their publics. Those committed to Performance Art will share their practices, experience, reflections, thoughts, and research.

The Sympodium is a podium that encourages invited participants to give a very direct subjective response from the material objectives of the event itself. The Sympodium is quasi-academic and brings together practitioners inside and outside Academia to publicly present and discuss their practices and modes of articulation and action. The Sympodium operates within the local, interregional and international Performance Art scene. It strives for different perceptions and a new ontology of the relation between Performance and Art, and a pattern of branching that expands the field of live practices.

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Das Sympodium stellt in einer zweieinhalbtägigen performativen Live-Veranstaltung eine Plattform zur Verfügung zum Präsentieren, Diskutieren und Performieren von Performance Art, in einer Podiumsstruktur mit Schwerpunkt auf moderierten Diskussionen und Performances. Das Sympodium strebt danach, einen energischen offenen Raum zu erzeugen für ästhetische Erfahrung und den Wissensaustausch zwischen den heute aktiven Praktiker_innen im Bereich der Performance Art(s): Künstler_innen, Kurator_innen, sowie Forscher_innen und Pädagog_innen zu Performance, und ihr Publikum. Jene, die der Performance Art verpflichtet sind, teilen ihre Praktiken, Erfahrungen, Überlegungen, Gedanken und Forschung.

Das Sympodium lädt als Podium die Teilnehmer_innen ein, aus den materiellen Zielen des Ereignisses selbst eine sehr direkte subjektive Antwort zu geben. Das Sympodium ist quasi-akademisch und bringt Praktiker_innen inner- und ausserhalb der akademischen Welt zusammen, um ihre Praktiken und ihre Artikulations- und Aktions-Modi öffentlich vorzustellen und zur Diskussion zu stellen. Das Sympodium operiert mit der lokalen, interregionalen und internationalen Performance Art-Szene. Es streicht unterschiedliche Wahrnehmungen heraus und erarbeitet eine neue Ontologie des Verhältnisses zwischen Performance und Kunst, in einem Verzweigungsmuster, welches das Feld der Live-Praktiken erweitert.



The Sympodium is supported by Kultur Stadt Zürich, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia and Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung.