“No strings attached”.

Exploring the relation between ethnography and contemporary arts.

Symposium

WO 28.10.2015 09:30 – 17:30

DO 29.10.2015 09:30 – 19:00

€20 / day tickets€35 / 2 days (lunch included) tickets

We present a series of artist talks by international artists with showcases of their work. How do you bring people, communities, and evolving landscapes before the camera with respect and integrity? What does it mean to practice anthropology in an era of superdiversity?

With o.a. Wapke Feenstra (NL), Alexis Destoop (B), Leora Farber (ZA), Le Peuple qui Manque (FR), Britt Hatzius (UK), Mekhitar Garabedian (SY/BE), Laurent Van Lancker (B), Miguel Peros dos Santos (P), An van. Dienderen (B), Susanne Weck (G), Genevieve Yue (US),..

PROGRAMME:

► Wednesday 28/10

9u30-10u – Registration & Coffee

10u-10u15 – Introduction colloquium and overview Day 1 (Kris Rutten)

10u15-12u00 – Opening lecture Genevieve Yue (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York) – Documentary’s Outsides: Scenes of Encounter in Contemporary Ethnographic Film Moderator: An van. Dienderen

12u-13u30 – Lunch(B)

13u30-15u15 – Performativity (panel discussion + screenings) Alexis Destoop – Britt Hatzius – Angela Olga Anderson. Moderator: Ive Stevenheydens

15u15-15u30 – Coffee(C)

15u30-17u15 – Identity (panel discussion + screenings) Mekhitar Garabedian – Meggy Rustamova – Pieter Geenen

Moderator: Pieter Van Bogaert

18u – 21u – Nocturne at Argos: Pieter Geenen – This land is my land. This land is your land + Opening Koen Theys & Gülsün Karamustafa – Mystic Transport

► Thursday 29/10

9u30-10u – Registration & Coffee

10u – 10u15 – Introduction colloquium and overview Day 2 (Kris Rutten)

10u15 – 11u45 – Opening lecture Leora Farber(Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg) Beyond the ethnographic turn: (re)-conceptualisations of, and approaches to, selfhood and otherness in the Dis-Location/Re-Location project Moderator: Kris Rutten

12u – 13u30 – Lunch

13u30-15u15 – Storytelling – Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzales Monroy – Eleonore de Montesquiou – Wapke Feenstra. Moderator: Els Opsomer

15u15 – 15u30 – Coffee

15u30 – 17u15 – SoundImageCulture as Practice -Presentation of projects and output of the artistic workspace SIC by Laurent Van Lancker, Miguel Peros dos Santos, An van. Dienderen and Susanne Weck

17u15-17u45: Closing remarks (Kris Rutten)

17u45-19u: Closing reception

Symposium organised by SoundImage Culture (SIC), KASK-School of Arts Ghent, Beursschouwburg, UGent, Platform 0090, LUCA School of Arts – campus Sint-Lukas Brussels, Argos – Centre for Art and Media and deBuren.