Counter-practice or Commodity?
A one-day symposium at Deichmanske library, Arne Garborgs plass, Oslo
January 17th, 15:00-19:00
Invited speakers include Sarat Maharaj (Professor of Visual Art & Knowledge Systems, Lund University & Malmö Art Academy, Sweden), Olivia Plender (artist based in Berlin) and Matthew Poole (Program Director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex, UK). The symposium will be moderated by Vanessa Ohlraun, Dean of Oslo Academy of Fine Art.
Artistic, academic and curatorial practices have, in recent years, often been discussed in terms of „knowledge production“. But what do we mean when we speak about these practices as “producing knowledge”? If we wish to affirm the potential of art as a thinking process, how should we understand the wider institutional context in which this process now operates? If we work in a knowledge economy, how should we understand the commodified form in which knowledge must then circulate? What are the alternatives to the emerging reality of cognitive capitalism?
The symposium aims to reflect on the understanding of artistic or cultural practice as knowledge production. This is to raise the question whether artistic, curatorial, or even academic practices can establish a counter-practice to processes of commodification.
_programm:
15.00-15.15 Registration
15.15-15.30 Welcome and introduction by Gerd Elise Mørland and Wiebke Gronemeyer
15.30-15.40 Introduction by Vanessa Ohlraun
15.40-16.30 Presentation by Olivia Plender, followed by a discussion with Vanessa Ohlraun
16.30-16.45 Coffee break
16.45-17.35 Statement by Matthew Poole, followed by a discussion with Wiebke Gronemeyer
17.35-18.00 Break. We serve soup and bread
18.00-18.50 Lecture by Sarat Maharaj, followed by a discussion with Vanessa Ohlraun
18.50-19.00 Closing remarks
The symposium is free. To sign up please e-mail symposiumdeichmanske@googlemail.com
The symposium is conceived by Wiebke Gronemeyer, Gerd Elise Mørland and Heidi Bale Amundsen in collaboration with Kunsthall Oslo.
Kindly supported by the Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Embassy in London (UK), Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The Freedom of Expression Foundation.
The symposium forms part of The Expanded Library, a collaborative project by Kunsthall Oslo with the Deichmanske library. The Expanded Library is kindly supported by The Freedom of Expression Foundation and Arts Council Norway.
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1. Introduction by Vanessa Ohlraun
2. Presentation by Olivia Plender
3. Statement by Matthew Poole
4. Lecture by Sarat Maharaj
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