10am-6pm, Friday 14 June 2013
Middlesex University, Hendon, Grove Building G229
This one-day practice research symposium sets out to explore the many articulations, explorations and manifestations of ‘liquidity’ in contemporary visual and material culture, history and theory. The event offers a unique opportunity for practitioners, researchers and scholars working across different fields to engage with any topic related to ‘liquidity’ broadly conceived. Speakers include Anna Dezeuze (Marseilles), Luis-Manuel Garcia (Berlin), Lilian Haberer (Cologne), Helen Hester (Middlesex), Roman Kirschner/Marcel Finke (Vienna), Julie Mcleod/Elizabeth Lomas (Northumbria), Kassandra Nakas (Berlin), Lucia Vodanovic (Middlesex), Simon Weaver (Brunel), with keynote and plenary presentations from Uriel Orlow (artist and Senior Research Fellow, University of Westminster) and Mark Davis (Founder and Director of the Baumann Institute, University of Leeds).
Liquid modern life is a daily rehearsal of universal transience. Today’s useful and indispensable objects, with few and possibly no exceptions, are tomorrow’s waste. Everything is disposable, nothing is truly necessary, nothing is irreplaceable. Everything is born engraved with the brand of death. Everything is offered with a use-by date attached. All things, born or made, human or not, are until further notice dispensable. Paraphrasing an old and famous statement, I would say that a spectre hovers over the liquid modern world, over its denizens and all their labours and creations; and that is the spectre of redundancy.
Zymunt Bauman, ‘Liquid Arts’, in Theory, Culture and Society, 2007, v.24(1): 117-126
Uriel Orlow The Future is History / History is the Future (2012)
PROGRAMME
09.30 REGISTRATION
09.50 WELCOME
10.00 KEYNOTE
Dr Uriel Orlow University of Westminster, London
Liquid Times, Porous Spaces, Gaseous Images
11.00 SESSION I
Dr Kassandra Nakas Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetik, Universität der Künste Berlin
Liquid Thoughts and Liquid Bodies
Dr Anna Dezeuze Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée
Liquid or Fluid? On Dematerialised Art & Capital Flows Since the 1950s
Dr Lucia Vodanovic Middlesex University London
Building from Obsolescence: Architecture, Value and Exchange
Professor Julie McLeod & Elizabeth Lomas Northumbria University
The Liquid Record in a Digital Age
12.40 LUNCH
13.30 SESSION II
Dr Lilian Haberer University of Cologne
Leap into Liquidity – Volatile Time and Place in Sebastian Stumpf’s Bridges
Roman Kirschner & Marcel Finke University of Applied Arts Vienna
Liquid Things: Practice-based Research on Transitive Materials and New Materialisms
Steve Fossey Middlesex University London
Liquid Subjects, Liquid Place – The Fluid State of Social Space
Paula Varanda Middlesex University London
Dance Performance in Cyberspace: Anxieties of Dissolution in the Free World of Hybrid Art
15.15 BREAK
15.30 SESSION III
Dr Luis-Manuel Garcia Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Liquidarity: Fluid Solidarities in Nightlife Scenes
Helen Hester Middlesex University, Mauritius
Screening Sensation: On Pornography and Liquidity
Dr Simon Weaver Brunel University, London
Strangers, ‘Others’ and the Unstable Metaphors of Race Representation in Liquid Modernity: The Case of the Gypsy Weddings
17.00 PLENARY
Dr Mark Davis Baumann Institute, University of Leeds
The Art of Liquid Sociology
18.00 CLOSE & RECEPTION
Organised by susan pui san lok and the ADRI Postgraduate Forum, with thanks to Clare Barry, Alison Manly, Marianne Markowski, and Harry Willis-Fleming. Supported by ADRI, the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University.
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