Symposium on object-event-peformance since the 1960s

"Revisions: Object - Event - Performance since the 1960s"
Bard Graduate Center, Lecture Hall
Monday, September 21, 2015
11:15am - 6:00pm

In the 1960s, the art world and its objects began to experience a
dramatic shift in what and how art can be.  New modes of artistic
expression articulated through Fluxus activities, happening,
performance, video, experimental film and the emerging practices of
media art questioned the idea of a static object that endures
unchanged and might thus be subject to a singular interpretation.
Different from traditional visual arts, the blending genres and
media in art since the 1960s began to transform not only curatorial
and museum collecting practices, but also the traditional function
and mandate of conservation, now augmented to accept the inherent
dynamism and changeability of artworks.

Can Fluxus be musealized?  How to conceive of the afterlives of
performance?  How to negotiate the continuity of experimental film
in between the visual and cinematic cultures?  How to locate new
media beyond the paradigmatic singularity and uniqueness of
traditional "objects?" Can the notion of conservation be sustained?
Engaging in what might be called an expanded curatorial and
conservation discourse, this symposium brings together international
scholars in visual and performing arts, film, media, curatorial and
conservation studies to debate aspects of continuity and change in
artworks on the occasion of the Focus Gallery exhibition
Revisions-Zen for Film.

Symposium program

    11:15 - 11:25am             Introduction

    11:25am - 12:00pm           "Zen for Film: Object, Event,
                                Performance, Process"

                                    Hanna Halling
                                    2013-2015 Andrew W. Mellon
                                    Visiting Professor, Cultures of
                                    Conservation, Bard Graduate
                                    Center
                                    Visiting Scholar, MPIWG, Berlin

     12:00 - 1:30pm             Lunch Break

    1:30 - 2:05pm               "Between Objects and Performance:
                                Translating Artworks at the
                                Contemporary Art Museum"

                                    Glenn Wharton
                                    Clinical Associate Professor
                                     Museum Studies, New York
                                     University

    2:05 - 2:40pm
                                    Hannah Higgins
                                    Professor
                                    Chair of Art History, University
                                    of Illinois, Chicago
                                    Reperformance: A Typology

    2:40 - 3:15pm               Coffee Break

    3:15 - 3:50pm

                                "Restart: A Curatorial Perspective
                                on Generative and Variable Media Art
                                Works"

                                    Sarah Cook
                                    Reader and Curator
                                    University of Dundee

    3:50 - 4:25pm               "Philosophical Toys: Marcel Duchamp,
                                 Robert Breer and the Problem of the
                                 Moving Image for Institutions of
                                 Postwar Art"

                                    Andrew V. Uroskie
                                    Associate Professor,
                                    Director of Graduate Studies
                                    MA/PhD Program in Modern Art
                                    History, Criticism and Theory,
                                    Stony Brook University

    4:25 - 5:30pm               Panel Discussion

    5:30 - 6:00pm               Reception

To RSVP please visit

    <URL:http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/upcoming-events/revisions-symposium.html>

call 212-501-3019, or email academicevents<-at->bgc<.>bard<.>edu

For the exhibition, please see:

    <URL:http://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/gallery-at-bgc/revisions.html>

For the accompanying publication, please see:

    <URL:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo22329261.html>

Elina Bloch, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Research Programs
Bard Graduate Center
Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
38 West 86th Street
New York NY 10024
212-501-3076
Fax: 212-501-3065


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