—Not a day without a line. Artists’ words and writings
Programme:
Tuesday 8 November. School of Arts (KASK), University College Ghent. Belgium
9.00 registration, coffee
9.20 welcome by Steven Jacobs, head of Ghent University Association Research Unit “Creation, Context and Mediation in the Visual Arts” and professor at Ghent University (BE)
9.30 keynote address by Kristine Stiles, professor at Duke University, Durham (US)
“I’m ready.” Thinking about artist’s writings in a global context
10.20 Nanda Janssen, curator and writer (NL)
Artists’ correspondence
11.00 coffee break
11.20 Laurent Busine, director of MAC’s, Grand-Hornu (BE)
Conversations
11.50 Carson & Miller (Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller), artists’ duo and lecturers at University of Salford (UK)
Textual dialogue: on game-playing and collaboration
12.20 discussion moderated by Johan Pas, lecturer at Artesis University College Antwerp (BE)
12.50 lunch break
14.00 Simon Deakin, doctoral researcher at University of Leeds (UK), interviews Wilfried Huet, editor and founder of GAGARIN magazine (BE)
Words are no help – is the artist’s text a genre or a concept?
14.50 Susan Jarosi, assistant professor at University of Louisville (US)
Keeping score: considering performance texts as artists’ writings
15.20 Eva Ehninger, assistant professor at Universität Bern (CH)
“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths”. Aesthetic discourse as (and in) the artistic practice of Bruce Nauman
15.50 coffee break
16.10 Anouk De Clercq, artist and lecturer at University College Ghent (BE)
Correspondence
16.40 Mark Manders, artist and editor-in-chief of Roma Publications (NL)
Hallway with sentences / landmark with colours
17.10 discussion moderated by Johan Pas, lecturer at Artesis University College Antwerp (BE)
17.40 dinner break
19.30 video screening of Elmgreen & Dragset, Drama queens (2007)
Wednesday 9 November
9.00 coffee
9.20 welcome by Wim De Temmerman, dean of School of Arts, University College Ghent (BE)
9.30 Didier Semin, professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR)
Marcel Duchamp – should the artist go to college?
10.00 Helena De Preester, postdoctoral researcher at University College Ghent (BE), interviews Philip Huyghe, artist and doctoral researcher at University College Ghent (BE)
Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit
10.30 coffee break
10.50 Dorothee Wagner, doctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Dissolution of the concrete. The writings of Robert Smithson and his contemporaries
11.20 Philippe Van Cauteren, director of S.M.A.K. (BE)
A letter to: …
11.50 discussion moderated by Hans Theys, lecturer at University College Ghent (BE)
12.20 lunch break
14.00 Philippe Van Cauteren, director of S.M.A.K. (BE)
Presentation of Marcel Broodthaers’ works on the relationship between image and language
More info, directions:
http://notadaywithoutaline.wordpress.com/
