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Land of Zero Seminar proposed schedule
Friday
11.00 – 11.20
Maud Cotter – Introduction The Land of Zero, 15 mins
Abstract
11.45 – 13.00
Rachel Warriner – Title, 20 mins
Abstract
Sigune Hamann – Changing Perception of Images, 20 mins
The dependence of new technologies on established concepts of perception, such as the central perspective of a photograph or the linearity of time, is slowly being eroded. A new grammar of artistic production comes into play that opens up a field of artistic exploration. Sigune Hamann will present work relating to the changing perception of images, including stillness and movement with a focus on her process of capturing dynamics of urban environments in panoramic film-strips.
Q&A moderated by Anthony Haughey until 1 pm.
14:00 – 14:45
Aengus Woods – Home and Homelessness: Speculations on the Language of Utopian Thought, 40 mins IN COMMUNICATION
Utopia means literally ‘no place’. Yet its homophone eutopia means ‘good place.’ This linguistic play cuts to the heart of the utopian paradox – a placeless zone of goodness. Nonetheless what if placelessness is less an obstacle to actualization than the very condition of its possibility? Touching on notions of home/beyond, inside/outside, public/private we will consider spatial rhetorics in poetry and art to ask whether alternate ways of using language might reveal new possibilities for action within that world.
15.00 – 16.00 – Survival Strategies
Padraig Spillane – In Terms of Another or How much do you say? 20 mins
Focusing on the influence of metaphor and other inventive comparisons; how does our use of language create the possibilities and environs for artistic practice? Particularly explored will be the unpredictable in relation to artistic practice and the facility of metaphor to reshape and elucidate on contemporary practice.
Pluck – Title – 20 mins
Abstract
Pallas Projects/finacial problem ????
Abstract?
Q&A moderated by Anthony Haughey until 4 pm.
Saturday
11.00 -13.00 Artist’s Presentations with Q&A Session.
Aisling O’Beirn – Proton Dancing (Zagreb 2013), 20 mins
In the 90’s physicists at the Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, conducted an experiment where information about the quantum state of one photon was teleported to another particle, one of an entangled pair.
The mechanics of how this works are difficult to grasp.
In 2013 a group off students t the Zagreb Academy of Fine Art attempted to understand the experiment by trying to enact it spatially through movement. This film records that endeavor.
With thanks to Nicole Hewitt of zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and Nives Sertić, Vanja Babić, Anton Svetić, Vitar Drinković & Dejan Gotić.
Bill Albertini – “Manhattan Monopoles”, 2014, 20 mins
American Post-War residential housing is constructed primarily of wood using a simple and easily assembled system of “framing” using structural timbers and cladding the structural frame with various manufactured sheet products such as plywood, plasterboard and decorative exterior siding panels designed to mimic traditional building materials. This approach to building is surprisingly consistent across the country although styles such as Ranch, Colonial or Cape Cod predominate in different areas.
The free-standing billboard is the ultimate distillation of Post-War American residential architecture, comprised of two distinct components, the support structure and the supported advertising panel or facade. The billboard and the Post-War American house are both mutable and impermanent. The billboard and the facade of the Post-War American house both advertise.
Clive Murphy – site specific installation, 20 mins
Clive Murphy’s work comments on the manner in which the living space is a representation of a created personal philosophy, exploring the relationship between the radical and the domestic. The assertions of artists eventually percolate down to consumable objects that inhabit the homes of those who can afford them. Murphy challenges this idea while simultaneously making objects that people will have in their homes, commenting on how in the end capitalism absorbs all challenges.
Murphy will create a site-specific installation in the gallery from objects and materials garnered locally to challenge the space and create and an alternate reality within.
Q&A Moderated by Anthony Haughey until 1 pm.
14.00 – 15.00 – Ed Krčma – Utopia Zones: Some Problems in Art Now (via Joseph Beuys), 45 mins
The basic tensions explored in this talk are between claims for art’s autonomy (art as governed by its own laws) and claims for its heteronomous potential (art as subject to external forces). Both claims have a utopian aspect: on the one hand, by maintaining a provisional and contingent autonomy, art keeps open a zone of freedom for meaningful action and experience; on the other, the extent to which art acts within and upon the external world enables it to contribute to the forging of a better future. But both also have a dystopian aspect: by remaining autonomous, art isolates itself from wider world, prefering instead its sequestered zone; and, conversely, by giving itself up to the sway of powerful external forces, art risks its own co-option, compromise and even dissolution. This talk explores these problems in relation to the legacy of the great German artist Joseph Beuys, examining the tensions between a small number of contemporary artworks which relate to his powerful and controversial programme.
15.15 – 16.00
Closing Discussion moderated by Anthony Haughey until 4 pm.
