trans-what?
International Symposium at Supermarkt, Berlin July 28, 2013
Date
July 28, 2013, 12:00 - 21:00
Location: Supermarkt Creative Resource Center
Brunnenstrasse 64, 13355 Berlin
trans-?
More than a dozen researches, theorists and artists will share insights into a range of projects, all connected to aspects of the prefix "trans-" with its range of meanings from "across" and "beyond" to "on the opposite side". The symposium will explore further acts of translation through short papers and alternative forms of presentation such as performance-lectures. Presenters explore new modes of communication and exchange, the spaces in which knowledge is formed, produced and disseminated, challenge forms and paradigms through which artistic research operates, and reflect on the deeper consequences of changing something to something else.
Schedule (partial)
12.15 – 12.45 Keynote by Julia Moritz – What Trans?
13.30 – 15.30 Trans-positions (moderated by Debbie Robinson)
Monika Jaeckel – Turn around, make a round turn
Thomas Baugh – Trans memory and trans-remembering
Rachelle Viader Knowles – Translocating art practice
Christopher Danowski and Laura González – Trance Art and Other Possessions
16.00 – 17.30 Trans-mutations (moderated by Geoff Cox)
Arianne Conty – MediationsEmile Devereaux – Testing Vision
Helen Pritchard – Making Casper
18.00 – 19.30 Trans-missions (moderated by Debbie Robinson)
Michelle Lewis-King – Pulse Project
Charlie Tweed – Rewriting the overcode
Morten Riis – Operative magnetics
20.00 Drinks
Francisco Javier Fernández Gallardo – Talking Dirty (tasting event)
The full schedule is online.
Presenters
Julia Moritz, art historian and curator, headed the "Maybe Education and Public Programs of dOCUMENTA (13)". The department pursued new methods in art education and reassessed the public programs of past documenta exhibitions.
Geoff Cox is an occasional artist, writer, and Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK), is an editor for the DATA Browser book series (published by Autonomedia). His research interests lie in the areas of software studies, network culture and a reappraisal of the concept of the ‘public’
Debbie Robinson's artwork explores biological categorisation, and the use of specimens and models in theories of evolutionary development. These objects straddle boundaries in a curious manner evoking imagined spaces and usage/interpretations beyond their original purpose.
Thomas Baugh's research is concerned with defining and making material a visual equivalence of somatic experiences, in the context of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, using methods of filmic projection within installation art. He is a Ph.D. candidate, Associate Lecturer, Plymouth University.
Professor Arianne Conty, Ph.D. of France focus on theories of subjectivity and the ways ideas participate in identity formation and inform theories of textual and visual representation. She studies the ways that emergence and hybridity impact human identity. She teaches at American University of Sharjah.
Phoenix based performance artist Christopher Danowski, MFA, makes films to project on gallery walls, constructs rituals and creates theatrical events internationally. He is currently working on a practice-based PhD on the subject of desire, sorcery and new media performance at Transart Institute.
Emile Devereaux is a digital media maker and writer, focused on tech developments, economies, and systems of distribution on bodies and environments. Devereaux’s practice-as-research includes tactical media, site-specific interventions, and socially-engaged projects. He is a lecturer at Lancaster University.
Fran Gallardo, Ph.D. candidate, architect, engineer and imaginative technologist is a member of the Environmental Art Activism movement, exploring the interface between Society, Environment and Technology. His research accounts for re-imagining food-soil dynamics and he exhibits internationally.
Laura González, Ph.D., artist, dancer and writer follows Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, supervising students at Glasgow School of Art and Transart Institute. She has written on the seductive qualities of Philippe Stack’s Juicy Salif, authored, edited a collection on madness and performed with Michael Clark.
Berlin artist Monika Jaeckel, MA, performance and theory writer's current project on self-invented notion of ‘memacism’ (concept of motion embedded mind agency), focusing on experiments with the body as essential ‘tool’ or ‘extension’ for the world making (worlding) of mind.
Michelle Lewis-King, Ph.D. candidate, artist and lecturer explores sound in relation to embodiment investigating the convergence between science, art, touch and technology via her creative practice in fine art, audio programming, Chinese Medicine, biomedicine and clinical practice. Michelle shows internationally.
Rachelle Viader Knowles, artist, researcher and educator from Wales, is currently Head of Visual Arts, University of Regina and a Transart Institute MPhil/PhD researcher interested in dialogic and translocal strategies in visual and media art. Her works have been exhibited internationally.
Helen Pritchard, Ph.D. candidate works with Computational Aesthetics, Software Studies, Environmental Practice and New Feminist Materialisms. Central to her work is knowledge practices, participation and the performativity of code, she is currently monitoring animals by remote camera.
Morten Riis, Ph.D.'s works in the media archaeological research tradition and a sound artist with numerous grants and commissions, albums, concerts and sound installations internationally. Current he is searching for the elementary elements of digital and mechanical control.
Charlie Tweed, MFA, is a PhD researcher at Kingston University. His exhibitions include The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 2012, Notes I, II & III, Spike Island, Bristol and Alma Enterprises, London, 2011 and ‘I am Algorithm’, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2013.
LOCATION FOR ALL EVENTS:
Supermarkt Creative Resource Center
Brunnenstrasse 64, 13355 Berlin
www.transart.org/transartfest/trans-what-symposium-program/
For further information please contact Drew Henmi:
[email protected]
Transart Institute
228 Park Ave. S. #34726
New York
www.transart.org
