SYMPOSIUM  25./26. September 2015

Black Mountain – Educational Turn and the Avantgarde

Black Mountain College (1933-1957) developed an unprecedented prominent genealogy of artists, scientists, and intellectuals in the neo-avant-garde of the 20th century. As an educational art institution, it established performative practices of interdisciplinary learning and researching, which included at least two crucial factors: collaboration and experimentation. This unique complicity of an educational turn and the emergence of an avant-garde is of crucial interest in today’s debates on issues of education and pedagogy in art, science, and academia under precarious economic circumstances.

When? FRIDAY, September 25, 6pm-9pm & SATURDAY, September 26, 10am-6:15pm
Where? Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin
How? public event (no registration required) / öffentliche Veranstaltung (keine Anmeldung erforderlich)
Who? Read the speakers’ abstracts here.

For further inquiries contact: Verena Kittel (vekittel@zedat.fu‐berlin.de), Jens Kraushaar (DHC, hiwis@dhc.fu‐berlin.de) or Annette Jael Lehmann (ajlehman@zedat.fu-berlin.de)

Friday
25 / 09

18.00-19.00h
Eugen Blume, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann: Welcome and Exhibition

19.15-20.00h
James Elkins (School of the Art Institute Chicago | Chicago, USA): What is Research?

20.15h
Matt Wright (School of Music and Performing Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University | Canterbury, UK): Black Mountains of Vinyl –The Turntable and Compositional Thinking

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Saturday

10.00-10.30h
Annette Jael Lehmann (Freie Universität Berlin | Berlin, Germany): Black Mountain – Educational Turn and the Avantgarde in Past Tense

10.30-11.15h
Eva Díaz (Pratt Institute | New York, USA): The Black Mountain College Experiment Revisited

11.15-12.00h
Christa Brüstle (Kunstuniversität Graz | Graz, Austria): Black Mountain College and the Aspects of the Musical Avantgarde

12.15-13.00h
Chris Salter (Concordia University | Montreal, Canada): Alien Agency – Techno-Science, Art and the Limits of Knowing

14.30-15.15h
Dieter Lesage (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound | Brussels, Belgium): Art, Research, Experiment – The Academy Revisited

15.15-16.15h
Panel: Collaboration in Art, Education and Research Today
Moderation: Claudia Olk (Freie Universität Berlin)

Eugen Blume (Museum Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin, Germany), Irene Campolmi (Curatorial Department, Louisiana Museum | Humlebæk, Denmark), Ingrid Commandeur (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam | Rotterdam, Neatherlands), Julian Klein (Institut für künstlerische Forschung, Radialsystem V | Berlin, Germany), Gabriele Knapstein (Museum Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin, Germany), Markus Miessen (University of Southern California | Los Angeles, USA), Nina Möntmann (Royal Institute of Art | Stockholm, Sweden), Patrick Müller (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste | Zurich, Switzerland)

16.45-17.30h
Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths, University of London | London, UK): Creative Practices of Knowlegde

17.30-18.15h
Christina Kral (Ykon | Berlin, Germany), Yvonne Reiners (Performing Encounters | Berlin, Germany): Everyone must win – A Recall of Buckminster Fullers’ »World Game«

Moderation: Mariama Diagne, Anna-Lena Werner (Freie Universität Berlin)