Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Papers online
The papers of the Encuentro II Migratory Politics are online at Mieke Bal's university website.
Monday, 10 September 2007
Announcement ASCA newsletter
Second Encountro Murcia–Amsterdam on Migratory Aesthetics, September 19-21, 2007. Convenors: Mieke Bal & Miguel-Angel Hernandez-Navarro
This Encuentro, to which everyone is welcome, is the fourth in a series of N.W.O.-sponsored workshops on the combination of a keyword in the arts, “aesthetics,” and another keyword, describing the social makeup of the contemporary world, “migration.” Putting the two words together, a changing group of international scholars explores in an ongoing collaborative effort what can be defined and analyzed beyond the thematic link. The resulting term, “migratory aesthetics” explores the current cultural and artistic moment in view of the merging of cultures.
The project began with two workshops, organized in collaboration with the CentreCath at the University of Leeds, in 2004 and 2005, and continued with a focus on Spain. In this second set of workshops, a video exhibition accompanies the academic discussions – or the other way around. In March 2006, the exhibition 2MOVE opened in Murcia, in the South of Spain, and on September 19th, the exhibition opens in the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, with the support of, among others, the Mondrian Foundation. (www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl)
The Encuentro is titled “Migratory Politics” and continues the examination of migratory aesthetics with special attention to the ”micro-politics” of art: art’s agency to make small interventions in the social world and the politics that inform it; mostly on the barely visible level of person-to-person interaction, but also the ways information streams are organized and cinematic and televisual presentations “image” participants of the plural society of today, for example.
Four of the working sessions take place at the beautiful location of the Lloyd Hotel, Oostelijke Handelskade 34, Amsterdam. The first session, in the morning of Wednesday September 19th, takes place in the old Bakery of the Zuiderzeemuseum. Participants will be collected at the station by a boat that sails over the IJsselmeer to the museum. After the session, lunch is provided and followed by a short introduction to the exhibition by Mieke Bal. This is followed by the official opening of the exhibition.
On Thursday and Friday a public lecture will be given by Miguel-Ángel Hernandez Navarro, co-organizer of the workshop and co-curator of the exhibition, in the Lloyd hotel at 4.00 p.m. on Thursday 20th and by Salah Hassan in the Bungehuis 1.01, also at 4.00 p.m.
Participation
Those who wish to participate in the entire workshop are asked to read the papers ahead of time. A Reader with all the papers will be provided. This is free of charge but engages the taker to participate fully.
This Encuentro, to which everyone is welcome, is the fourth in a series of N.W.O.-sponsored workshops on the combination of a keyword in the arts, “aesthetics,” and another keyword, describing the social makeup of the contemporary world, “migration.” Putting the two words together, a changing group of international scholars explores in an ongoing collaborative effort what can be defined and analyzed beyond the thematic link. The resulting term, “migratory aesthetics” explores the current cultural and artistic moment in view of the merging of cultures.
The project began with two workshops, organized in collaboration with the CentreCath at the University of Leeds, in 2004 and 2005, and continued with a focus on Spain. In this second set of workshops, a video exhibition accompanies the academic discussions – or the other way around. In March 2006, the exhibition 2MOVE opened in Murcia, in the South of Spain, and on September 19th, the exhibition opens in the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, with the support of, among others, the Mondrian Foundation. (www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl)
The Encuentro is titled “Migratory Politics” and continues the examination of migratory aesthetics with special attention to the ”micro-politics” of art: art’s agency to make small interventions in the social world and the politics that inform it; mostly on the barely visible level of person-to-person interaction, but also the ways information streams are organized and cinematic and televisual presentations “image” participants of the plural society of today, for example.
Four of the working sessions take place at the beautiful location of the Lloyd Hotel, Oostelijke Handelskade 34, Amsterdam. The first session, in the morning of Wednesday September 19th, takes place in the old Bakery of the Zuiderzeemuseum. Participants will be collected at the station by a boat that sails over the IJsselmeer to the museum. After the session, lunch is provided and followed by a short introduction to the exhibition by Mieke Bal. This is followed by the official opening of the exhibition.
On Thursday and Friday a public lecture will be given by Miguel-Ángel Hernandez Navarro, co-organizer of the workshop and co-curator of the exhibition, in the Lloyd hotel at 4.00 p.m. on Thursday 20th and by Salah Hassan in the Bungehuis 1.01, also at 4.00 p.m.
Participation
Those who wish to participate in the entire workshop are asked to read the papers ahead of time. A Reader with all the papers will be provided. This is free of charge but engages the taker to participate fully.
Schedule Encuentro II Migratory Politics
Wednesday September 19th Enkhuizen
9.05 Departure Amsterdam central station
10.08 Arrival Enkhuizen station
10.15 Boat ride and coffee at Zuiderzeemuseum (Bakery)
11.15 Opening Encuentro
11.30 - 13.30 First session of Encuentro “Politics of the Migratory”
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 Walk to the exhibition area
15.00 - 15.30 Introduction to the exhibition
Exhibition opening
15.30 Reception in the Atrium of the Zuiderzee Museum
16.00 Word of welcome by Erik Schilp, director of the Zuiderzee Museum
16.15 Narration by Rodaan Al Galidi, poet and writer music by Jan Pieter van der Giessen
16.30 Viewing of 2MOVE migration + video
17.00 Reception
19.00 End of the programme
Thursday September 20th Amsterdam
Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
9.30 - 12.30 Second session “Technologies of Migratory Culture”
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch at Lloyd Hotel
13.30 - 16.00 Third session “Migratory Temporalities”
16.15 Plenary lecture Miguel Ángel Hernández-Navarro
19.00 Dinner at restaurant Plancius
Friday September 21st Amsterdam
Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
9.30 – 12.30 Fourth session “Art in Interculturality”
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch at Lloyd Hotel
13.30 - 16.00 Fifth session “Doing It: Performance and Performativity”
17.00 Plenary lecture Salah Hassan, Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, room 1.01
19.00 Dinner at the home of Mieke Bal and Ernst van Alphen
Wednesday September 19th
11.30 – 13.00 First session “Politics of the Migratory”This first session is devoted to the politics – often called micro-politics or even nano-politics – of culture itself: the small gestures, facial expressions, imaginations and inventions that can do one of two things. Either it can stifle, oppress, separate people by interpellating them into separate categories. Or, it can change a segregated, allegedly “multi-cultural” society into a truly intercultural one. Papers explore strategies and raise questions concerning the political efficacy of art.
Pedro A. Cruz Sánchez “Ob-scenes. The Political Re-definition of Art”
Begüm Özden Firat “The Seventh Man: Migration, Politics and Aesthetics”
Sudeep Dasgupta ”Relational Thinking: Subjective Displacements and the Politics of Social Space”
Mireille Rosello “Ismaël Ferroukhi’s Le Grand Voyage: Successful Rudimentary Transactions and the Failure of Globalized Languages”
Thursday September 20th
9.30 – 11.45 Second session “Technologies of Migratory Culture”Several contributors have noticed the use if (citations of) older technologies as part of the aesthetics of the migratory. These usages and references contain a vindication of the ideology of development and progress, and promise new (rather than old!) forms of empowerment through a kind of technological hospitality.
Miguel Á. Hernández Navarro “2nd Hand Technologies: Migratory Time, Politics of Resistance”
Sonja Neef “Starhouse Enterprise: On Interstellar Hospitality”
Deborah Cherry ”Sweet Memories”
Isabel Hoving “Circumventing Openness: Creating New Senses of Dutchness”
13.30 – 16.00 Third session “Migratory Temporalities”Time is experienced differently according to where one is in the world. Hence, in migratory culture, temporal experiences are inevitably heterogeneous, conflicting, and productive of new forms of co-existence. The study of such subtle phenomena allows insight into time’s function in and through history.
Mieke Bal “Heterochrony in the Act: The Migratory Politics of Time”
Patricia Pisters “The Mosaic Film: An Affair of Everyone? Migratory Aesthetics and Becoming-Minoritarian in Transnational Media Culture”
Astrid van Weyenberg “Rewriting the Ancient Ends: From the House of Atreus to the Home of South Africa”
Salah Hassan
Friday September 21st
9.30 – 12.30 Fourth session “Art in Interculturality”The arts are a domain of experimentation and heightened sensitivity. Traditionally, art is considered politically indifferent, a position of “disinterested” distance from the turmoil of the political world. Much contemporary art belies this distancing. The discussions of this session focus on practices of art that are strongly and explicitly political, intervening in the ills of cultural defensiveness in the face of migration.
Noa Roei “Moulding Resistance: Aesthetics and Politics in the Struggle of Bil’in Against the Wall”
Jesús Carrillo “On this side of Bollywood: the politics of cinema in the global arena”
Maaike Bleeker “Limitied Visibility”
Joaquín Barriendos Rodríguez “Global Art and Politics of Mobility”
13.30 – 16.00 Fifth session “Doing It: Performance and Performativity”Cultural practices of a different kind are those that seek to influence culture without explicitly addressing politics. A catalogue of such strategies is not the outcome of the papers. Rather, the close look at some strategies stimulates creative thinking about ways of acting in the world; indeed, of making our performances effective, hence, performative.
Paulina Aroch Fugellie “The Place of metaphor in a Metonymic World: Of Homi Bhabha’s De-realizing Politics and Other Academic Events”
Cornelia Gräbner “Immigrants and Castaways: Smuggling Discourses in Manuel Rivas’ La mano del emigrante”
Niamh Ann Kelly “Transgressing Time and the Familiar Anonymous: Performance in the Work of Alanna O’Kelly and Phil Collins”
Jill Bennett “Migratory Aesthetics: Contemporaneity in Art and Politics After Identity”
Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen
Grotere kaart weergeven
Lloyd hotel, Amsterdam
Grotere kaart weergeven
Bungehuis, UvA, Amsterdam
Grotere kaart weergeven
9.05 Departure Amsterdam central station
10.08 Arrival Enkhuizen station
10.15 Boat ride and coffee at Zuiderzeemuseum (Bakery)
11.15 Opening Encuentro
11.30 - 13.30 First session of Encuentro “Politics of the Migratory”
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 Walk to the exhibition area
15.00 - 15.30 Introduction to the exhibition
Exhibition opening
15.30 Reception in the Atrium of the Zuiderzee Museum
16.00 Word of welcome by Erik Schilp, director of the Zuiderzee Museum
16.15 Narration by Rodaan Al Galidi, poet and writer music by Jan Pieter van der Giessen
16.30 Viewing of 2MOVE migration + video
17.00 Reception
19.00 End of the programme
Thursday September 20th Amsterdam
Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
9.30 - 12.30 Second session “Technologies of Migratory Culture”
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch at Lloyd Hotel
13.30 - 16.00 Third session “Migratory Temporalities”
16.15 Plenary lecture Miguel Ángel Hernández-Navarro
19.00 Dinner at restaurant Plancius
Friday September 21st Amsterdam
Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
9.30 – 12.30 Fourth session “Art in Interculturality”
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch at Lloyd Hotel
13.30 - 16.00 Fifth session “Doing It: Performance and Performativity”
17.00 Plenary lecture Salah Hassan, Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, room 1.01
19.00 Dinner at the home of Mieke Bal and Ernst van Alphen
Wednesday September 19th
11.30 – 13.00 First session “Politics of the Migratory”This first session is devoted to the politics – often called micro-politics or even nano-politics – of culture itself: the small gestures, facial expressions, imaginations and inventions that can do one of two things. Either it can stifle, oppress, separate people by interpellating them into separate categories. Or, it can change a segregated, allegedly “multi-cultural” society into a truly intercultural one. Papers explore strategies and raise questions concerning the political efficacy of art.
Thursday September 20th
9.30 – 11.45 Second session “Technologies of Migratory Culture”Several contributors have noticed the use if (citations of) older technologies as part of the aesthetics of the migratory. These usages and references contain a vindication of the ideology of development and progress, and promise new (rather than old!) forms of empowerment through a kind of technological hospitality.
13.30 – 16.00 Third session “Migratory Temporalities”Time is experienced differently according to where one is in the world. Hence, in migratory culture, temporal experiences are inevitably heterogeneous, conflicting, and productive of new forms of co-existence. The study of such subtle phenomena allows insight into time’s function in and through history.
Friday September 21st
9.30 – 12.30 Fourth session “Art in Interculturality”The arts are a domain of experimentation and heightened sensitivity. Traditionally, art is considered politically indifferent, a position of “disinterested” distance from the turmoil of the political world. Much contemporary art belies this distancing. The discussions of this session focus on practices of art that are strongly and explicitly political, intervening in the ills of cultural defensiveness in the face of migration.
13.30 – 16.00 Fifth session “Doing It: Performance and Performativity”Cultural practices of a different kind are those that seek to influence culture without explicitly addressing politics. A catalogue of such strategies is not the outcome of the papers. Rather, the close look at some strategies stimulates creative thinking about ways of acting in the world; indeed, of making our performances effective, hence, performative.
Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen
Grotere kaart weergeven
Lloyd hotel, Amsterdam
Grotere kaart weergeven
Bungehuis, UvA, Amsterdam
Grotere kaart weergeven
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