Monday, 10 September 2007

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

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