IMAGES OF VIOLENCE / VIOLENCE OF IMAGES


Thursday, the 14th of October 2004

10.00 – 10:30
Opening at Goethe Institute

10:30 – 13.00
Identity and Visual Culture – session I
Moderator: Werner Meyer, director, Kunsthalle Göppingen 
Keynote speaker: René Block, curator, director, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel – Love it or leave it – or How to Bring Back the Balkans to the Balkans

Stevan Vukovic, Serbia & Montenegro, curator, program director SKC, Belgrade –On Art, Violence and the State of Exception (On Ethics of Contemporary Art in Globalized World)
Liviana Dan, Romania, curator, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu – Violence Report
Dan Dediu, Romania, composer, Head of the Composition Departement, National University of Music, Bucharest – Allegro barbaro

11:45 – 12:00
Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00
Marta Smolinska-Byczuk, Polonia, Departement for History of Art and Culture, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, editor, ARTeon Magazine – Is It Contemporary Polish Art Polish ?
Elena Panayotova, Bulgaria, artist and cultural manager – Re-interpretation of Symbols

13:00 – 15:00
Lunch break

Identity and visual culture – session II

15:00 – 16:00
Anne Peschken & Marek Pisarsky (Urban Art), Germany, visual artists – Dialog loci
Matei Bejenaru, Romania, visual artist, director of the “Periferic” Biennial, professor, University of Arts, Iasi – “Periferic” Project – Between Reality and Utopia

16:00 – 16:15
Coffee break

16:15 – 17:30
Irina Grabovan, Moldova, curator, Aorta Gallery, Chişinău – Contemporary Art in the Traditional Society. Aorta Art Centre Case Study
Alina Şerban, Romania, curator, art critic, editor Arhitext Magazine – The ‘Sacrifice’ of the Critical Discourse. The Curatorial Practices in Romania.
Florin Dumitru, Romania, actor – Non-verbal Lecture

Specialists invited to participate:
Adrian Guţă, Romania – art critic, professor, University of Arts, Bucharest
Vladimir Bulat, Romania/Moldova – curator, art critic and director of Art-Hoc Magazine
Ron Sluik, Netherlands/Moldova – visual artist, curator, Aorta Gallery, Chişinău
Ana-Marija Koljanin, Croatia – curator, Kazamat Gallery, Osjiek

18:00
Visual Codes and Identities. The Violence of the Image/ The Image of Violence – The Young Artists’ Biennial – exhibition opening at Cărtureşti Gallery/Bookshop, 13 Arthur Verona Street

22:00
After Hours in Club Twice

Friday, the 15th of October 2004

10:00 – 11:30
«The Visual Turn» and the Democratization of Culture
Moderator: Ami Barak, curator, president of the International Association of Curators, Department of Cultural Projects, City Council of Paris

Werner Meyer, Germany, director, Kunsthalle Göppingen – To Understand or Not to Understand – That Is the Question!
Janka Vukmir, Croatia, curator, director, Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb –Society: Frigid or Sexy?
Jiri Ptacek, Czech Republic, art theoretician, curator, editor-in-chief of Umelec International Magazine – Who Is the Looser?

11:30 – 11:45
Coffee break

11:45 – 13:00
Ivan Mecl, Czech Republic, director, Umelec International Magazine – Invalid Truths. A Bitter End for the Idealists. Under the Great Imperialism.
Alexandra Crăciun, Romania, Phd, University of Bucharest – e-dentity
Florin Iaru, Romania, poet, writer – God Is Dead and Art Is Not Feeling Well Either
Arjon Dunnewind, Netherlands, curator, artistic director of Impakt Festival Utrecht – Cultural Autopsy – and Vice Versa, videopresentation

13:00 – 15:00
Lunch break

15:00 – 16:30
Practices of Looking. Images, Representations, Ideologies 
Moderator: Victor Misiano, curator, art critic, founder and editor-in-chief, Moscow Art Magazine
Keynote speaker: Steven Gartside, PhD, Centre for the Study of Location, Memory and Visuality, MIRIAD – (Mis)placing the image

Vasile Ernu, Romania, art theoretician, director, IDEA Press House, Cluj – About Images of Idelogies and Ideologies of the Image
Liviu Dinu, Romania, mathematician, University of Bucharest – “The Red Ox”
Irina Cios, Romania, curator, director, International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest – Freedom versus Efficiency in the Urban Visual Context
Luchezar Boyadjiev, Bulgaria, visual artist and curator, ICA Sophia – The Visual Logic of Early Neo-Capitalism

16:30 – 16:45
Coffee break

16:45 – 17:45
Brânduşa Palade, Romania, philosopher, assistant professor SNSPA – On the Language of Totalitarian Political Domination
Bogdan Ghiu, Romania, writer, philosopher, media analyst – The Violence of Dissappearance and the Semiotic Hopelessness

Specialists invited to participate:
Adrian Guţă, Romania – art critic, professor, University of Arts, Bucharest
Vladimir Bulat, Romania/Moldova – curator, art critic and director of Art-Hoc Magazine
Alex Săndulescu, Romania – director of B-24-FUN Magazine
Ana-Marija Koljanin, Croatia – curator, Kazamat Gallery, Osjiek

18:00
Stop The Tempo, dramatic – image performance, director G. Cărbunariu, LUNI Theater at Green Hours

22:00 – 23:15
Cultural Autopsy in Bucharest, videoprogram by Arjon Dunnewind, curator, director of Impakt Festival Utrecht
Toaca Studio/ International Center for Contemporary Art, 5 Mircea Vodă Street

23:30 – 00:00
The innocent image of violence seen by the subjective viewer, videoprogram by Ron Sluik, visual artist, curator
Toaca Studio/ International Center for Contemporary Art, 5 Mircea Vodă Street

Saturday, the 16th of October 2004

Artists’ presentations:

Gallery Tour