Prologue Symposium (May 2019)
Information
What does it mean to launch a Biennial that breaks with the usual ways of addressing space, time and theme?
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Introduction to osloBIENNIALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 and presentation of the symposium:
- Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk (osloBIENNIALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 curators)
- Juan Canela (osloBIENNIALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 Research and Symposium Associate)
Keynote guest speakers:
- Dora García (artist and art teacher)
- Marius Grønning (architect and PhD in urbanism)
- Mikaela Assolent (art educator and PhD researcher in the Feminism, Sexual Politics, and Visual Culture CDT at Loughborough University
- Shwetal A. Patel (researcher and advisor - Institutional Relations osloBIENNIALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024)
Discussant guest speakers:
- Binna Choi (director CASCO Art Institute Utrecht)
- Claire Doherty (director and producer)
- Dmitry Vilensky (artist and educator, founding member of Chto Delat collective , St. Petersburg)
- Farid Rakun (member of ruangrupa artist collective selected to curate documenta 15)
- Jesús Fuenmayor (Adjunct Professor at the School of Art + Art History, University of Florida and curator XIV Cuenca Biennial Ecuador)
- Lara García Díaz (artist, activist and PhD researcher at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts – ARIA)
- Marianne Heier (artist)
- Paul O’Neill (artistic director, PUBLICS, Helsinki)
- Ruben Steinum (artist and chairman of UKS - Young Artists Society, Oslo)
- Tereza Stejskalová and Vít Havránek (curators of the first edition of Matter of Art, Biennale Prague, 2020 organized by tranzit.cz)
- Ulrike Neergaard (director of KØS Denmark)
SCHEDULE
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Registration
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Introduction to the biennial by curators
Eva González-Sancho Bodero and
Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk
Upholding variability
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Presentation of the symposium
by Juan Canela
2:45 - 3:15 pm
Keynote contribution
by Marius Grønning
Art as teknè and the city as material — approaches to work and production in urban localities
3:15 - 3:45 pm
Keynote contribution
by Mikaela Assolent
Queer distraction. forgetful, distracted and passive pedagogies in art
3:45 - 4:00 pm break
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Keynote contribution
by Shwetal A. Patel
Institutional ecologies in an age of globalization & organizational hybridity
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Keynote contribution
by Dora García
Dynamiting the notion of the context-free,
punctually-operating individual artist: working with the collective, the durational, and the site specific
5:00 – 5:15 pm break
5:15 – 6:30 pm
Open discussion with all the discussant guest speakers
6:30 pm – onwards
dinner