Prologue Symposium (May 2019)

What does it mean to launch a Biennial that breaks with the usual ways of addressing space, time and theme? A prologue symposium held on 27th of May 2019 at Myntgata 2 and the former Museum of Contemporary Art Norway.
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Date27 May 2019
Time13:0018:30
VenueMyntgata 2, 0151 Oslo

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What does it mean to launch a Biennial that breaks with the usual ways of addressing space, time and theme?

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  • For the whole programme leaflet click here.

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

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