[Nettime-ro] Seminar "The Demon of Comparisons"

[Cosmin Costinas <cosmincostinas2004@yahoo.com>]

Seminar "The Demon of Comparisons" 

with Michele Faguet, Patrick D. Flores, Vit Havranek, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Ahmad bin Mashadi, David Riff
Saturday 4 April 2009, 
11:00 - 18:00 
at Doelenzaal, University of Amsterdam 
(Singel 421-427, 1012 WP Amsterdam)

Curated by Cosmin Costinas in collaboration with Kyongfa Che and Binna Choi

The seminar is conceived of as a space for dialogue among a number of writers, researchers, philosophers and curators who in their practice have been committed to questioning underlying processes of history writing in a shifting canon and a changing geography of artistic practice. Working on narratives and practices that lie on the borders of a (Western) canonic representation of art and its political dimensions, often at the fault line between forms of modernism, avant-garde urgencies and the articulations of the political in the different cultural landscapes they are interested in, the speakers share an interest in the critical tools to be employed in their endeavors. Focusing on spaces with histories as different as Latin America, Eastern Europe and South East Asia, the seminar will explore the ambivalence of comparative approaches, with all their strategic promises and critical traps.


11.00 - 11.10 Welcome by Jelle Bouwhuis 
11.10 - 11.30 Introduction by Cosmin Costinas
11.30 - 12.15 "Pornomiseria and the Commodification of Underdevelopment" by Michele Faguet
12.15 - 13.00 "The Philippine Modern: Conceiving a Collective Category" by Patrick D. Flores

13.00 - 14.00 lunch break

14.00 - 14.45 "Framing Southeast Asian Contemporary Art of the 1970s" by Ahmad Bin Mashadi
14.45 - 15.30 "Elephantology of Culture:  An Approach to Identity Issues in Japan" by Hiroshi Yoshioka
15.30 - 16.15 "From Inclusion to Rhizoma: How Has Historical Consciousness Changed During the Period of Transformation?" by Vit Havranek
16.15 - 17.00 "The Moscow School of Subalternity" by David Riff
17.00 - 18.00 Q&A, discussions



      
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