February 2010
Invited Guest Lecturer
Prokalo Seminar
The University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture
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February 2010
Invited lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture.
Postgraduate Seminar on the Body.
Lunedì 22 giugno 2009, ore 17:00, Observa – Science in Society, Vicenza (Italy)
Identità personale e brain scan tra scienza e società: quale ruolo per le arti visive?
(Personal Identity and Brain Scan between Science and Society: which Role for the Visual Arts?)
Weblink: http://www.observa.it/content.aspx?PAGE_SUPPORT=SEMINARI&LAN=ITA
In the framework of the annual Ecsite Conference (http://www.ecsite-conference.net/en/index.php?n=4), held in Milan 4-6 June 2009, Leonardo Museum, there were a number of sessions on art and and science crossings:
- Artscience: New Paradigm or Oxymoron?
What do science centres stand to gain by treating art not simply as “propaganda for science” but as a parallel form of enquiry? What risks are involved in developing artscience projects? How can artscience centres become a focus for a new kind of creative community?
- Art and Artist in the Science Centre: Why Not?
Appealing, inspiring, captivating, and above all, original. Don’t we all strive for these qualities in our science centre or museum? Then why do so few science centres and children’s museums involve artists in their exhibition development and seem reluctant to merge artworks and educational exhibits?
Intersections
Manchester Metropolitan University, MIRIAD
2 – 4 April 2009
Crossings: Art, Medicine, Visual Culture
The Role of the Curator’s own Body in Art and Medicine Exhibiting Practices (Silvia Casini, Queen’s University)
Lecture and Seminar hold at University of Edinburgh, course on Culture and Criticism II: The Practice of Cultural Studies.
Title of the lecture:
Identities between Art and Science: Medical Imagery and the Visual Arts (Dr. Silvia Casini)
From Post-Identity Discourse to Concepts of Communality and Participation in Contemporary Art
Convenors:
Benjamin Greenman, University of Essex. btgree@essex.ac.uk
Merav Yerushalmy, University of Essex. myerus@essex.ac.uk
The term ‘post-identity’ has been used to describe a general tendency in the 1990s to rethink questions of identity. It designates a shift from an analysis of social processes in which the subject is constituted to a theorisation of identity as an open process of iteration and deconstruction.
In discourses on art the question of identity has been articulated alongside such concepts as intersubjectivity and performativity. Interpretation itself has been conceptualised as a process of identity formation. The intensive debate around such issues in art history and cultural theory has spurred much criticism, especially with regard to its polarisation of the research field. In the past few years, however, there has been a notable fatigue with such concerns and a manifest desire, in both theory and practice, to find new critical approaches not only to the conceptualisation of the subject but also to that of larger social and political structures.
In recent debates there has been a growing emphasis on notions of communality and participation. A desire has been expressed to find renewed ways to speak of plurality – the ‘we’ – beyond the concept of identity. The performance of participation has been discussed as one potential way of producing open ended, fluctuating forms of communality. Similar concerns have also been voiced within the discourses of relational, dialogical, situational and other socially engaged art practices.
The session explores current concerns within both post-identity discourse and practices and theories of communality, pointing to broader questions about their relationship and the nature of a shift between the two.
Speakers:
Ignacio Estella Noriega (Universidad Carlos III)
BEYOND DEMOCRACY: Fluxus and the dilemmas of pluralism, individualism and ‘common front’
Katarzyna Kosmala (Heriot-Watt University)
Resisting identities and their utopias in new Europe
Silvia Casini (Queen’s University of Belfast)
Questioning MRI identities through curatorial practice
Toni Ross (University of New South Wales)
Models of Communality in the Art of Lucy Orta
George Lovett (Artist in Residence, Ayuntamiento de Huesca)
interCambiArquitectura (iCA): Relational Architecture?