ARTMargins Annual Workshop
Do 23 Jun 2016 – Fr 24 Jun 2016

Writing the Margins

With Sven Spieker in cooperation with Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices

Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

June 23, 2016 | 6.30 pm
Evening Lecture | Workshop Introduction


'Awakening to Color': Heritage, Abstraction, and the Forms of Colonial Modernism (Iraq, 1950s)
Haytham Bahoora (University of Colorado Boulder) 

Our Geocultural Categories: Latin American Art, 1933-1945
Niko Vicario (Amherst College) 
 

June 24, 2016 | 10 am 7 pm
Workshop

Our task in this workshop is to inaugurate a series of conversations that will foster collective, critical, and sustained reflection on the state of global and contemporary art and our place within it. More specifically, we want to ask how to write from and about the (geopolitical, social, historical, or theoretical) margins of art. We are interested in questions and methodological tools that allow us to come to terms with the historicity of artistic and art critical production before the totalizing scope of global capitalism.

Participants
Mario Asef, Hannah Baader, Ivana Bago, Haytham Bahoora, Rakhee Balaram, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Karen Benezra, Annalisa Butticci, Octavian Esanu, Ursula Frohne, Anthony Gardner, Angela Harutyunyan, Banu Karaca, Sami Khatib, Clemens Krümmel, Andres Kurg, Francesca Dal Lago, Susanne Leeb, Joanna Sokolowska, Sven Spieker, Niko Vicario, Andrew Weiner 
 

Program 
10 – 10.15 am | Introduction by Sven Spieker

10.15 am | PANEL 1: METHODS AND CATEGORIES
How would you describe the methodological approach you adopt to writing art history, criticism and/or theory? What are the key critical categories that you use in your work? What are the most pressing methodological or critical issues in the above fields, and how do you understand the implications of such debates?

10.15 – 12 am | Part I
Moderator: Angela Harutyunyan
Presentations: Andres Kurg, Sami Khatib, Octavian Esanu, Karen Benezra, Annalisa Butticci
Discussion

12.15  2 pm | Part II
Moderator: Andrew Weiner
Presentations: Ursula Frohne, Anthony Gardner, Hannah Baader, Susanne Leeb, Banu Karaca
Discussion

3 pm | Lunch

3 pm | PANEL 2: DEFINING GLOBAL ART
How would you define the institutional, ideological, and economic conditions for the kind of work that you produce? What do you think are some of the most salient, promising, or problematic characteristics of global art? Can the categories contemporary and global be effectively distinguished or disentangled? If so, how do you understand them in relation to each other?

 4.30 pm | Part I
Moderator: Karen Benezra
Presentations: Rakhee Balaram, Mario Asef, Niko Vicario, Ivana Bago
Discussion

4.45 6 pm | Part II
Moderator: Sven Spieker
Presentations: Clemens Krümmel, Andrew Weiner, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck
Discussion

– 7 pm | READING AND DISCUSSION

“Art, Society/Text: A few remarks on the current relations of the class struggle in the fields of literary production and literary ideologies”[1] 
Moderator: Sami Khatib
 


[1] (Anonymous, signed by the editorial board: Mladen Dolar, Daniel Leski, Jure Mikuž, Rastko Močnik, Slavoj Žižek), Problemi-Razprave XIII no. 3-5 (147-149) (March-May 1975): 1-10. Translated by Vid Simoniti and forthcoming in ARTMargins 5.3 with an introduction by Nikola Dedić

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Hannah Baader welcoming Haytham Bahoora, Niko Vicar, ArtMargins and the audience to the workshop. (photo: Luise Illigen)
Hannah Baader welcoming Haytham Bahoora, Niko Vicar, ArtMargins and the audience to the workshop. (photo: Luise Illigen)
photo: Luise Illigen
photo: Luise Illigen
Haythem Bahoora on “‘Awakening to Color’: Heritage, Abstraction, and the Forms of Colonial Modernism (Iraq, 1950s)”. (photo: Luise Illigen)
Haythem Bahoora on “‘Awakening to Color’: Heritage, Abstraction, and the Forms of Colonial Modernism (Iraq, 1950s)”. (photo: Luise Illigen)
Niko Vicario on “Our Geocultural Categories: Latin American Art, 1933-1945”. (photo: Luise Illigen)
Niko Vicario on “Our Geocultural Categories: Latin American Art, 1933-1945”. (photo: Luise Illigen)
photo: Luise Illigen
photo: Luise Illigen
photo: Luise Illigen
photo: Luise Illigen

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