Not Now! Now! – the very exciting temporal politics of arts-based research

Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2013 - 19:00 Uhr

Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Ort | Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Aktzeichensaal (Konferenz), Aula (Ausstellung)

Lectures by: Sharon Hayes (New York), Mathias Danbolt (Kopenhagen), Nana Adusei-Poku (Berlin), Jamika Ajalon (London, Suzana Milevska (Skopje / Wien)
Inputs by: Yva Jung (London), Ana Hoffner (Vienna), Dana Samuel (Montréal), Rana Öztürk (Dublin), Yasmine Eid Sabbagh (Vienna), Mara Lee Gerden (Gothenburg), Andrea Ray (Malmö), Ingrid Cogne (Vienna)
Exhibition with works by: Sharon Hayes, Ana Hoffner, Anna T., Henriette Meise, Xiaoyan Men, Tanya Ostojic

The conference NOT NOW! NOW! focuses on chronopolitics. While the field of temporality studies is relatively wide, the conference will lay special emphasis on the question of the temporal politics in the field of art. The conference departs from the premise that artistic practices are considered a productive means to challenge orderly and rigid temporal concepts and their effects on bodies and the organising of the social: How exactly and by which formats and methods can artistic practices intervene into normative, "straight," linear and normalizing concepts of time? A specific selection of exemplary art works as well as recent debates in postcolonial and queer studies will be the starting points for our common discussions.

Contemporary queer and postcolonial studies have investigated the way in which biographies and their temporal courses are responsible for the appraising of some biographies over others, for the demand for able-bodiedness and the degree to which our notions of the normal and the respectable are constructed based on a logic of reproductive temporality. They seek to produce alternatives to a developmental concept of time, alternatives which counter the temporal cycles of nation states and capitalist markets. This coalesces with the desire to displace colonial concepts of noncoevalness by which some groups are characterized as progressive, others as regressive.

How can these temporal frameworks of normalcy on the one hand and cultural and
bodily otherness on the other hand be profoundly reworked? Is it through installating a synchronous time (Homi Bhabha), through the unruly figure of anachronism (Mathias Danbolt), or the digging for and re-enactment of past potential futures, futures that, Kodwo Eshun says, are unrealized? Is it through "temporal drag", which bridges times by means of desire, values past feminist / denormalizing accomplishments and allows for "rage and longing, scorn and affection, for seemingly obsolete objects and subject-positions"? (Elizabeth Freeman) Or is it "re-speaking" in its double meaning of reenactment and resisting, a concept that Sharon Hayes claims for her own artistic practice?
The conference aims at participating in the debate around arts-based research by enriching the field through the investigation of chronopolitical interventions and the analysis of particular artistic practices and methods, which already have been developed.

Thursday, October 17

3 pm - 3.30 pm
Intro: Renate Lorenz

3.30pm - 4.30pm
Sharon Hayes: Strategies of anachronism, citation and respeaking
Chair: Mathias Danbolt, Ana Hoffner

4.30pm - 5pm break, refreshments

5pm - 6pm
Nana Adusei-Poku: "[…] To confront every second as if it has always been in existence, though its materiality is fleeting"
Chair: Christian Kravagna, Giulia Cilla

6pm - 7pm "exhibition-tour", Aula

7pm picnic

Friday, October 18

1pm - 2pm
Jamika Ajalon: "outside your timezone/ a stranger in a strange land/ NOWHERE is my home"
Chair: Dorit Margreiter, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

2pm - 3pm Inputs I
Yva Jung (London), Ana Hoffner (Vienna), Dana Samuel (Montréal), Rana .ztu?rk (Dublin)
Chair: Elske Rosenfeld

3pm - 3.30pm break, refreshments

3.30pm - 4.30pm
Suzana Milevska: VEILS/FOLDS/ARCHIVES: Production of face in space-time
Chair: Anette Baldauf, Till Gathmann

4.30pm - 5.30pm Inputs II
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (Vienna), Mara Lee Gerden (Gothenburg), Andrea Ray (Malmö), Ingrid Cogne (Vienna)
Chair: Moira Hille

5.30pm - 6pm break, refreshments

6pm - 7pm
Mathias Danbolt: Dormancy: Art, Timing, and the Politics of Suspension
Chair: Renate Lorenz, Mareike Bernien

7pm Drinks

Termin

Uhu Diskurs
Konferenz, Vortrag, Chronopolitik
Donnerstag, 17.10.2013 19:00
bis Freitag, 18.10.2013
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Wien
- Aktzeichensaal & Aula
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