Symposium

Deportation Class, 2001

Representation through artistic-aesthetic Strategies Or Activists Engage Artists, Artists Engage Activists, Companies Engage Art Spaces, Art Spaces Engage them all.

This all-day symposium is an invitation to artists and activists to present videos and talks in order to ignite a lively discussion on the use of aesthetic strategies inside and outside the sphere of the arts.

Rosanne Altstatt (Director, Edith Russ Site for Media Art) begins by setting the symposium in the context of the exhibition. Antek Walczak from "Bernadette Corporation" (USA) presents a new video on the anti-globalization demonstrations in Geneva. Stephan Dillemuth (artist and author of "The Academy and the Corporate Public", D) asks if artistic research can function as an alternative form of criticism beyond conventional strategies of representation. Marion von Osten (artist, author and lecturer at the Institute for Design and Art Theory, CH) will hold a talk with video material on artists and their roles in the "Creative Industry". Deportation Class and Silke Wagner will discuss the cohesion of activist and artistic actions against deportation.

Symposia, Entrance Fee: 5 euros

 

Timetable:

11.00 Rosanne Altstatt, Introduction

11.30 Marion von Osten "Büro De-Construct" / Talk and video (German), discussion

12.45 Stephan Dillemuth "The Academy and the Corporate Public" / Talk (German), discussion

14.00 Lunch Break

15.00 Bernadette Corporation "Get Rid of Yourself" video screening und commentary by Antek Walczak (English), discussion (Symposium Transcript)

17.00 Panel Discussion "Aesthetic Strategies in Activism, Activism in Art" discussion with Deportation Class and Silke Wagner (German), moderated by Rosanne Altstatt