 08/30/05 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Artists, performers, writers, architects, lawyers, scholars, activists, community and political leaders from a range of contexts that have been directly affected and transformed by violence will gather in downtown Manhattan in a public exchange of stories, strategies, ideas and memories. Over three days of roundtable discussions, performances, films, and art installations in all media, Cities, Art and Recovery will consider how people remember and rebuild after tragedy and how the arts have been crucial to such recovery. Roundtables: Design of Recovery Friday, September 9, 2pm Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St. What are the political and aesthetic challenges of rebuilding after disaster? How do architects and planners balance utilitarian, economic and technological issues against those of environment, cultural heritage and local practice? Sultan Barakat, Director, Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York, UK Craig Dykers, architect, Snøhetta, Oslo, Norway Jad Tabet, architect, Tabet Architects and Planners, Paris, France/Lebanon Eyal Weizman, architect, Tel Aviv/London; Moderator: Lebbeus Woods, artist, professor, Cooper Union, New York, USA Afterword: Language of Recovery Saturday, September 10, 10am Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St. What are the demands placed on language and writing by disaster? How does writing after catastrophe work as advocacy, witness, mirror, mourning, elegy or indictment? Biljana Srbljanovic, playwright, Serbia Lyonel Trouillot, writer, Haiti Semezdin Mehmedinovic, writer, Bosnia/USA Brigitte Oleschinski, poet, Germany Moderator: Ammiel Alcalay, writer, translator, USA. Arts of Emergency Saturday, September 10, 3pm Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St. How are artists provoked by the mechanisms of destruction and terror? How does photography, painting and performance intervene to restore face and voice, expose the erasures of history and demand recognition? Gerald McMaster, Deputy Assistant Director, Cultural Resources, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Plains Cree, Canada Dijana Milosevic, Artistic Director, DAH Teatar, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Leo Rubinfien, photographer, New York, USA Camilo Jose Vergara, photographer, Chile/USA Revenge, Reparation, Reconciliation Saturday, September 10, 4:30pm Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St. How can artistic media be used by formerly hostile groups to reconcile opposing points of view, recognize divergent historical narratives and promote trust? What cultural strategies do advocates, jurists and activists employ to effect accountability and foster healing? Elazar Barkan, Director, Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, Salzburg Seminar, Austria and Professor, Claremont Graduate University, USA Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director, Witness, New York, USA Avila Kilmurray, Director, Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK Duma Kumalo, Arts and Culture Officer, Khulumani, Johannesburg, South Africa Moderator: Vasuki Nesiah, Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice, Sri Lanka/USA Remembrance, Repetition, Residue Sunday, September 11, 10am Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St. What is the relationship of memory and forgetting to the recovery of daily life after trauma? How are the arts of memorymuseums, memorials, archivessentinels of the future? Horst Hoheisel, artist, Kassel, Germany Vannak Huy, Researcher, Documentation Center (DC-CAM), Phnom Penh, Cambodia Suada Kapic, Director, FAMA International, Sarajevo, Bosnia Patricia Tappatá de Valdez, Director, Memoria Abierta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Moderator: James Young, Professor, English and Judaic Studies, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Arts of Possibility Sunday, September 11, 3:30pm Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St. Can cultural and symbolic forms help to imagine a future while remembering the past and mourning loss? Can artistic strategies serve as antidotes to revenge, sorrow and despair to restore hope, encourage safety, and return the promise of tomorrow? Robert Kluyver, Executive Director, Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul, Afghanistan Dijana Milosevic, Artistic Director, DAH Teatar, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Maysoon Pachachi, filmmaker, Iraq/UK Clive van den Berg, artist/curator, Johannesburg, South Africa Moderator:Clifford Chanin, President, Legacy Project, New York, USA For details and event registration, visit http://www.lmcc.net/recovery |
