THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION
OF AESTHETICS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE CULTURAL FIELD
OSLO, APRIL 21 – 22, 2006
Initiators:
Tone Hansen, Trude Iversen and Stian Grøgaard
Host: Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, N-0167
Oslo (Phone: 47 22 85 34 10)
Supporting institutions: The Freedom of Expression Foundation,KHIO, Arts Council Norway.
Registration by e-mail: oddvar.rosten [at] khio.no
Conference fee: 300 NOK (Students: 150 NOK). (Lunch included both days)
CHARLOTTE BYDLER
CRAIG BUCKLEY
STIAN GRØGAARD
TONE HANSEN
TRUDE IVERSEN
ADRIANA KUIPER
MARIA LIND
GERALD RAUNIG
CAREY YOUNG
16 BEAVER GROUP
(RENE GABRI AYREEN ANASTAS)
The conference takes its point of departure from the current discussions on the structural changes in the cultural field. In the last decade the implementation of new models and methods for organisation seem to have had a polarising effect. The notion of the art institution as a unity of artists, curators, art critics, theoreticians, historians and their respective museums, galleries and educational institutions, is no longer adequate. The conference aims to make a diagnosis of the new forms of administration and their consequences, and analyze these from various angles. Currently, pragmatic, short- or long-term collaborations and identifications take place, defying old differences. This requires a change in the conceptual framework and the hermeneutic horizons ruled by prejudices and preconceptions.
Are we witnessing an organizational tendency that tries to avoid an increasing focus on the advantages of large-scale operation and co-operations? Does one seek models of adaptation? Is the forming of new alliances an expression of a pre-modern de-differentiation that undermines arts possibility to function as a critical corrective? Or is it rather a question of softening an inflexible system, a critique of rigid definitions that were concealing unfortunate structures? How does the implosion of neo-liberalism in society affect the production of art and artistic identity? We question whether these issues can be compared with problematics within research and other sectors that have a tradition for being non-profitable.
The seminar aims to emphasize and shed light on these topics, by discussing different aspects of various organizational structures, both the cooperative and the so called self-institutionalized. In addition, artists are invited to present suggestions of ways of dealing with and commenting upon this development.
Initiators: Tone Hansen, Trude Iversen and Stian Grøgaard
Host: Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, N-0167
Oslo (Phone: 47 22 85 34 10)
Supporting institutions: The Freedom of Expression Foundation,KHIO, Arts Council Norway.
Registration by e-mailing; oddvar.rosten@khio.no before April 11, 2006.
Conference fee: 300 NOK (Students: 150 NOK).Lunch both days are included.
For more info, please contact:
Trude Iversen: iversen@ikik.org. ( 47 97192788) Tone Hansen: to.hansen@c2i.net. ( 47 91769664)
FRIDAY APRIL 21.
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome and introduction by Trude Iversen
11.00 Carey Young
12.00 Maria Lind
13.00 Gerald Raunig
14.00 Lunch
14.40 Trude Iversen
15.30 Stian Grøgaard
19.00 Exhibition opening at UKS:
Several Ways Out. Curator Craig Buckley
SATURDAY APRIL 22.
10.00 Coffe
10.30 Adrian Kuiper
11.30 16Beaver Group
12.30 Tone Hansen
13.30 Lunch
14.00 Charlotte Bydler
15.00 Panel discussion / summing up.
Craig Buckley and others.
Moderated by Tone Hansen
