CONCEPTS ON THE MOVE (Final Symposium)
SEPTEMBER 28, 2001, 10 AM-6 PM
GOETHE INSTITUT
PARTICIPANTS: Daniel Birnbaum (philosopher, dir. Staedelschuele/Portikus, Frankfurt), Thierry De Duve (philosopher/curator, Brussels), Anne-Marie Duguet (philosopher, dir. Centre Reserches d’Esthetitique et des Arts Audiovisuelles, Sorbonne, Paris), Bartomeu Mari (philosopher, dir. Witte de With, Rotterdam), Michael Newman (philosopher, professor of Philosophy of Art, St. Martin’s College, London). Coordinators Project: Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slager.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS: Antwerp (HIFA), Karlsruhe (ZKM), Ljubljana (SKUC), London (Slade), Maastricht (Jan van Eyck Academy), New York (Columbia University), Oslo (Statens Akademi), Paris (ENSBA), Tokyo (IAA-Conference) and Venice (Biennale).
PROJECT: In the current theoretical reflection on the artistic process of communication, an obsolete apparatus of concepts is involved, one no longer geared towards how visual art functions today. In “What is Philosophy” Deleuze and Guattari maintain that it is philosophy’s task “to create concepts for problems that necessarily change”. In order to shift towards the development of such a new apparatus of concepts, the project Concepts on the Move intends to list and to discuss the topical problems and conditions of the artistic process, and to investigate issues which could lead to the beginning of another or renewed aesthetic apparatus for dealing with the theory and practice of visual art.
PUBLICATION: Concepts on the Move, L&B (Lier en Boog, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory), issue 17. Editors: Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slager (Fall 2001).
INFORMATION (project): www.lierboog.dds.nl
RESERVATION: before September 25, fax: 020-6384631 or e-mail: cultuurprogr@goethe.nl
Price: DFl. 20.-/DFL.12.50 (reduction)
SUPPORT: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, De Brakke Grond (Vlaams Cultuurhuis), The British Council, Instituto Cervantes, Goethe Institut, and Maison Descartes and N.W.O.
Concepts on the Move is a project of the Global Vernunft Foundation.
