Conference Program

Questioning the Non-Human Other

Political Potentials of Living Beings in Art

International Conference at the University of Graz (October 17-19, 2019)

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Universitätsplatz 3, 2nd floor, HS 01.22
2:30 – 3:00pm	Conference Registration
3:00 – 3:15pm	Introduction Sabine Flach & Suzanne Anker
3:15 – 3:30pm	Welcoming speech Rectorate of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz
3:30 - 3:45pm	Welcoming speech Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Michael Walter
4:00 – 6:00pm	Panel I: Animals and the Ethics of Art Moderator: Kris Holland Gabriela Kompatscher Literary Animal Studies as an Ethical Catalyst Jessica Ullrich Animal Agency as Artistic Authorship Gary Sherman Heads and/or Tails
7:00 – 8:00pm	Artist Talk Sabine Flach in conversation with Suzanne Anker at Galerie Schnitzler & Lindsberger (Rechbauerstraße 21, Graz)
8:00 – 9:00pm	Reception Wine and Cheese

Universitätsplatz 3, 1st floor, HS 01.15
09:30 – 11:30am	Panel II: Shifting to Non-Human Aesthetics Moderator: Klaus Rieser Nassim W. Balestrini Ursus Sapiens and Homo Polaris? Cross-Species Representation in Climate Change Theater Kristopher Holland Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing/Overcoming Nature as Object with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hyper-Objects, and Art Sabine Flach Ashamed at/of being ashamed. L’animal que donc je sui - Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida (more to follow)
11:30am – 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00 – 3:00pm	Panel III: The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination Moderator: Susanne Rieser Chonja Lee Revolutionary Flowers. Sex and Politics in early modern Dance Teresa Castro Film and that “butterfly wing-dust of wonder” Sabine Nessel How to Live Together: Posthuman Intimacy and Socialization
3:00 – 3:30pm	Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30pm	Panel IV: ‘Theatrum Botanicum’: The Human-Plant Exchanges Moderator: Sabine Flach Hanne Loreck Critical Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like Jonathan Cane The Politics of Palm Trees in South African Contemporary Art Anne-Grit Becker Oiticica’s Open Condition Karoline Walter Tue Greenfort – Questioning Dichotomies
6:00 – 7:00pm	Screening: Frank Gillette - Introduction by D.J. Hellerman, Curator Everson Museum at Künstlerhaus Graz (Burgring 2, Graz)

Universitätsplatz 3, 2nd floor, HS 01.22
09:30 – 11:30am	Panel V: Quasi Objects Moderator: Anne-Grit Becker Mathias Kessler Nowhere to Be Found Hannes Rickli Quasi-Objects: Nature as Infrastructure and Medium of Its Own Observation Natasha Christopher Soil Matters Margit Stadlober Tiny Plants (?) with big Effect in the Danube Style
11:30am – 12:30pm	Lunch
12:30 – 2:30pm	Panel VI: Counter-paths: Artistic Flurries for Non-Human Art Moderator: Sabine Flach Valerie Varga Remembering the future. Mariko Mori´s art in the context of metamodernism Stefanie Schiefermair Appropriation and Alienation of Landscapes. Positions of Contemporary Art in Postcolonial Context Janine Wagner On the Vivification of a Digital Character Elisabeth Rainer Eco-Logic: Wheatfield - A Confrontation Anja Lindbichler Relation between Ecology and Art Beata Fenyvesi Scientific Nature? Matter and Visuality in the works of Suzanne Anker
2:30 – 2:45pm	Coffee break
2:45 – 4:45pm	Panel VII: Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutations Moderator: Gary Sherman Thomas Schmickl Repairing broken ecosystems with robotic surrogates Anita Haxhija Tomás Saraceno’s Webs for Better Futures Guenther Seyfried Return to Dilmun DJ Hellermann The Angel and The Machine
4:45 – 5:15pm	Closing Remarks Sabine Flach & Suzanne Anker

Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Sabine Flach

Institut für Kunstgeschichte

sabine.flach(at)uni-graz.at

Ansprechperson:

Mag.

Ursula Winkler
Telefon:+43 (0)316 380 - 2401
E-Mail:u.winkler(at)uni-graz.at

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