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Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
An International Conference
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Middlesex University in collaboration with the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits’ (Sfb), Free University Berlin
13 & 14 March 2008
The Drawing Room
Trent Park Campus
Middlesex University
London N14
Programme
Day 1
| 9.30-10.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 10.30-10.45 |
Introduction: Peter Osborne, CRMEP |
| 10.45-12.30 |
Sensate Thinking: Aesthetics, Art, Ontology
Chair: Luke Skrebowski, CRMEP
Christoph Menke – Sfb/Institute for Philosophy, University of Potsdam
'Not Yet - The Philosophical Significance of Aesthetics'
Eric Alliez – CRMEP ‘Undoing the Image' |
| 12.30-13.45 |
Lunch |
| 13.45-16.00 |
The Dissolution of Artistic Limits: Objects, Events, Ideas
Chair: Armen Avenessian, Sfb
Juliane Rebentisch – Sfb/Institute for Philosophy, University of Potsdam ‘Aesthetic Autonomy and Contemporary Art’
Sebastian Egenhofer – University of Basel
'Aesthetic Materiality in Conceptualism’
Peter Osborne – CRMEP ‘The Fiction of the Contemporary’ |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee |
| 16.30-17.45 |
Keynote lecture 1
Chair: Peter Osborne, CRMEP
Art & Language – artists and writers
'Feeling Good: The Aesthetics of Corporate Culture'
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| 18.00-19.00 |
Drinks reception |
Day 2
| 09.30-10.00 |
Coffee |
| 10.00–11.15 |
Keynote lecture 2
Chair: Peter Osborne, CRMEP
Luis Camnitzer – artist and writer
‘The Two Versions of Santa Anna's Leg and Other Things’
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| 11.15-13.30 |
Aesthetics of Post-Autonomy: Institution, Collaboration, Participation
Chair: Armen Avenessian, Sfb
Susanne Leeb – Sfb
'Human Rights as “Compass” for Art'
Stewart Martin – CRMEP
‘The Subsumption of Art by Capital’
Brian Holmes – writer and critic
‘Rules of the Game: The Artistic Device & the Articulation of Public Speech’
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| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30-16.45 |
Exhibition-Value: Aesthetics of Curation in a Global Artworld
Chair: Luke Skrebowski, CRMEP
Dorethea Von Hantelmann – Sfb
'The Rise of Exhibitions and the Exhibition as Art’
Charles Merewether – curator
'A Work in Progress'
Pamela Lee – Stanford University
‘The Invisible hand of Curation’
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| 16.45–17.15 |
Closing discussion
Chair: Peter Osborne, CRMEP |
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