January 14 – 16, 2016

HCTS, 69115 Heidelberg, Vossstr. 2, Gb. 4400, Room 212

Conference

Border Crossings: Migration Arts and Arts of Migration

 

Organization: Cathrine Bublatzky, Christiane Brosius

This workshop encourages a critical engagement with multiple forms of migration and the artistic practices these movements create, or even enforce. While the meaning of the phrase ‘migration’ changes in relation to the historical, geographical and social circumstances, various other phrases need to be taken into account in order to verify particular movements and existential experiences of those people who are affected by times of crises and insecurity. Lines between exodus, expulsion, exile, or labor migration need to be carefully drawn when research approaches any forms of artistic responses to human movement activities. Artists and their aesthetic ways to engage with times of crisis such as war, natural catastrophes, social or economic upheaval, and political instabilities play thereby various roles as their visual practices might help to express, document, or expose individual and collective experiences of human tragedy, resettlement, and trauma. Because the relation of art practices and contexts matter for investigating ‘migration’, this workshop wishes to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about specific ‘transitory’ spaces (e.g. in art institutions, studios or even border zones) and its agents.

 

In relation to the subject-related topic of social practices of border crossing and the role of artists and art within the larger context of migration studies, this workshop will critically address the methodological dimension in those studies. Applied to individual research topics, we want to reflect on the analytical usage and qualities of concepts such as ‘transculturality’, ‘transnationality’, ‘translocality’, ‘transaesthetics’ or ‘critical transregionality’ as they seem to facilitate further analytical fine-tuning. Even though each of them takes a different hermeneutic and methodological starting point with respect to the framing of ‘culture', ‘locality' or ‘aesthetics’, they align in considering ‘migration’ and ‘border crossing’ as significant emblem in the field of art and cultural studies.

PROGRAMME

 

Day 1 - Thursday: January 14, 2016

4 pm – 5 pm Prinzhornsammlung Dubuffets Liste (for early arriving guests, meeting at 3:45 at the main entrance, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg)

 

6:00 pm ‘Coming together’ Dinner at Pizzeria Osteria Zafferano Poststraße 34 69115 Heidelberg

 

Day 2 - Friday: January 15, 2016

09:00 – 9:30 am Welcome by Christiane Brosius and Cathrine Bublatzky

 

09:30 – 10:45 am Monica Juneja A way to stay – migration and the dilemma of language.

 

10:45 – 11:15 am Coffee & Tea

 

11:15 – 11:55 am Birgit Mersmann (Köln University)

Migratory Aesthetics in Visual Translation. Practices of Displacement in Documentary Photography pf Migration

 

11:55 - 12:35 pm Franziska Koch (Heidelberg University)

Exploring the theoretical potential of “transnationality” and “translocality” in a case study on Noh Suntag’s photographic mediation of Korean border issues

 

12:35 – 1:45 pm Lunch (HCTS)

 

1:45 – 2:25 Kerstin Meincke (Duisburg-Essen University)

Weltkunstgeschichte, postkolonial

 

2:25 – 3:05 Danijel Cubelic (Heidelberg University)

Contested Cartographies: Sharjah Biennial and the Politics of Artistic Knowledge Production in the UAE

 

3:05 – 3:30 pm Coffee & Tea

 

3:30 – 5:30 pm Internal meeting

 

6:00 – 8:00 pm Heidelberger Kunstverein ‘Es war einmal ein Land…’ Hauptstraße 97, 69117 Heidelberg

 

8:00 pm Dinner at Café und Weinstube Burkardt, Untere Strasse 27, 69117 Heidelberg

 

Day 3 Saturday: January 16, 2016

09:30 am Travel to Karlsruhe, meeting at Heidelberg main train station

 

11:00 am - DIE GLOBALE, ZKM

(1 hr guided tour; it will be in German with a focus on Global Games and Armin Linke; afterwards there will be the possibility of having lunch in the museum restaurant as well as an extended visit to the entire exhibition DIE GLOBALE)