SEMINAR: CAN ART MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Saturday 15 January 1- 4pm
In relation to the current exhibition by Maj Hasager and Helen de Main, we invite you to a seminar about art and development: Can art make a difference in a globalized world? Why do some artists travel to areas dominated by conflict to create art projects? And what changes can art make in such places? These are some of the questions that will be discussed at the seminar.
Speakers: Lotte Philipsen, post. doc., Aarhus University and author of the book Globalizing Contemporary Art; Morten Goll, artist and founder of Trampolinhuset; Morten Gøbel Poulsen, project coordinator CKU; Carsten Juhl, senior lecturer at The Royal Danish Academy. Moderator: Maria Kjær Themsen. Furthermore, the artists Nynne Haugaard and Nikolaj Kilsmark will launch their new book Wish You Were Here, which deals with questions about art and development in a transnational context.
The seminar will be in English and we will serve gin & tonic. Supported by the British Council.
PROGRAMME:
13:00 -13:15 Welcome and introduction by Maria Kjær Themsen (Moderator)
13:15 -13:45 ʻNew Internationalismʼ by Lotte Philipsen, post. doc., Aarhus University and author of the book Globalizing Contemporary Art (2010)
13:45 -14:15 ʻThe function of art in relation to social urgency: a presentation of Trampolinhusetʼ by Morten Goll, artist and founder of Trampolinhuset
Coffee Break
14:30 -15:00 ʻA presentation of the book Wish You Were Here by Nynne Haugaard and Nikolaj
Kilsmarkʼ by Carsten Juhl, senior lecturer at The Royal Danish Academy
15:00 -15:30 ʻArt and Developmentʼ by Morten Gøbel Poulsen, project coordinator CKU
15:30 -16:00 Discussion
GIN & TONICS and book launch
STAMPING THE ARTIST?
Workshop and performance at OVERGADEN
Thursday 9 December, 15.00 – 17.00
15.00 Quote Workshop
You are invited to attend a workshop where quotes / statements on intercultural artistic conditions will be created from rubber stamps produced by the artist Amir Zainorin. These collected quotations will then be used in the dissemination of the Danish Arts Council Intercultural Project, Invitation to the Possible, which will hopefully help to break down some existing barriers, both within and outside the existing arts system.
The workshop is organized as a discursive platform within the framework of the visual arts. Present will be the chairman of the National Arts Council Committee, Elisabeth Toubro and the head of Visual Arts Board, Anette Østerby.
Registration for the workshop by Tuesday 7 / 12 to Inger Krog Arts Board Visual Arts Center at ingerk@kunst.dk, max. 20 participants.
The workshop will take place in English and Danish
16.00 Performance / Video Installation
Arta Ghavami-Khesal and Amir Zainorin have both been accepted to the Danish Arts Council’s mentor programme for intercultural artists. Is it a seal of approval from the Danish art support system to be classified as an intercultural artist? What barriers might this involve? And how do Danish cultural institutions receive intercultural artists? These are some of the questions that Ghavami-Khesal and Zainorin will put up for debate in their performative video installation created as a part of the Arts Council’s interdisciplinary seminar Invitation to the Possible. With a documentary style and rich associating soundtrack, the audience is invited to an event where the artists themselves act as the physical exemplification of the labelled artist.
Everyone is welcome to the performance.
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