The department of Arts and Culture Studies – together with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and the Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab – will be hosting an afternoon symposium on arts/culture in a changing urban landscape, including a keynote lecture by prof.dr. PASCAL GIELEN (University of Antwerp) on A New Aesthetics of the Real, a discussion and response by dr. Florian Cramer (Willem de Kooning Academy) and dr. Joke van der Zwaard (Leeszaal West) and three short presentations by Arts and Culture Honours students.
Everyone is welcome, and entrance is free for students/teachers but places are limited (almost sold out)!
We hope to see you all on March 28. It will be great!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Pauwke Berkers (coordinator
Program
3:45 – 4 pm: Doors open
4 – 4:45 pm: Presentations by Honours Programme students
Break
5 – 5:40 pm: Keynote Pascal Gielen
5:40 - 6 pm: Responses by Florian Cramer and Joke van der Zwaard
6 pm: Drinks, after plenary questions
Keynote Pascals Gielen A New Aesthetics of the Real
In his lecture, Pacal Gielen will share key insights from the recently published ‘Commonism: A New Aesthetics of the Real’ (Valiz 2018, edited together with Nico Dockx), as thematic framework for the Honours Programme students’ research into ‘commonism’ and social and communal practices in and as art. Prior to the Keynote, participating honours students will present their findings of research carried out in collaboration with different cultural partners in Rotterdam. With responses by Florian Cramer (Willem de Kooning Academy & Piet Zwart Institute) and Joke van der Zwaard (Leeszaal Rotterdam West).
Student presentations
1. WDWxEUR
The nature of the relationship between the co-creative practices of cultural institutions and participants’ individual experiences.
Coördinator | partners:
-Niels van Poecke (EUR/ACS)
-Yoeri Meessen & Docus van der Made (WdW)
Students:
-Julian Beltran
-Anastasia Organ
-Lotte van de Bergh
2. GENTRIFICATION IN CHARLOIS: THE ROLE OF AUTONOMOUS INITITAIVES IN CHANGING PROCESSES AND PROCESSES OF CHANGE
Exploring the extent to which artist initiatives are aware of their role in the gentrification process, and to what extent this awareness of their role as gentrifying agents affects the actions they take.
Coordinator | partners:
-Pauwke Berkers (EUR/ACS)
-Rib, Textielfabrique, Shimmer, Onono, Walgenbach, B.A.D.
Students:
-Lisa Velema
-Salome Balderrabano
-Cassandra Langenskiöld
3. SCRIPTING THE BLUE, CIRCULAR ECONOMY: A MANIFESTO FOR BLUE CITY’S WET LAB
“Imagine a world, where human and nature live as one. A world, where one does not live at the expense of another. Imagine a world, where, side by side, human and nature thrive. (…)”
Coordinator | partners:
-Mariangela Lavanga (EUR/ACS)
-Blue City
Students:
-Jana Vondráčková
-Sunniva Ottestad
-Gaia Regoli
- More information
Where? Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Witte de Withstraat 50)
When? Thursday 28 March 2019
What’s the cost? Free (for students and teachers)
Organizers: Niels van Poecke, Pauwke Berkers, Mariangela Lavanga
Hosts: Department of Arts and Culture Studies & Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Powered by: Together the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab (RASL) and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art present a keynote lecture by Pascal Gielen, as concluding chapter to the Honours Programme of the Arts and Culture Studies of ESHCC.