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“Doing Memory” Art, Research and the Politics of Memory and History

Thursday June 13th, 2013Thursday September 28th, 2017 derschmidt 9362 Views Alka Pande, Ari Joskowicz, Cathérine Hug, Doron Rabinovici, Elisabeth v. Samsonow, Emma Tarlo, Eva Blimlinger, Friedemann Derschmidt, Haim Ben Shitrit, Heidemarie Uhl, Justine Frank, Karin Schneider, Laliv Melamed, Luisa Ziaja, Marianne Hirsch, Marika Schmiedt, Maxim Komar-Myshkin, Niko Wahl, Roee Rosen, Tal Adler, Thomas Mayer, Tomer Gardi, Udi Edelman, Vida Bakondy, Yifat Gutman, Yochai Avrahami

Conference

13/06/2013 – 15/06/2013

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien),

Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna,

Aktzeichensaal, Souterrain, S05a

The art-research conference “Doing Memory” examines artistic practices in the context of the politics of memory and visual research, primarily in Austria and Israel. Artists, researchers, theoreticians and curators will present case studies in the format of intimate, yet public dialogues. They will examine together the way local politics of memory and history are represented, constructed, neglected and also interlinked with each other. These dialogues are aimed at developing an understanding of what kind of knowledge is produced in such practices.

The conference is produced in the framework of “MemScreen”, a project fi nanced by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), art-based research program (PEEK) 2011 – 2013 and is located at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

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Thursday, 13/06/2013

“Private Practices of Memory: The Construction of Biographies and Families.”

09:00 am

Coffee

09:15 am

Greeting and program

Karin Schneider, project MemScreen

09:30 am

Opening speech Eva Blimlinger, rector of the Academy of

Fine Arts, Vienna

09:45 am – 11:30am

Better than the Real Thing

Discussing History with Justine Frank, Maxim Komar-Myshkin and others

Roee Rosen (artist) and Niko Wahl (curator)

11:45 am – 01:30 pm

Album as Testimony Political Dimensions of Private Commemoration

Vida Bakondy (historian) and Marianne Hirsch (visual theoretician)

02:30 pm – 04:15 pm

The Production of Ideologies in the Frame of the Family

Friedemann Derschmidt (artist) and Thomas Mayer (historian)

04:30 pm – 05:30 pm

Reflections and reactions

Udi Edelman (curator); Elisabeth v. Samsonow (philosopher)

Friday, 14/06/2013

“The Politics of Memory: Repression and Representation of Histories.”

09:00 am

Coffee

09:30 am – 11:15 am

From Memory to Memorial Practices of Soldiers’ Commemoration in Israel and Austria

Laliv Melamed (visual researcher) and Heidemarie Uhl (historian)

11:30 am – 01:15 pm

What Remains – The Nearly Seamless Continuity of Racism and the Persecution of the Roma

Ari Joskowicz (historian) and Marika Schmiedt (artist)

02:30 pm – 04:15 pm

Voluntary Participation – Representation of Civil Society through Group Portrait Photography

Tal Adler (artist), Karin Schneider (art mediator) and Emma Tarlo (social anthropologist)

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm

Reflections and reactions

Luisa Ziaja (curator)

Saturday, 15/06/2013

“Local Politics of History and Identity: The Problem of Translation.”

09:30 am – 12:00 pm

Politics of history tour in Vienna

01:00 pm – 02:45 pm

Heritage at the Margins

Yochai Avrahami (artist) and Yifat Gutman (sociologist)

03:00 pm – 04:00 pm

Oriental Bavarian

Haim Ben Shitrit (artist)

04:00 pm – 05:45 pm

Double Talk in Context

Tomer Gardi (writer) and Doron Rabinovici (writer)

06.00 pm – 07:00 pm

Reflections and reactions

Alka Pande (curator); Cathérine Hug (curator)