ONLINE – Bio art before Bio art – The living as cultural expression

Programm

Thursday 25th February 9:00 Opening 9:15 First Session Chairperson: KLAUS WEBER WITH ANIMALS 9:30 Animals and ambiguity: monkey theatre as symbolic performance in pre-Revolutionary Paris ALAN ROSS, Tenure Track Professor University of Vienne, D Phil in Modern History, Oxford, Humboldt Graduate School Post-Doc Fellow, History Department, Humboldt University, Berlin. 10:15 From beast to machine: transformations of non-human actors in cultural performances DAVID KRYCH, PhD in philosophy, theatre, film and media studies at the University of Vienne, Researcher consultant at the Danube University Krems. 11:00 BREAK THE VEGETAL WORLD AS ART 11:15 How a Garden Turns into the Emblem of a Cosmopolitan City and How a Rose is Part of the Therapeutic Process GABRIELA-MARIANA LUCA, Associate Professor, PhD, Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy,Timișoara, Romania and, DANIELA ȘILINDEAN, Associate Professor, PhD, Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy,Timișoara, Romania. 12:00 LUNCH 14:00 Second Session 2 Chairperson: JULIO VELASCO FROM ANIMALS 14:15 Les bêtes dehors ! (mais pas leur simulacre) SERGIO DALLA BERNARDINA, professeur d’ethnologie à l’université de Bretagne-Occidentale, IIAC-LACI (Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain – CNRS EHESS). Presentation in French. 15:00 Vivid Images: Life, Matter, Look ALESSANDRA RUSSO, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, at Columbia University. In dialogue with Julio Velasco (9:00 NY time). 15:45 BREAK THE HUMAN BODY AS EXPRESSION 16:00 Artificial Cranial Deformation in the Andes. A Body Language From Aesthetic to Magical Meanings JERÔME THOMAS, Graduate in History, Lecturer in Anthropology (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Associate researcher IRIEC (Institut de Recherche Intersite en Etudes Culturelles). 16:45 Building Images on the Living Body. Over and Beyond Representational Art in the Pacific. SÉBASTIEN GALLIOT, researcher in anthropology at the French National Centre for Research (CNRS), member of the CREDO (Centre de Recherche et de Docuentation sur l’Océanie). Friday 26th February Third Session Chairperson: OLGA KISSELEVA AND JULIO VELASCO LIVING IN CONTEMPORARY ART 9:00 LUGANSAD: Artistic Assemblages of wildflowers and naturalness in landscape configurations. JANNA MAMBETOVA. PhD candidate (University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne), founder of Public Fund „Cultural Dialogue“ and art-manager. 9:45 Living Matter and Non-representationalism in Current Bio Art  REGINE RAPP, art historian, curator and co-director of Art Laboratory Berlin. 10:30 BREAK 10:45 Bio-art projects facing the crisis of sensitivity EMELINE GOUGEON, Ph.D student in Sciences of Art at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Master’s degree in Cultural Engineering applied to art-science projects, visiting researcher at Lasco IdeaLab (Institut Mines-Télécom Business-School Paris). 11:30 Discussion and Conclusions