Workshop

PROGRAMME

09:00-09:45
Toni Hildebrandt (Bern)
Desert and Source: Metaphorological Reflections

09:45-10:45
Hans Baumann (Artist, Los Angeles),
Karen Pinkus (Cornell)
Between Life and Nonlife: The Great Salt Lake as Desert Space

Coffee Break (15min)

11.00-12.00
Christine Göttler (Bern)
Waste Lands at the Court of Wilhelm V of Bavaria: The Poetry, Ecology, and Spirituality of Wilderness, circa 1600

12:00-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-14:45
Matilde Nardelli (London)
The Desert as Medium

14.45-15.30
Vega Tescari (Mendrisio)
Deserted Places: Resonating Emptiness

Coffee break (30min.)

16:00-16.45
Steffen Zierholz (Bern)
Pietra paesina. Considerations on the Materiality and Imagination of the Desert

16:45
Concluding Remarks by Gerhard Wolf (Florence) and
Final Discussion