OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
RE-ENACTMENT STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND THEORY
Organized by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini

International Symposium, 16-17 November 2017
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

Programme

16 NOVEMBER 2017

9:30 Morning coffee
9:45 Opening remarks

PANEL I: MISSING ARCHIVES AND COUNTER-MEMORY
10:00 – 10:10 Katja Gentric
Political and Artistic Forms of Re-Enactments in South Africa
10:10 – 10:20 Leora Farber
Productive Equivocalities and Compelling Complicities: Ayana Jacksons’ Exhibition "Archival Impulse"
10:20 – 10:30 Oleg Gelikman
Re-Enactment as Counter-Memory: Joshua Oppenheimer’s "The Act of Killing" and the Extreme of Documentary
10:30 – 11:00 Panel discussion

PANEL II: UNCOVERING THE PAST, PERFORMING THE PRESENT
11:00 – 11:10 Roberta Agnese
Archival Re-Enactment and the Role of Fiction: Walid Raad and "The Atlas Group Archive"
11:10 – 11:20 Pio Abad
The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders: Reconstruction as ‘Democratic Gesture’
11:20 – 11:30 Kata Krasznahorkai
Performance Art in Reports of the Secret Service: Re-Enactment in State Security Archives
11:30 – 12:30 Panel discussion followed by a Q&A

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

PANEL III: SABOTAGING GENDER TEMPORALITIES
14:00 – 14:10 Lieke Hettinga
Queer Re-Enactments and Embodied Translations
14:10 – 14:20 Diana Baker Smith
Heterochronic Feminisms: Strategies of Re-Enactment in Contemporary Art
14:20 – 14:50 Panel discussion

14:50 Coffee break

PANEL IV: PHANTOMS OF THE NOT YET
15:30 – 15:40 Kirill Chepurin
Utopia, Over and Over Again
15:40 – 15:50 Özge Serin
Insistence: Temporality of the Death Fast and the Political
15:50 – 16:00 Ulrike Wagner
Everyday Aesthetics as a Practice of Renewal: Cavell, Emerson, Hopper
16:00 – 16:30 Panel discussion

16:30 Coffee break

PANEL V: RESTAGING DELAYED AND UNCOMFORTABLE LEGACIES
17:00 – 17:10 Pablo Gonçalo
Speculative Writing: Unfilmed Scripts and Perverted Archival Images
17:10 – 17:20 Stefan Solomon
Delays in Production under the Brazilian Dictatorship: "O Rei da Vela" from Stage to Screen
17:20 – 17:30 Cory Browning
Toward the Concept of Restaging: Terror and Terrorism in the Algerian War
17:30 – 18:30 Panel discussion followed by a Q&A

18:30 Coffee break

19:30 Keynote
Sven Lütticken
Trials, Tribunals, Reconstructions

17 NOVEMBER 2017

9:30 Morning coffee

PANEL VI: PRESERVATION, RECONCILIATION, REHABILITATION
10:00 – 10:10 Amy Brost
Reconciling Authenticity and Re-Creation: An Art Conservation Perspective
10:10 – 10:20 Joanna Kiliszek
Living Simulacrum. "The Neoplastic Room" in Łódź: 1948/1960/1966/1983/2008/2017
10:20 – 10:30 Natasha Adamou
Exhibitions, Audiences, and Institutions: Re-staging Richard Hamilton’s "Growth and Form", ICA 1951/Tate Modern 2014
10:30 – 10:40 Michela Alessandrini
Repetition: Summer Display 1983 at Van Abbemuseum, or What Curatorial Archives Tell about Art Institutions’ Dynamics
10:40 – 11:10 Panel discussion

11:10 Coffee break

PANEL VII: UNFOLDING ART’S HISTORIES AND KNOWLEDGE
11:30 – 11:40 Gaby Wijers
UNFOLD: Strategic Importance of Re-Interpretation for Media Art Mediation and Conservation
11:40 – 11:50 Hélia Marçal, Daniela Salazar
Political-Timing Specific Performance Art in the Realm of the Museum: The Potential of Re-Enactment Practice of Memorialization
11:50 – 12:00 Serena Cangiano, Davide Fornari, Azalea Seratoni
Re-Enactment as Method: How to Overcome Programmed and Kinetic Art Obsolescence
12:00 – 12:10 Alethea Rockwell
‘We Are Gathering Experience’: Re-Staging the History of Art Education
12:10 – 13:10 Panel discussion followed by a Q&A

13:10 – 14:30 Lunch break

PANEL VIII: AFTERLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND THEATRE
14:30 – 14:40 Daniela Sacco
Re-Enactment in Theatre: Some Reflections on the Philosophical Status of Re-Staging
14:40 – 14:50 Edward A. Vazquez
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Redistributive Strategies
14:50 – 15:10 Panel discussion

PANEL IX: TRANSLATING ABSENCES
15:10 – 15:20 Pierre Saurisse
Performance in the Museum: Between Presence and Absence
15:20 – 15:30 Laura Almeida
Re-Enacting and Forgetting: Tania Bruguera’s Tribute to Ana Mendieta
15:30 – 15:40 Giulia Damiani
How to Sing a Prophecy: Scripting from Le Nemesiache’s Archive
15:40 – 15:50 Livia Monnet
Reenacting Historical Trauma, Decoloniality, and Planetarity in Almagul Menlibayeva’s "Transformation" (2016)
15:50 – 16:30 Panel discussion

16:30 Coffee break

PANEL X: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
17:00 – 17:15 Malin Arnell
In the Beginning There Is an End: Approaching Gina Pane, Approaching "Discours Mou et Mat"
17:15 – 17:30 Juliana Hodkinson
Resounding Difficult Histories
17:30 – 17:45 Vera Sofia Mota, Fransien van der Putt
UNFOLD, Nan Hoover: About Reinterpretation and the Importance of Respecting the Variability of Artworks
17:45 – 18:30 Closing remarks followed by a Q&A

19:30 Screening and Artist Talk with Rosa Barba and Filipa César
Errant Archives
Filipa César, "The Embassy", 2011 (HD, colour, sound, 27’)
Rosa Barba, "From Source to Poem", 2016 (35 mm, colour, optical sound, 12’)