HEAVEN & EARTH
An interdisciplinary conference Organised by The London Consortium in
collaboration with Tate Modern, the
Goethe-Institut and the Institut Français
http://www.londonconsortium.com/heavenandearth/

Conference Programme
London, Tate Modern, 27-29 January 2005

Thursday, 27.01.05

6.00 - 6.30
Registration and Welcome

6.30 - 8.00
Heaven on Earth.
Bjørn Melhus and Mathieu Laurette in conversation with Stuart Comer Tate
Modern
Starr Auditorium Followed by wine reception

Friday, 28.01.05

10.00 - 11.45
The Artist's Heaven
Tate Modern, Mac Auley Studio B
Anne Leth Sørensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Heaven on Earth Mystical Unity without God
Ricarda Vidal, The London Consortium, London
Hoorray! The Futurists' Race towards Heaven
Anthony Padgett, London
Heaven and Earth in Postmodern Religious Art
Dorothée Brill, The London Consortium, London
"Adhesive Tape and Screws are my Heaven on Earth"

11.45 - 12.15
Performance by Phoebe von Held & Aura Satz, London
Materialising the Heavenly Voice

12.15 - 1.15 Lunch

1.15 - 3.00
Reflections on the Border
Dr Birgit Mersmann, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
Approaching the Horizon. Intellectual Perspectives on Heaven and Earth
Louise Hojer, The London Consortium, London
Dying Art
Colette Meacher, The London Consortium, London
Gone from the path direct: Dante.Beckett
Vlad Strukov, The London Consortium, London
Artificial Paradise

3.00 - 3.30 Coffee break

3.30 - 5.00
Architecture and Utopia
Rubén de la Nuez, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scale Models of Babel: Architectural Ideologies
Matt Taunton, The London Consortium, London
Utopia and Historicity Corbusier and Ballard
* Robert Bond, University of Cambridge
"The Chapel at the End of the World": Religious Retreat in Iain Sinclair's
Landor's Tower

7.00- 9.00
Heaven and Earth in Artist Films
Film program curated by Bjørn Melhus
Goethe-Institut, London
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/enindex.htm
free for conference participants

Saturday, 29.01. 05

10.00 - 11.30
Heavenly Earthly Bodies
Tate Modern, Mac Auley Studio B
Jean Lall, University of Kent
Gaia, Ouranos and the Titans
Carlton Hughes, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
The Transcendental Obscene in Michelangelo
Melanie Koronka, The London Consortium, London
Forged out of Crud and Stardust: The Homoerotic Aesthetic of Robert
Mapplethorpe
Dr. Vivien Gaston, Monash University, London
The Face of Heaven and Earth: Self-Portraits

11.30-12.00
Performance by Menaka PP Bora, Goldsmith College / University of London,
London
Dancing through Soul and Body

12.00 - 12.45 Lunch

12.45 - 2.15
Signalling the Divine
Tate Modern, Mac Auley Studio B

Cathy Greenhalgh, London College of Communication / University
of the Arts, London
Cinematography as Alchemy
Alessandra Buccheri, University of Oxford, Oxford
Architecture of Clouds in Theatre and Art
Nicola Müllerschön, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Fra Angelico: Perception of the Divine
Rajiv Kaushik, University of Essex
Phenomenology and Religion. 'Heaven belongs to Earth'

2.15 - 2.45
Presentation by Stephen Duncan, London
Angels Underground

2.45 - 3.00 Coffee break

3.00 - 4.30
Heavenly Earthly Values
Tate Modern, MacAuley Studio B

Prof Dr Carla Milani Damião, Mackenzie University, Saõ Paulo, Brazil
Co-existence of Heaven and Earth
Eberendu dm. Chuz, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Africa & Centre for
the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India
Heaven and Hell in African Traditional Thought System
Dr Claudio Bozzi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Politics and the Return of Evil
Prof Dr Douglas Kahr, Asumption College, Worcester, USA
King and Emperor Ruler by God's Grace

6.30 - 9.00
The Sound of Heaven and Earth
with Luc Ferrari, Kaffe Matthews, David Grubbs, Achim
Wollscheid, Eric Roth and Olias Nil
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Followed by wine reception at Tate Modern, East Room,
7th floor

Please register for the conference at
http://www.londonconsortium.com/heavenandearth/
or contact us at heavenandearth_2005@yahoo.co.uk