CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

ZiF:Workshop Bauhaus Modernism and its Myths (November 15 - 17, 2007)

in co-operation with the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts
(ICS) Zurich University of the Arts

organized by
Anja Baumhoff (Loughborough University, U.K.) and Magdalena Droste (BTU
Cottbus)

Place: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Universität
Bielefeld, Wellenberg 1, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany

Thursday, November 15:

13.30 Welcome address by Ipke Wachsmuth, Managing director of ZiF
and the organizers

13.45 Anja Baumhoff: Introduction. Bauhaus Modernism and its Myths
14.30 Magdalena Droste: Bauhaus research today

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

The modernism myth

16.00 Klaus von Beyme: Modernism in the 20th century
16.30 Christoph Wagner: "Is modernism our antiquity?" On the creation of
myths in the Bauhaus tradition
17.00 Discussion

Inside the Bauhaus

17.30 Peter Bernhard: Guest lectures at the Bauhaus - Insides into the
"2nd faculty"
18.00 Helmut Lethen: Reflections of philosophical anthropology among the
Bauhaus architects
18.30 Discussion

20.00
Finissage of the exhibition: "Bauhaus in Bielefeld: Benita Koch-Otte"
Introduction: Irene Below.
Public reading from the letters of Benita Koch-Otte by Ursula Grüß

Friday, November 16:

Inside the Bauhaus II

9.00 Paul Paret: Bauhaus Modernism and the Impossibility of Sculpture
9.30 Robin Schuldenfrei: Luxury, Production, Reproduction
10.00 Discussion

10.30 Coffee break

Famous artists

11.00 Wolfgang Ruppert: "Upheaval approached". Kandinsky at the Bauhaus
12.00 Karl Schawelka: Kandinskys theory of colours - a systematic
misunderstanding
12.30 Discussion

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break

Famous artists II

14.30 Magdalena Droste: Constructions of masculinity in modernism:
Oskar Schlemmer
15:00 Kathleen James Chakraborty: Abstraction and Ornament: Henry van
de Velde and Walter Gropius
15.30 Discussion

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break

Ornament and objectivity
16.30 Anja Baumhoff: Some thoughts on the objective (sachliche) form
17.00 Sigrid Schade: Contradictions - myths of abstract modernism
between "immateriality of art" and "materiality of handicraft"
17.30 Discussion

Saturday, November 17:

Architektur (Architecture)
9.00 Walter Prigge: Displayed modernism. The Bauhaus building in Dessau
9.30 Irene Below: The unknown architect and the other modernism.
Leopold Fischer in Dessau and in exile

10.00 Discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

Architecture II
11.00 Regina Goeckede: The Bauhaus after 1933: Transgressions of the
architect-exile and semantic shifts *
11.30 Frederic J. Schwartz: Functionalism Today": Adorno, Bloch and the
Legacy of Modernism in the BRD
12.00 Discussion

12.30 Lunch break

14.00 - 15.30 Panel discussion: Tendencies of modern Bauhaus research

A. Jaeggi, M. Droste, A. Baumhoff, R. C. Washton Long

* in German

More information:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZIF/AG/2007/11-15-Baumhoff.html