Métamatic Reloaded

The Symposium is the opening statement of our upcoming exhibition:
“Métamatic Reloaded. New art projects in dialogue with Tinguely’s
drawing machines” 23.10.13 - 26.01.14

Tinguely’s 'Méta-Matic' drawing machines were one of his most radical
inventions. In 2009 the ‘Métamatic Research Initiative’ in Amsterdam
mounted a large competition to explore the potential of drawing
machines for art today. Ten selected projects with a wide variety of
perspectives prove the continued relevance of the theme, amongst them
a performative work by Marina Abramovic, a large environment by Thomas
Hirschhorn, and an installation by Jon Kessler.

Program:

Wednesday, March 20
19:00
Lecture Thomas Hirschhorn
Diachronic-Pool

Thursday, March 21
9:00
Roland Wetzel & Siebe Tettero Welcome note

SESSION 1: MOVEMENT
Introduction by Susan Holden

9:20-12:00
Kate Linzey
Jean Tinguely's Homage & Len Lye's Windwand cluster

Alex J. Taylor
Flying Colours: Alexander Calder and the jet age

Christoph Grafe
A place for the avant-garde in the city - The invention of the
Kulturhus in Stockholm, 1966 – 1974

10:00 Coffee

12:00 Panel discussion: Aleksandra Gerstein (moderator) and Koos Bosma

SESSION 2: PARTICIPATION
Introduction by Stephanie Hanor

14:00-17:10
Céline Berchiche
Du rôle historique des peintures mobiles dans la participation
du spectateur

Tanja Fischer
Kunst und Publikum – Synästhetische Strategien in den monumentalen
Projekten Jean Tinguelys und Niki de Saint Phalles

Andres Pardey
Partizipation – Interaktion. Begriffe und Werke

Frederik Schikowski
Apparative Kunst und einige daraus resultierende Fragen

15:20 Coffee

17:10 Panel discussion: Stephanie Hanor (moderator), Jitish Kallat

17:40-18:30 Gallery tours

19:00
Keynote Pamela M. Lee
‘An Inveterate Enemy of Efficiency': The Lessons of the Meta-Matics

Friday, March 22

SESSION 3: PLAY
Introduction by Pamela M. Lee

9:00-12:10
Angela Fishel
Kunst und Machine

Marion Hohlfeldt
Sub specie Ludi. Funktion und Struktur des Spiels im Werk von Jean
Tinguely

Noémi Joly
‘Static, static, static! Be Static!...’: Jean Tinguely et ZERO, autour
de l’année 1959

Janna Schoenberger
Bewogen Beweging’s Ludic Anti-Machine: Jean Tinguely’s Cyclograveur

10:20 Coffee

12:10 Panel discussion: Pamela M. Lee (moderator), Alanna Heiss,
Ranjit Bhatnagar

SESSION 4: PERFORMANCE
Introduction by Sarah Wilson

14:00-17:10
Hugo Daniel
Les Méta-Matics de Tinguely et l’automatisme graphique au tournant des
années 1960

Gerard Forde
Dramatis Personæ - The Theatrical Collaborations of Kenneth Koch and
Jean Tinguely

Jenny Graser
The Interplay of Objecthood and Eventfulness Exemplified by Jean
Tinguely’s Action Sculptures

Jenevive Nykolak
Movements in the Museum 1964-1970

Elisabeth Tiso
The Public Art of Jean Tinguely 1959-1991: Between Performance and
Permanence

15:20 Coffee

17:10-18:00 Panel discussion: Sarah Wilson (moderator), Brigitte
Zieger, Aleksandra Hirszfeld
Sarah Wilson/Brigitte Zieger: Exploding the great phallus: from Niki
to Brigitte

19:00
Lecture/Performance John Bock

Saturday, March 23

SESSION 5: CAUGHT IN THE CIRCUITS
Introduction by Emily Eliza Scott

9:00
Yann Perreau
Jean Tinguely and the West Coast

9:45
Screening David Brinkley’s Journal episode on Tinguely’s Study for an
End of the World No. 2 (1962), plus short extract from earlier episode
featuring Nikki de Saint Phalle

10:15 Coffee

10:45
Jane McFadden
Figure and Field: Television as Sculptural Site

11:45 Panel discussion: Joao Simoes, Pors & Rao, Angela Bartholomew
and Emily Eliza Scott (moderators)

End of the Symposium

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