Athöfn – snúin afstaða til hlutarins

 

Dagana 29. og 30. janúar næstkomandi mun myndlistardeild Listaháskóla Íslands halda ráðstefnu undir yfirskriftinni “Athöfn- snúin afstaða til hlutarins”. Viðfangsefni ráðstefnunar er sú athöfn sem býr í listsköpunarferlinu og niðurstöðu þess.

 

Athöfnin sem hluti af listrænu sköpunarferli varð afgerandi þáttur listaverksins og listkenninga á seinni hluta 20 aldar. Verk og vinnuaðferðir listamanna eins og Jackson Pollock, Allan Kaprow, Hanna Wilke og Mary Kelly, svo nokkrir séu nefndir, settu athöfnina í nýtt og oft óvænt samhengi. Spurningar um ásetning, merkingu og afmörkun listrænnar athafnar frá öðrum meðvituðum athöfnum urðu að fræðilegu viðfangsefni og með tilkomu hreyfinga á borð við Fluxus, Naumhyggju og Land Art, varð hlutverk athafnarinnar jafnvel enn snúnara í ferli listrænnar sköpunar, og jafnframt áhugaverðara viðfangsefni.

 

Nú er lag að fjalla aftur um þennan þátt listrænnar sköpunar. Með tilkomu miðla eins og vídeólistar, internetsins, aðferðafræði þátttökulistar og póst stúdíó hugmynda, hefur hlutverk, merking, og aðferðafræðilegt samhengi athafna listamannsins tekið á sig fjölbreyttari myndir. Einnig vekur aukið vægi listrannsókna innan listaháskóla spurningar um hlutverk athafnarinnar í tengslum við listmiðilinn, í samhengi listaverksins, og í fræðilegri úrvinnslu.

 

Tekist verður á við hugmyndir um listræn sköpunarferli í fyrirlestrum og umræðum um verk og þemu þeirra listamanna sem þátt taka í ráðstefnunni. Ætlunin er að skoða aðferðafræði, sögu, fagurfræði, og almenna stöðu athafnarinnar í listsköpun samtímans.

 

Þátttakendur eru Bryndís H Snæbjörnsdóttir, gestaprófessor myndlistadeildar Listaháskóla Íslands, Frans Jacobi, prófessor á sviði gjörninga við Listaháskólann í Bergen, Johan Grimonprez, myndlistamaður með aðsetur í Brüssel, Ragnar Kjartansson, myndlistamaður með aðsetur í Reykjavík og Ulrika Ferm, prófessor fyrir staðbundna myndlist við Listaháskólann í Helsinki.

 

Allir eru velkomnir meðan húsrúm leyfir.

 

 

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Action – a twisted relation to the object

On the 29th and 30th of January the conference “Action – a twisted relation to the object” will be held at the Department of Fine Art at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts.
 

The action involved in the artistic process was brought into focus as a discernible feature of art making in the second half of the 20th century, especially in the context of artists like Jackson Pollock, Allan Kaprow, Hanna Wilke and Mary Kelly, to name a few. Questions about intentionality, meaning, and the demarcation of the creative act from other intentional actions became everyday features of art theory and commonplace in the writings of artists. With the introduction of Fluxus, Minimal art and Land art, the role of the action in the process of art became even more problematic, and more interesting. 

Now is a good time to revisit and reexamine this element of the artistic process. With the introduction of mediums like Film and Video art, Internet art, and approaches like post studio practice and participatory art, the role, meaning, and methodological context of the action of the artist has taken on more diverse dimensions. And with the rise of artistic research within the art academies questions about the role of action, in relation to the medium, to the artwork, and to theory is even more pressing.
 

The aim of the confrence is to look at methodological, historical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of this new status of the act in art making.

Participants are Bryndís H Snæbjörnsdóttir, visiting professor at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Frans Jacobi, professor in timebased media and performance at Bergen, Academy of Art & Design, Johan Grimonprez, artist living in Brüssels, Ragnar Kjartansson, artist living in Reykjavík and Ulrika Ferm, professor in site-specific art at the Academy in Helsinki.

 

 

 

DAGSKRÁ

Athöfn – snúin afstaða til hlutarins

 

Föstudagur 29. janúar

 

13.00   Setning ráðstefnu: Ólafur Sveinn Gíslason, prófessor og starfandi deildarforseti myndlistardeildar LHÍ. Ólafur kynnir Frans Jacobi.

 

Fyrirlestur I: Frans Jacobi, myndlistarmaður og prófessor á sviði gjörninga við Listaháskólann í Bergen

 

14:30   Kaffihlé

 

14:45   Jóhannes Dagsson, aðjúnkt og starfandi fagstjóri listfræða við myndlistardeildar LHÍ; kynnir Ragnar Kjartansson

 

Fyrirlestur II: Ragnar Kjartansson, myndlistarmaður með aðsetur í Reykjavík.

 

16:00   Kaffihlé

 

16:30   Pallborðsumræður

 

17:30   Dagskrárlok

 

 
Laugardagur 30 janúar

 

11:00   Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, prófessor myndlistardeildar LHÍ kynnir Ulriku Ferm.

 

Fyrirlestur III: Ulrika Ferm, myndlistarmaður og prófessor fyrir staðbundna myndlist við Listaháskólann í Helsinki

 

12:30   Hádegishlé

 

13:00   Hulda Stefánsdóttir, prófessor og fagstjóri meistaranámsbrautar í myndlist við LHÍ kynnir Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir.

 

Fyrirlestur IV: Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, myndlistarmaður og gestaprófessor við myndlistardeild Listaháskóla Íslands.

 

14:30   Kaffihlé

 

15:00   Erling Klingenberg, aðjúnkt við myndlistardeild LHÍ kynnir Johan Grimonprez.

 

Fyrirlestur V: Johan Grimonprez, myndlistamaður með aðsetur í Brussel

 

16:30  Kaffihlé

 

17:00   Pallborðsumræður

 

18:00   Ráðstefnulok.

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Action – a twisted relation to the object

 

Friday, November 29th

 

13:00   Welcome and introduction of first keynote speaker: Ólafur Sveinn Gíslason, Professor and acting Dean at the Department of Fine Art, IAA

 

Keynote lecture I: Frans Jacobi, artist and professor in timebased media and performance at Bergen, Academy of Art & Design

 

14:30   Coffee break

 

Johannes Dagsson, Adjunct and acting Programme Director, Art Theory at the Department of Fine Art, IAA; introduces Ragnar Kjartansson.

 

Keynote lecture II: Ragnar Kjartansson, artist living in Reykjavík

 

16:30   Coffee break

16:45   Panel discussions

 
Saturday, November 30th

 

11:00   Introduction of third keynote speaker: Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Professor at the Department of Fine Art, IAA.

 

Keynote lecture III: Ulrika Ferm, artist and professor in site-specific art at the Academy in Helsinki

 

12:30   Lunch break

13:00   Introduction of fourth keynote speaker: Hulda Stefánsdóttir, Professor and MA Fine Art programme director at the Department of Fine Art, IAA.  

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, artist and guest professor at the Department of Fine Art, IAA.

 

14:30   Coffee break

15:00   Introduction of fifth keynote speaker: Erling Klingenberg, Adjunct at the Department of fine Art, IAA.

 

Keynote lecture V: Johan Grimonprez, artist living in Brüssels

 

14:30   Coffee break

17:15   Panel discussion

18:00   Conference concludes

 

 

Frans Jacobi

 

Frans Jacobi is a visual artist. Lives and works in Copenhagen and Bergen. Jacobi works with performance, text and images. His performances and installations are often large scale scenarios with multiple participants adressing a range of political and societal issues. Using a kind of urgent aesthetics the temporality and presence becomes a point in itself.

 

Jacobi is professor in timebased media / performance at KHiB, Bergen Academy of Art & Design since 2012. He completed his PhD ‘Aesthetics of Resitance’ at Malmö Art Academy/Lunds University in 2012.

 

In 2014 Jacobi established the artist-group SYNSMASKINEN. The group works as a platform for the artistic-research project 'SYNSMASKINEN: 7 fields of contemporary crisis' based at KHiB, Bergen Academy of Art & Design. Simultaneously SYNSMASKINEN works as a platform for various other projects. 

http://www.fransjacobi.net

 

Ulrika Ferm 

Ulrika Ferm is a conceptual artist. Her often site-specific projects involve in-depth research to tackle historical and socio-political topics. She works in photography, installation and in collaborations often containing performance elements. She also belongs to the artist collective Platform in Vaasa which presents site specific disciplines. Apart from founding Platform, Ferm also has broad curatorial and organisational experience.

 

Ferm has an MA from the University of Art and Design Helsinki (1998) and also graduated from Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin (2001). Currently she is working as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

 

http://www.platform.fi/ulrika/

 

Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez's curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and MoMA. His works are in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Tate Modern, London. His films include dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) and Double Take (2009). Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale to Sundance, they garnered severalBest Director awards, the 2005 ZKM International Media Award, a Spirit Award and the 2009 Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and were also acquired by NBC Universal, ARTE, and FILM 4.

In 2011 Hatje Cantz Verlag published a reader on his work titled Johan Grimonprez: It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards, with contributions by Jodi Dean, Thomas Elsaesser, Tom McCarthy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Slavoj Žižek. Grimonprez currently divides his time between Brussels and New York, where he participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and lectures at the School of Visual Arts. His current film project (with author Andrew Feinstein), Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, was awarded a production grant from the Sundance Institute.

His distributors are Soda Pictures and Kino Lorber International, and his artwork is represented by the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, and the gallerie kamel mennour, Paris.
 
www.johangrimonprez.be

 

Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging become key tools in the artist's attempt to convey sincere emotion and offer a genuine experience to the audience.

 

Kjartansson's work has been exhibited widely. Recent solo exhibitions and performances have been held at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, New Museum in New York, ICA Boston, Guggenheim Bilbao, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. 

 

http://i8.is/artist/ragnar-kjartansson/

 

 

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir

Bryndís works collaboratively with the artist Mark Wilson. Their art practice is research based and socially-engaged, exploring issues of history, culture and environment in relation to both humans and non-human animals. Their artworks have been exhibited internationally and they have delivered papers at key conferences in animal studies worldwide. They are currently working with Anchorage Museum, Alaska on ‘Polarlab’, a two-year research project and they are part of a cross disciplinary team of researchers into ‘plant blindness’ funded by the Swedish Science Council and resulting in two site specific installations in Gothenburg.

 

Bryndís was a Professor at Akademin Valand (2009-2014) and a PhD supervisor (2010-2015). Together with Mark Wilson she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art from 2013-2015. Currently she is an adj. Professor at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, a Visiting Professor at the Icelandic Art Academy and a guest teacher at the University of Iceland.

 

www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com