Artistic Subversions: Setting the Conditions of Display

Young Researchers’ Colloquium, Organized by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in
Conjunction with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

February 2, 2017
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Main Building (De Boelelaan 1105), 14A-00

*Attendance to the colloquium is free of charge, but registration is required. Please register by sending an email indicating your name (and affiliation) to vuartandculture[at]gmail.com no later than January 23.

9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9:30 INTRODUCTION
Angela M. Bartholomew, PhD Candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

10:00 PANEL ONE
The Work of Art as Exhibition

1. Bertrand Lavier Presents Bertrand Lavier: The Work of Art as Exhibition
Susan L. Power

2. El Pintor Gordín en el ICI
Catalina L. Imizcoz

DISCUSSION
Moderated by Katja Kwastek, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, VU

11:15 PANEL TWO
The Periphery and the Frame: Inclusion & Exclusion

3. Social Structures: Helio Oiticica’s Parangolés
Alida Jekabson

4. Vector Pioneers: Progressions in the Chicano Art Movement
Sally Mincher

5. The Master’s Tools Revisited: Towards a ‘Decolonization’ of Curatorial Praxis?
David Frohnapfel

DISCUSSION
Moderated by Jelle Bouwhuis, Curator, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

14:00 PANEL THREE
Installation (as) Art & the Exhibition (of) Space

6. Reversing the Logic of Display: Empty Exhibitions
Anne Gregersen

7. When Space Becomes Exhibition: A Contemporary Syllogism
Pamela Bianchi

(PANEL THREE CONTINUED)

8. De-installing Ideas: Installation as an Institutional Discourse
Jack Smurthwaite

DISCUSSION
Moderated by Anna Lundström, PhD, Lecturer and Researcher, Stockholm University & Researcher, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

16:00 PANEL FOUR
Authenticity & the Production of Value

9. From Harmony through Warning to Filth:
The Installations of James McNeill Whistler, Joseph Kosuth, and Darren Waterston
Rachel Schwartz

10. The Attention Economy as a Condition of Display
Steyn Bergs

11. The Jungle in the Peephole
Tamar Shafrif

DISCUSSION
Moderated by Sven Lütticken, Lecturer in Art History, VU

17:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS/PLENARY DISCUSSION
Katja Kwastek, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, VU

18:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Angela Dimitrakaki & Kirsten Lloyd

The Young Researchers’ Colloquium, Artistic Subversions: Setting the Conditions of Display is held in conjunction with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’s ‘Lose Yourself! – A Symposium on Labyrinthine Exhibitions as Curatorial Model’ (February 3-4). See http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/theory/lose-yourself for more information.