MODERNITY and CONTEMPORANEITY:
Antinomies of Art and Culture After the 20th Century
In the aftermath of modernity, and the passing of the postmodern, how are
we to know and
show what it is to live in the conditions of contemporaneity?
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4: MODERNITY AND MODERNISM: NOW AND WHEN
Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall
| 8:30-9:30am. |
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REGISTRATION (Scaife Foyer, Carnegie
Museum of Art) |
| 9:30-10:00am |
OFFICIAL WELCOME (Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall)
Professor Mark Nordenberg, Chancellor, and Dr. James V. Maher,
Provost and Senior
Vice-Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
Mr. Richard Armstrong, Director, Carnegie Museum of Art
Professor Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, for the Conveners
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| 10:00-11:00am |
FREDRIC JAMESON, Duke University
Reconsidering Some
Fundamental Categories of the Postmodern |
| 11:00-12:00am |
BORIS GROYS, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Topology of Contemporary Art |
| 12:00-2:00pm. |
Lunch Break, Opportunity to view the 54th
Carnegie International Exhibition, CMA upper galleries
Opportunity
to view the exhibition Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China:
Reinventing
Chinese Tradition in a New Century, University Art
Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building.
Opportunity to visit the Book
Café, featuring the publications of many of the speakers,
The Cloisters,
Frick Fine Arts Building (directly across Schenley Drive, enter side
door) |
| 12:45-1:50pm |
Screening: The Hypothesis of a Painting (Raoul Ruíz)
in Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall |
| 2:00-3:00pm |
ROBERT STORR, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
Period or Ellipsis?
Some Doubts about the Postness of
Postmodernity |
| 3:00-3:45pm |
MCKENZIE WARK, New School University
A Hacker History to the Present |
| 3:45-4:00pm |
Coffee Break and Book Café, The Cloisters,
Frick Fine
Arts Building (directly across Schenley Drive, enter side door) |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
SUELY BELINHA ROLNIK, Catholic University of São
Paulo
Virtual Paradises: The Religion of Integrated World Capitalism |
| 5:00-6:00pm |
ROSALIND KRAUSS, Columbia University, New York
Some
Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time |
| 6:30-8:00pm |
Reception, The Mattress Factory, (500 Sampsonia Way,
Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
Current exhibition: New Installations, Artists
in Residence: Cuba, see
www.mattress.org |
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5: INTERNAL MUTINIES: HISTORICAL TRANSITIONS
Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall
| 8:00-9:00am |
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REGISTRATION (Scaife Foyer, Carnegie
Museum of Art) |
| 9:00-10:00am |
INTRODUCTION to the theme of the day (Carnegie Museum of
Art Lecture Hall)
OKWUI ENWEZOR, University of Pittsburgh, Introduction
GEETA KAPUR, Independent critic and curator, New Delhi
With
reference to a cultural conjuncture: art in contemporary India
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| 10:00-10:45am |
WU HUNG, University of Chicago
Constructing
"Contemporary Chinese Art" in a Global Space |
| 10:45-11:15am |
Coffee Break and Book Café, The Cloisters,
Frick Fine
Arts Building (directly across Schenley Drive, enter side door) |
| 11:15-1:15pm |
PANEL: ART AND EXHIBITIONS NOW
Moderator: LAURA HOPTMAN,
Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum
of Art,
and curator
of the 54th Carnegie International Exhibition
IWONA BLASWICK, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Title to be
advised
NICOLAS BOURRIAUD, Co-director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Globalization and Contemporary Art
GAO MINGLU, State University of New York at Buffalo
An Allegory
of the Illusion of Modernist Presence: Chinese Modernism?
A forgotten
corner in the contemporary Chinese art world
HELEN MOLESWORTH, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for
the Arts, Ohio
Analog Project Description
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| 1:15-2:30pm |
Lunch Break, Opportunity to view the 54th
Carnegie International Exhibition, CMA upper galleries
Opportunity
to view the exhibition Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China:
Reinventing
Chinese Tradition in a New Century, University Art
Gallery,
Frick Fine Arts Building.
Opportunity to visit the Book
Café, featuring the publications of many of the speakers,
The Cloisters,
Frick Fine Arts Building (directly across Schenley Drive, enter side
door) |
| 2:30-3:30pm |
SYLVESTER O. OGBECHIE, University of California, Santa
Barbara
The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the
New Global Order |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee break and Book Café, The
Cloisters, Frick Fine Arts Building |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
JONATHAN HAY, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University
The Otherly Modern and the Para-Modern: China and Africa |
| 5:00-6:00pm |
BRUNO LATOUR, Centre de sociologie de l'innovation,
Ecole national supérieure des mines,
Paris
Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of
Politics. |
| 6:30-10:00pm |
Friday Nights at the Warhol, complimentary entry to the
Museum, then snacks and cash bar,
Andy Warhol Museum (117 Sandusky
Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
Current exhibition: Andy
Warhol’s Time Capsules, see
www.warhol.org |
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6: THE CONTEMPORANEITY QUESTION: THE POLITICS OF
TEMPORALITY
| MORNING |
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VENUE: Alumni Hall Lecture Theatre, 7th Floor,
University of Pittsburgh, 4277 Fifth Avenue, Oakland. |
| 8:00-9:00am |
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REGISTRATION (Lobby, Alumni Hall
Lecture Theatre, 7th Floor) |
| 9:00-10:15am |
INTRODUCTION to the theme of the day (Alumni Hall
Lecture Theatre)|
NANCY CONDEE, University of Pittsburgh, Introduction
ANTONIO NEGRI, independent scholar, Venice (by video stream)
Time for Revolution
(This session is sponsored by generous support from the University
Center for International
Studies and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,
University of Pittsburgh) |
| 10:15-11:15am |
COLIN RICHARDS, University of Witwatersrand
The Violent
Present in Current South African Art |
| 11:15-1:30pm |
Lunch Break, Opportunity to view the 54th
Carnegie International Exhibition, CMA upper galleries
Opportunity
to view the exhibition Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China:
Reinventing
Chinese Tradition in a New Century, University Art
Gallery,
Frick Fine Arts Building.
Opportunity to visit the Book
Café, featuring the publications of many of the speakers,
The Cloisters,
Frick Fine Arts Building (directly across Schenley Drive, enter side
door) |
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| AFTERNOON |
VENUE: Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall |
| 1:30-3:30pm |
PANEL: ART AND THE WORLD NOW
Moderator: BARBARA McCLOSKEY, University of Pittsburgh
MONICA AMOR, Maryland Art Institute
Notes on the Contingency of
Modernity and the Persistence of Canons
JAMES MEYER, Emory University
The Return of the Sixties in
Contemporary Art and Criticism
DARBY ENGLISH, University of Chicago
The Trouble with "Black
Abstraction"
CHARITY SCRIBNER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The
Second World and Industrial Modernity
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| 3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee Break and Book Café, The Cloisters,
Frick Fine
Arts Building (directly across Schenley Drive, enter side door) |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS, University of Melbourne
Spacial
Aesthetics and Re-Thinking the Contemporary |
| 5:00-6:30pm |
PLENARY
Moderator: TERRY SMITH
Panelists: FREDRIC
JAMESON, ROSALIND KRAUSS, GEETA KAPUR,
ROBERT STORR, BORIS GROYS, BRUNO
LATOUR |
| 6:30-6:45pm |
Official Closing
Professor N. John Cooper, Dean, School
of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
| 7:00-8:30pm |
Farewell Drinks, Scaife Foyer, Carnegie Museum of Art |
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