CONFERENCE 1: ETHICS FOR ARTISTS Friday 23 March 2007, 19:30h CONFERENCE 2: TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS AND LEGALITY
Saturday 24 March 2007, 12:00h
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From
different viewpoints, experts and professionals from various fields
and disciplines (theorists, professors, curators, urbanists, artists...)
will discuss the influence that art in public spaces has on their
social interactions and communication. The aim is to establish
a connection between theoretical reflection and artistic practice
as well as to inspire a discussion and an exchange of ideas and
positions between speakers, artists and the public.
Themed Ethics
for artists. the first conference day is dedicated to the
ethical positioning of the artist regarding the social, political
and economic conditions of his/her activities and the discussion
on the question of whether it is necessary to produce art in certain
places. These topics will be addressed by |
contributions from Vesna
Vukovic (HR), Monica
Ross (UK) and the artists invited to carry out the interventions.
The motto Technologies,
Institutions and Legality of the second conference day tackles
aspects such as direct action, interventions in public space and
the borderline between legality and illegality, the practice of
walking through the city as an aesthetical exercise, and the use
of new technologies and traditional methods of creating communicative
and artistic spaces in an urban area. Mirjam
Struppek (DE), Stéphane
Bauer /Adrian Nabi (DE)) as well as members of the group La
Fiambrera Obrera (the worker’s lunchbox) Javier
Rodrigo Montero y Jordi
Claramonte (ES) will participate in the discussion.
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