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Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism?
International Symposium at CEU Budapest 29 February 2008
 


PROGRAMME

Friday 28 February 2008

12.45 Registration

13.00 Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Introduction to Art and Sustainability

13.30 Alan Watt, (CEU)  ‘Sustainability as a Political Ideal’

14.00 Gene Ray, (theorist, Berlin) ‘Exit, Radical Culture and the Re-Composition of Struggle'

14.30 Oliver Ressler (artist, Vienna) '112 Years of the Greenhouse Effect'

15.00 Ivan Ladislav Galeta (artist, Zagreb) ‘NOART EARTH DAY’

15.40 Coffee Break

16.00 Tamara Steger (CEU) ‘Fin de Siecle to Stuckism:  Reclusiveness and Social Activism for Sustainability’

16.30 Adam Sutherland (Grizedale Arts, UK) Title to be confirmed

17.00 Yanina Taneva (Red House Sofia) ‘Does Concrete Blossom? Environmentally-Conscious Art in Present-day Bulgaria as Political Statement’

17.30 Emanuel Danesch (artist, Vienna) ‘Livesafelyineurope’

18.00 Discussion

18.15 End

Additional Events


Thursday 28 February

18.00-19.30 Amanda Dunsmore (artist, Ireland) Billy’s Museum
Venue: Intermedia Department Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts

Friday 29 February

19.00 Opening of REHAB exhibition at Labor Gallery, Kepiró utca 6
Ivan Ladislav Galeta (HR), Csaba Nemes (HU), Amanda Dunsmore (IRL), Rudolf Pacsika (HU), Denis Krašković (HR) and Balázs Beöthy (HU). Curated  by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.

20.00 Screening of Livesafelyineurope by Emanuel Danesch
Venue: Kisterem Gallery, Kepiró utca 5


Symposium Venue

CEU Auditorium
Central European University
Nador utca 9
Budapest 1051

 

 

 

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