Manifesta 9, Coffee Break, Genk (B)

Manifesta 9
Coffee Break
Genk (B)
December 9-10, 2011

Friday December 9, 2011 12:30 Doors open, Registration 13:30 – 14:00 Welcome Coffee 14.00 - 14.10 Introduction by Hedwig Fijen, director of Manifesta 14.10 - 14.30 Introductions on The Contemporary at Service of the Past by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Manifesta 9 Curator 14:30 - 15:00 Jeremy Deller, artist, lives and works in London Screening So Many Ways to Hurt You, the Life and Times of Adrian Street (2010) 15:00 – 15:30 Dawn Ades, Associate Curator Manifesta 9, in conversation with Jeremy Deller 15:30 – 15:45 Short Break 15:45 – 16:00 Sneak Preview: Manifesta Journal #13 16:00 – 16:20 Vincent Meessen artist, lives and works in Brussels On Vita Nova (2009) and the research behind 16:20 – 16:45 Johan de Boose Doctor in Slavic Studies, author, lives and works in Ghent Martyrs (Bloedgetuigen), 2011. A short reading 16:45 – 17:30 Moderated talk with Vincent Meessen and Johan de Boose moderated by Katerina Gregos, Associate Curator of Manifesta 9 17:30 – 18:15 Ibro Hasanovic, Bosnian artist based in Rouen (FR) on The Short Story, on oral narrative traditions. Screening The Short Story (2011) 18:15 – 18:30 Conclusions of the day by Cuauhtémoc Medina 18:30 - 21.00 Buffet Saturday December 10, 2011 10:00 - 10:10 Introduction / Memory fresh up previous day by Cuauhtémoc Medina 10:10 - 11.20 Conversation by Christopher Fraga, PHD candidate in ethnography at NYU based in New York with Cuauhtémoc Medina, Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades on their practices, on Manifesta 9 11:20 - 13:20 Workshops: All Coffee Break participants divide up in three workshops. The artists will develop different strategies in collaboration with the audience in order to approach the theme of the “Contemporary at the Service of the Past”. 1. Phil Collins, Berlin-based British artist 2. Yan Tomaszewski, Paris-based Polish artist 3. Eva Gronbach, German fashion designer, based in Cologne 13:20 - 14:00 Short presentation workshops 14:00 -14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:15 Victor Misiano, Moscow based curator of Manifesta 1, Chairman of the Manifesta Foundation, on Progressive Nostalgia 16:15 - 17:00 Ekaterina Degot, independent art historian, art critic, and curator from Kiev - Curatorial case study: 1st Ural Industrial Biennial: Shockworkers of the Mobile Image 17:00 - 17:45 Moderated conversation by Cuauhtémoc Medina with Victor Misiano and Ekaterina Degot - in search for the tension between fear of nostalgia versus fear of the past 17:45 - 18:00 Final conclusion of Manifesta 9 Coffee Break by Katerina Gregos and Cuauhtémoc Medina 18:00 Goodbye toast, cheers!