Workshop: Toxic Art Histories (hosted by the Cluster of Excellence ‘Matters of Activity’)

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Date(s) - 08/11/2019 - 09/11/2019
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Cluster of Excellence of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Toxic Art Histories (Berlin, 8-9 Nov 19)

A Workshop organised by the International Research Group ‘Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology‘ hosted by the Cluster of Excellence ‘Matters of Activity’

Registration deadline: Oct 31, 2019

contact: moss@bilderfahrzeuge.org

Friday, 8th November 2019

13:30-13:45
Welcome & Introduction: Andreas Beyer (Basel)

I. National Toxicities

13:45 – 14:45
Opening Lecture: Eric Michaud (Paris)
The Poison of Self-Mimesis: from the Individual to the Group, from Art to its History
Discussion

15:15 – 15:30

Break

15:30-15:50 
Johannes von Müller (London): Repräsentation und Projektion. Bilder politischer Macht in der deutschen Kunstgeschichte
15:50-16:10
Steffen Haug (London): „… wie will man all diesen Blutgeruch aushalten?“ : Aby Warburg zwischen Patriotismus und kritischer Distanz im Ersten Weltkrieg
Respondent: Leena Crasemann (Hamburg) & Discussion
16:45-17:05
Sanja Savkic (Berlin): Art Historical Approaches to Mesoamerica: Obsolete, Toxic, or . . . ?
Respondent: Judith Rottenburg (Berlin)& Discussion

Saturday, 9th November 2019

II. Toxicities in the Expanded Field

10:15-10:35
Mingyuan Hu (Berlin): Misnomers and Chinese Art
Respondent: Felix Jäger (London) & Discussion
11:00-11:20
Alexandra Marraccini (London): The Oozing Baroque in England
Respondent: Anita Hosseini (London) & Discussion
11:45-12:05
Matthew Vollgraff (London): Uncreative Evolution. Diffusionist Anthropology and its Objects
Respondent: Oliver O’Donnell (London) & Discussion

12:30 – 13:30

Break

13:30-14:30
Closing Lecture: Matthew Rampley (Brno)
“But they had the right intentions.” On the point of post-colonial critiques of art history
Discussion

15:00

End