Before the Object. Material Histories, Infrastructures, and Ecologies
What happens before matter becomes art – what happens before the object? This workshop at Braunschweig University of Art / Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 21 to 23 November 2024 is dedicated to exploring not artworks, but the “stuff” artworks are made of and the ecological implications of their procurement, processing and transport, aiming at uncovering what Laura Turner Igoe has called “the ecological unconcious of art matter”.
The workshop is organized by Prof. Dr. Ursula Ströbele (HBK Braunschweig) and Kaja Ninnis, M.A. (HU Berlin / Matters of Activity).
Registration: ursula.stroebele@hbk-bs.de and kaja.ninnis@hu-berlin.de
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 21 November 2024, auditorium/Aula
6 pm Welcome Prof. Dr. Ana Dimke (President, HBK Braunschweig)
Keynote Lecture: Oil: Artistic Approaches to a Divisive Material
Monika Wagner (University of Hamburg)
Friday, 22 November 2024, lecture room 01/304
9 am Welcome & Introduction
Ursula Ströbele (HBK Braunschweig), Kaja Ninnis (HU Berlin / Matters of Activity)
PANEL I
9:30 am Animals Products: Material Intermediaries in 1972
Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh)
10:15 am I Am Not Ahead of the Game'. Phyllida Barlow and the Dilemmas of Making
Ann-Sophie Lehmann (University of Groningen)
11:30 am Deep Down and Dirty: Getting Intimate with Peat
Manon Awst (Artist, Wales)
Respondence by Rahel Kesselring (HU Berlin / Matters of Activity)
PANEL II
2:15 pm Greed Can Move Mountains: The Iron Will of Modern Design Culture
Kjetil Fallan (University of Oslo)
3 pm Before and After Gold: Unearthing the Consequences of Extraction
Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art, London)
Respondence by Christian Berger (University of Arts Siegen)
PANEL III
4:30 pm A Material Girl – Eva Hesse’s Solo Exhibition “Chain Polymere” at the Fischbach Gallery in 1968
Annette Tietenberg (HBK Braunschweig)
5:15 pm Afterobjects. Scatological Aesthetics and Recycling Art
Yorick Berta (University of Arts Linz)
Respondence by Hauke Ohls (University of Bonn)
Saturday, 23 November 2024
9 am Open Meeting of the Art | Material | Ecology Working Group & Wrap-up
11 am Ancient Stones and old Buildings – a Geological Walk Through Braunschweig
1:30 pm End of Workshop
Venue:HBK Braunschweig, Aula/auditorium (21.11.) and Seminarraum/lecture room 01/304 (22.11.), Johannes-Selenka-Platz 1, 38118 Braunschweig