[spectre] Re: Merzland program (fwd)

[Zvonimir Bakotin]

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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:29:01 +0100
From: Littoral <littoral at btopenworld.com>
To: Zvonimir Bakotin <zone at desk.nl>
Subject: Re: Merzland program



MERZ-LAND: Kurt Schwitters in England

Tate Britain, Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July, 2004

Programme

Friday 9th July
9 - 10 am    Registration, teas & coffees

10 - 10.30 am
Introduction:  Jasia Reichardt (Kurt Schwitters in England Working Group)
and welcome address by, Dr Stephen Deuchar (Director Tate Britain,
URSONATE Days: Prof. Christopher Fox,  recital of an excerpt from the
Ursonate

10.30 - 12.30 pm
    ³I Build My Time ³ documenting the legacy of Kurt
    Schwitters in England
    Dr John Elderfield   (Chief Curator Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, NY)
    Dr Sarah Wilson  (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
    Prof. Dr Michael Erlhoff  (Dean of the Department of Cultural Sciences,
    UAS Cologne)
    Chair Jasia Reichardt

12.30 - 1.30 pm    Lunch

1.30 - 3.15 pm
    Hanover to Elterwater:  international perspectives
    on the  Merzbau and the work of Kurt Schwitters
    Conference key note papers:
    Prof. Dr Uta Brandes (Professor of Gender & Design, Int. School of
    Design, Köln)
    Dr Elizabeth Burns Gamard  (Associate Dean of Architecture, Tulane U.,
    New Orleans)
    Chair Dr Ian Hunter (LITTORAL/Kurt Schwitters Working Group) )

3.15 - 3.45 pm    Teas & coffees

3.45 - 5.30 pm
    ŒMy spirit must not stop¹ - the artist¹s artist
    international artists discuss the influence of Kurt  Schwitters
    Jack Ox  (artist and Schwitters scholar, New Orleans)
    Susan Hiller  (artist and writer, Berlin)
    Richard Grayson (AHRB Research Fellow, University of Newcastle)
    Chair:  Tim Eastop (Visual Arts Dept., Arts Council England)
    Respondent Mel Gooding

6.00 - 9.30 pm
    VOYAGE TO MERZ-LAND:  to Barnes and beyond
    After conference reception;  evening boat cruise on
    the River Thames to Barnes and back, with dinner on board and a
    MERZkabaret for conference delegates and guests.


Saturday 10th July

9 00 - 9.30am     Registration, tea and coffee

9.30 - 11.00 am
    Writing Schwitters:  Schwitters and politics, recent publications and
    exhibitioncatalogues, and new  insights about the  late works in England
    Dr Isabelle Ewig  (Art Historian/curator, Sorbonne))
    Dr Isabel Schulz (Kurt Schwitters Foundation, Hanover)
    Dr Marc Dachy (Dada Archive - Paris)  (tbc)
    Chair Gwendolen Webster (tbc)

11.00 - 11.30 am    Tea and coffee

11.30 - 1.00 pm    Parallel programme of seminars and round tables.

a)  Ur-architectur:  re-interpreting the Merzbauten
    and  documenting their architectural origins and legacy

    Professor Roger Cardinal  (Prof. Emeritus, University of Kent)
    Zvonimir Bakotin (visual artist, Austria), Professor Karel Dudesek
    (KIAD) Dr Karin Orchard  (Schwitters-Archiv Hanover)
    Chair Fred Brookes,  Respondent Dr Elizabeth Burns Gamard

b)  Curating and archiving Schwitters; the father of Pop Art?
    tracing the influence and legacy of his work in Britainand beyond.

    Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Consultant in Post-Graduate Studies, Laban
    Centre, London: "Laban's and Schwitters'; ³use of chance and the
    mundane²
    Adrian Glew, Tate Archive,
    Chair Barry Martin.  Respondent: Dr John Elderfield

c)  Entartete Kunst; Schwitters in exile:  Wantee/Edith Thomas;
    and  the Isle of Man,London,Scottish and Cumbrian connections
    Cian Quayle, (Dr Klaus Hinrichsen) internment and the Manx period
    Peter Jackson,Chairman, Armitt Museum, Ambleside, Cumbria
    Professor Richard Demarco, Schwittersand the Scottish connections
    Chair Geoff Thomas.  Respondent Dr Uta Brandes

1.00 - 2.00 pm    Lunch

2.00 - 3.45    Parallel programme of seminars and round tables

d)  MERZRADIO: Schwitters and the intermedia tradition; revisiting the
    audio  arts, performance, poetry, writing and typographical projects
    Professor Christopher Fox  (Composer, Huddersfield University)
    Professor Karel Dudesek  (Head of Interactive Media, K I A D)
    Michael Hastings (writer); ŒMan and Boy: Dada¹, an opera about Kurt
    Schwitters by Michael Nyman
    Chair Prof. Dr Michael Erlhoff   Respondent Jack Ox

e)  MERZBarn: proposed  Merzbarn exhibitionand publication project; artists
    on the Merzbarnand  its influence on installation art and architecture
    Zvonimir Bakotin (visual artist, Austria)
    Fred Brookes  (art consultant, Schwitters scholar, Nottingham)
    Cumbrian perspectives on the Merzbarn: recent projects by artists, John
    Darwell, Kevin O¹Connor and Nick May
    Co-Chairs Drs,Sarah Wilson and Isabelle Ewig

f)  MERZ - san frontieres
    (Open forum space, additional presentations to be announced)


3.45 -4.15 pm    Tea and coffee

4.15 - 5.00 pm    Plenary and close