[spectre] saturday debate

[Geert Lovink]

> From: "David Goldenberg" <dged03 at hotmail.com>
>
> An event organised by the Bureau of research into Post Autonomy
> Saturday March 25th – 10am – 6pm
>  
> An on-line Open public debate into current issues on Art & Autonomy 
> and Art & Post Autonomy.
> This is one of a series of on-going events and debates initiated by 
> the bureau for research into Post Autonomy – please go to the website 
> for a full programme of events.
>  “What is to be done? Is there an alternative to Postmodernism’s 
> ‘anything goes’ that is currently threatening to put art at the mercy 
> of whatever is fashionable? To answer in slogans – I think of further 
> art developments not in terms of postmodern but of post-autonomous 
> for, which art need only give up that moment of autonomy that allows 
> it no final purpose. Because – if art has come to the end of aesthetic 
> autonomy, it seems to me unavoidable that it will look to 
> extra-aesthetic goals and functions in order to survive and evolve.”
>  
> We will use this quote as a point of departure for our debate today
> The debate is to take place in the chat room on the Post Autonomy 
> website – http://www.postautonomy.co.uk/blog (- Please note you will 
> need to apply for a password before hand in order to login -)
> Today’s event will look at general questions looking at issues around 
> Autonomy in art – it is not intended as a formal, academic or 
> specialist debate, but is instead set up to hear your views, thoughts, 
> feelings and opinions on these issues. So if you have anything to say 
> on these issues we would like to hear from you.
> The day is to be structured into approx 30 minute sections per issue – 
> you are welcome to make comments or provide feedback on any of the 
> issues examined during that time.
>  You are then invited to join in a general debate at the end of the day
>   Programme of times and issues
>  Start 10am
>  10 - 10.30– Introduction and general out line of the days event
>  General questions about art and Autonomy
>  10.30 – 11am - Why do people get so up set at the thought that 
> autonomy doesn’t exist in art?
>  11 – 11.30am – Do we need Autonomy in art?
>  11.30 – 12.am – If we do have Autonomy in art how do we recognise it?
>  12 – 12.30am – If we do have Autonomy in art then who owns Autonomy?
>  12.30 – 1pm - Can we understand an art without Autonomy?
>  General questions on art without Autonomy
>  1 – 1.30pm – Do we need to curb or restrict the autonomy of art?
> 1.30 – 2pm - If Autonomy in art no longer exist’s does art disappear?
>  2– 2.30pm – Why are people upset at the prospect of a world without 
> art?
>  2.30 –3pm – So is it possible to conceive of a situation where art 
> disappears?
>  3– 3.30 pm – If autonomy doesn’t exist in art do we need to rethink 
> or reinvent Autonomy?
>  3.30 – 4pm – If art is said to disappear does that actually mean that 
> art has disappeared – or do we arrive at an unexplored situation?
> 4 – 6pm – Open debate