[spectre] Fwd: CONF: Securities of Art (Oldenburg, 5-6 Dec 24)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

From: Lukas Töpfer & Tobias Vogt
Date: Nov 21, 2024
Subject: CONF: Securities of Art (Oldenburg, 5-6 Dec 24)

Haus für Medienkunst, Katharinenstraße 23, 26121 Oldenburg, Dec 5–06, 2024

The workshop "Securities of art. On the history of authentication 
between work, text and context" will examine artistically conceived 
authentications that have become constitutive for the status and value 
of artworks since the early 18th century. The guiding assumption is that 
artists in particular interrogate specific methods of authentication – 
such as signatures and titles, but also certificates, contracts and 
other securities in the broadest sense – and integrate them into the 
structure of their works. Examples range from specially designed 
subscription tickets for the purchase of prints in the early 18th 
century to NFTs and contracts in works of contemporary art. The key 
focus is on exploring an art history of authentication in overarching 
social, economic and legal-historical contexts on the one hand, and on 
the other, delineating the theoretical contours of the relationship 
between the authenticating and the authenticated, between work and 
parergon, and between text, paratext, and context. We will engage in a 
historical and theoretical analysis of the shift from the authentication 
of art to authentication as art.

Conceived and organized by Tobias Vogt and Lukas Töpfer with the support 
of Judith Brachem

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PROGRAM

Thursday, 5.12.
  16:30 – 17:00 | Introduction
17:00 – 18:00 | Tobias Vogt: Subscription and Speculation. William 
Hogarth’s "Boys Peeping at Nature" 18:00 – 19:00 | Ian Haywood: The Art 
of Money: Travels in the Realms of Gold in Georgian Britain

Friday, 6.12.
  09:30 – 10:30 | Ursula Frohne: The Art of Making Money
10:30 – 11:30 | Lukas Töpfer: A Certified and Notarized Original 
Reproduction. Marcel Duchamp and the Excess of Authentication
(short break)
11:45 – 12:45 | Antje Krause-Wahl: Gold Diggers of ’84. Values in 
General Idea’s Securities

(lunch break)

14:30 – 15:30 | Judith Brachem: Four Stitches. Signing without Signature 
in Martin Margiela’s Parerga
15:30 – 16:30 | Felix Vogel: Eva Barto’s Contracts
(short break)
16:45 – 17:45 | Sophie Cras: Committed to Art. Jonas Lund’s "Smart Burn 
Contracts"
17:45 – 18:30 | Conclusion


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Securities of Art (Oldenburg, 5-6 Dec 24). In: ArtHist.net, Nov 
21, 2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/43228>.