ART FUTURE / FUTURE SIGNS: The future of contemporary fine art research and education

The Paradox European Fine Art biennial forum Art Future / Future Signs 2019 Riga Pre-final Program:

September 11

15.00 – 16.00 Arrival and Registrations
Grand Opening Ceremony
16.00 – 16.15 Rector prof. Kristaps Zariņš
16.15 – 16.30 Steering Committee
16.30 – 17.00 Vice-Rector prof. Andris Teikmanis
17.00 – 17.30 Maria Hansen “Connections for Life”

Exhibition Opening
17.30 – 18.00 Performance. Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen “Tellings from a dream” (Denmark)
18.10 – 19.30 Performance. The Noemadic Collective (United Kingdom)
16.30 – 19.30 Presentation of the book. Maria Griniuk (Denmark)

September 12

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival and Registrations
09.30 – 10.30 Paula Crabtree & Anthony Dean “Higher Arts Education: The Good, the not so Good and External Quality Assurance” (K2)

Strand C Workshop 1 (Hall 1)
9.30 – 10.30 Katarzyna Zimna (setup) “Seedlings”. Ongoing throughout week.

Strand A Workshop 2 (K2)
11.00 – 12.00 Adam Cooke, Alec Shepley, Paul Jones Workshop: Provocative Pedagogies

Strand B Workshop 3 (Hall 1)
11. 00 – 12.00 Lee Campbell & Fred Meller “Tricksters, hecklers and performative pedagogies”

Strand C Panel 1 (Room 16)
11.00 – 11.30 Conor Mcgrady “Intervention, Subversion and Radical Aesthetic Strategies in a Time of Political Polarisation & Crisis”
11.30 – 12.00 Janis Taurens “The Future of Critical Thinking: Art and Reflection”

Students Projects (Hall 1)
12.30 – 14.30 Performance. Sirkku Ketola “A Body Called Paula” (Finland/ Belgium)

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch / Free time

Strand A Workshop 4 (K2)
14.30 – 15.30 Alberto Dumas “Talking Ghosts: A Collaborative Hoarding Novella”

Strand B Panel 2 (Room 10)
14.00 – 14.30 Oliver Comerford “Get out”
14.30 – 15.00 Ana Vivoda “Collaborative Practices in Art Education in Croatia”
15.00 – 15.30 Katrina Maguire & Alan Keane “Wunderkammer A place where a collection of curiosities and rarities is exhibited”
15.30 – 16.00 Maureen O’Connor “Re-Thinking the Crit”

Strand C Workshop 5 (Hall 1)
14.30 – 15.30 Carron Little (First Performance) “Utopic Dialectics”

Strand A Panel 3 (K 2)
16.00 – 16.30 Suzanne Mooney 
16.30 – 17.00 Michael Manfe “The poetic image in the aesthetic regime”
17.00 – 17.30 Alistair Payne

Strand B Workshop 6 (Room 10)
16.00 – 17.00 Marit Dewhurst “Social Justice Art Education: A Framework for Activist Pedagogy “
17.00 – 18.00 Ellen Hagen

Strand C Workshop 7 (Hall 1)
16.00 – 17.00 Paula Chambers “A Maternal Model for Fine Art Education”
17.30 – 18.30 Jeschkalanger “Are symposia still up to date?”

Dinner (Venue to be confirmed)

September 13

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival and Eight Pieces of Brocade (BaDuanJin) 
09.30 – 10.30 Helena Demakova “The Young Person is the Measure of All the Futures” (K2)

Strand A Panel 4 (K2)
11.00 – 11.30 Ana Garcia Lopez “Artistic Research in Contemporary Art and Heritage: Artist Residencies”
11.30 – 12.00 Ewelina Twardoch – Ras “Medical images of the body. Biometric data in the post-media artistic projects”
12.00 – 12.30 Jessica Capra “What you need to develp your carrer: The Artist & the Others” (Skype)

Strand B Panel 5 (Room 10)
11.00 – 11.30 Carl Rowe ” The Degree Show May Not be Your Best Show”
11.30 – 12.00 Stephanie James “Give Up and Let’s Partner! A tirade of frustrations over how change-averse our art education institutions are becoming”
12.00 – 12.30 Amy Walsh and Barbara Knezevic “Feminist pedagogical strategies in the art school: Navigating the patriarchal institution with feminist new materialist strategies “

Strand C Workshop 8 (Hall 1)
11.00 – 12.00 Performance. Jumoke McDuffie-Thurmond “Recipe For Resurrection”

Students Projects (Hall 1)
12.30 – 14.30 Performance. Sirkku Ketola “A Body Called Paula” (Finland/ Belgium)

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch / Free time

Strand A Panel 6 (K2)
14.00 – 14.30 Henry Rogers 
14.30 – 15.00 Marie Brenneis “Where has all the color gone? “
15.00 – 15.30 Gina Wall “Photographic Futures: teaching the image as diffracted, polytemporal array”

Strand B Workshop 9 (Room 10)
14.30 – 15.30 Martin Newth & Pawel Mendrek “Parallax” 

Strand C Workshop 10 (Hall 1)
14.30 – 15.30 Elena Cologni “On Care, and Finding the Cur(v)e. A Geography of Difference Through Caring”

Strand A Panel 7 (K2)
16.00 – 16.30 Ben Geonghean ”Disruption – Social Media – Art Education”
16.30 – 17.00 Eva Kekou “Back to the future: creating new u-topiaS”
17.00 – 17.30 Michael Minnis

Strand B Panel 8 (Room 10)
16.00 – 16.30 Daniel Spati “Transcultural Collaboration”
16.30 – 17.00 Philip Napier “Studio +”
17.00 – 17.30 Tim Smith 
17.30 – 18.00 Jules Rochielle “MEANINGFUL TRANSFORMATION”

Strand C Panel 9 (Room 16)
15.30 – 16.00 Maret Rossi “Finding Our “Whey”:How the Microbiome is Transcending the Nature/Culture Divide”
16.00 – 16.30 Niga Sayyed “Who is she?”

Strand C Workshop 11 (Hall 1)
17.00 – 17.30 Elena Cologni “On Care, and Finding the Cur(v)e. A Geography of Difference Trough Caring”
17.30 – 18.00 Catherine Dormor “Entanglement: Building Community”

September 14

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival and Eight Pieces of Brocade (BaDuanJin) 

Strand C Workshop 12 (Hall 1)
09.30 – 10.30 Carron Little (Second Performance) “If my body were you what would it say?”

Strand C Panel 10 (K2)
10.30 – 11.30 Marsha Bradfield & Katrine Hjelde “From Resolution to Contradiction: Being Public”

11.30 – 12.30 Paradox Future Forum – Open discussion (K2)

12.30 – 14.00 Closing Ceremony and Lunch

Students Projects (Hall 1)
12.30 – 14.30 Performance. Sirkku Ketola “A Body Called Paula” (Finland/ Belgium)