Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik6 pm Welcome speeches6:20 pm
Panel #1: Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview: Closer to the ShoreArtist talk, presented and moderated by Stefanie Hessler and Jelena Tamindžija. With Newell Harry, Alexander Lee, Susanne M. Winterling
This is the third iteration of
Oceans. Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview, previously titled
Tidalectics. Surprisingly, considering its oceanic focus, this is the first time an exhibition takes place on the water’s edge. Stefanie Hessler will introduce the project and discuss, together with Jelena Tamindžija, the process of translation and reconfiguration of the exhibition and what it actually means to
Return to the Sea. From there, the discussion will open up to include artists from the exhibition, whose work engages with cultural and environmental concerns that costal regions face, providing a space for these artists to describe their personal engagement with the oceans both through and outside of their artworks.
19:20
Panel #2: Sensing the OceansPresented and moderated by John Palmesino. With Atif Akin, Kruno Bonačić, Sandro Carniel, Alex Jordan, Rasmus Nielsen, Ivana Palunko
The ocean is a sensorium: it is a space that registers change and it challenges senses. Science and art are transforming the understanding of the ocean, how it is perceived from the multiplicity of life forms that inhabit its dynamic environments, how different cultural forms shape modes of life in the oceans. This panel addresses advances in arts and science of the oceans, and links them with new forms of engagement and preservation of the ocean.
8 pm: Exhibition opening
Friday, July 6, 2018
Fortress and Franciscan Monastery, LopudThis event is by registration only. Please register at info@momad.hr5:45 pmPanel #3: Artistic Intelligence and Collaborative SurvivalPresented and moderated by Markus Reymann
With Florian Schneider, Sissel Tolaas, Susanne M. Winterling
This panel focuses on the role of artistic intelligence—the way artists interact with and use primary experience as a way to communicate their ideas and create scenarios to sense our position in the world. What role could artistic intelligence play in the exploration of the oceans, and how it might be fruitful in tackling some of the pressing issues of our time. The participants will discuss artistic intelligence in order to speculate about which new tools and sensorial capacities might emerge in an arena unbounded of disciplines, without losing their respective authenticity.
6:30 pm
Panel #4: Restoration, Revitalization, and the Future of the 1483 Monastery Complex on LopudA conversation between Žana Baća and Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
Following nearly 20 years of adaptive restoration work, the Franciscan Monastery on Lopud is reopening its doors to the public, thus contributing again to the cultural life of the island. A glimpse into the past 18 years of conservation will lead to a conversation about the site’s future as a sanctuary for artistic work and knowledge production in a neutral space. Together, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and Žana Baća ask: How does a nation redefine its policies through the lens of artistic practice? This conversation will then lead to:
Re-mediating Sites of CultureFrancesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and Žana Baća, in conversation with Sebastian Cichocki, Antonia Majaca, Slaven Tolj, Jelena Tamindžija, and Daniela Zyman
Historic sites such as 1483 Lopud are reserves of culture that ask to be recharged as incubators for the future, rather than be frozen in an ideology of conservation. How are we as cultural producers meant to use these sites and how to remediate their function in a way that would reflect their transformation and mirror their contemporary role in society? Remediation resonates with the words “remedy” and “mediation” and engages us in pioneering practices of cultural experimentation. The panel is invited to workshop and to present solutions for and imagine the transformation of such exceptional sites to inspire and test innovative ideas for the future.
Inaugurated in 2005 and now in its 11
thiteration, the Lopud Seminars have been an agent for the knowledge production that has emanated from TBA21. Following the model of a remote, insular secret society, these heretic gatherings test the possibilities of “situatedness,” the contextual and localized unfolding of knowledge, creativity, and imaginary practices.
8 pm
Jana Winderenbára live concertFortress or Cloister (depening on weather)
8:45 pm Exhibition opening and speeches