Conference: February 29 - March 2, 2008
Exhibition: February 29 - May 25, 2008

OUR LITERAL SPEED
DER PERFORMATIVE DISKURS

A Conference at ZKM_Lecture hall and ZKM_Media Theater with an accompanying Exhibition at ZKM | Media Museum, Atrium 8
Opening: Friday, February 29, 6pm at ZKM_Foyer

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→ Exhibition
→ Information auf deutsch
→ www.ourliteralspeed.com

SYMPOSIUM

The conference will be held in English

Friday, February 29

6pm
Opening at the ZKM_Foyer

6:30pm
Jackson Pollock Bar: »Utopia Station 2003«

7:30pm
video screening
Hila Peleg: »A Crime Against Art«, 2007 (based on »The Trial«, Anton Vidokle & Tirdad Zolghadr, unitednationsplazastudios) With an introduction by Hila Peleg

Saturday, March 1

10am
On the 'Gesamtkunstwerk'
Juliet Koss: »Total Utopia«
Anthony Cokes & Andrew Perchuk: »Shrinking Criticism: Reframing 'pause Coda: (Hidden Track)' 2004«
Porter McCray: »MoMA and International Program«, produced by the Museum of American Art
Christopher P. Heuer & Matthew Jesse Jackson: »OUR LITERAL SPEED«

lunch break

1:30pm
Art & Language: »NOT QUITE THE BELACQUA POSE - A Talk in Three Voices«

panel discussion with Art & Language, Juliet Koss, Anthony Cokes, Porter McCray, Christopher P. Heuer and Matthew Jesse Jackson

3pm
Tino Sehgal & Peter Weibel: »A Conversation on the Relationship of 'Art and Economy'«

4pm
Performativity and the Political
Peter Weibel: »Performativity and the Political«
Tania Bruguera & The Weather Underground: »I do not want to see that at my Breakfast Table«
Julia Bryan-Wilson: »Sincerely Yours, Sharon Hayes«
Anton Vidokle: »On 'unitednationsplaza' and 'A Crime Against Art'«
Sharon Hayes: »Sound-Image«

break

8pm
Jackson Pollock Bar: »Art & Language Sings a Song«

9pm
Rainer Ganahl: »Educational Complex«

10pm
video screening
John Bock: »Palms«, 2007
Boris Groys: »The Immortal Bodies«, 2007

Sunday, March 2

10am
Formalism/Historicity/Performance I
Miwon Kwon: »No Title for Now«
Darby English: »For Puzzling Irrelevance«
David Joselit: »On Being a Readymade«
Charles Harrison: »PARTY TIME? - An illustrated talk«

panel discussion with Darby English, Charles Harrison and David Joselit, moderated by Andrew Perchuk

lunch break

2pm
Formalism/Historicity/Performance II
Andrea Fraser: »Video Screening«
WJT Mitchell: »Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib«
Jackson Pollock Bar: »Theses on Feuerbach«
Anne M. Wagner: »Behaving Globally«

panel discussion with WJT Mitchell, Jackson Pollock Bar, Anne M. Wagner, moderated by Matthew Jesse Jackson
with a concluding presentation by Rainer Ganahl

- end approx. 6pm -

»OLSSR - OUR LITERAL SPEED SOUNDTRACK Recordings« by The Size Queens (additional tracks by Glasstown & Roman Evening)

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