SYMPOSIUM: so far… Arts, Spatialisation and Memory
Sat 19 April 08, 10am-5pm
Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts
University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY

Speakers
Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies, & Public Netbase/ t0,
Vienna, Austria (Keynote)
Dr Anna Fenemore, Pigeon Theatre & University of Leeds
Tim Brennan, Artist & University of Sunderland
Dr John Levack Drever, Sound Artist & Goldsmiths, University of London
Prof. Victor Seidler, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Peg Rawes, Art and Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, UCL
Dr Axel Goodbody, Reader in German Studies, University of Bath
Janek Schaefer, Sound Artist
Dr Daniel Hinchcliffe, Head of Visual Arts, ICIA, University of Bath (Chair)

Space is a central concern for a broad range of contemporary arts
practitioners, and spans many other disciplines. Spatialisation is a useful
term at a point when time/space compression and globalisation, brought about
by new technologies and high speed travel, affect life – including its
cultural output – more than ever. It implies a ‘doing’, a process of
enquiry, orientations in time/space. It carries intimations of temporality,
implying a relationship to memory – pasts and presents.
This event will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students from
visual arts, music, theatre, dance, cultural studies, architecture, cultural
geography and literature.

Keynote Speaker:
KONRAD BECKER
Based in Vienna, Austria, Konrad Becker is an interdisciplinary
communication researcher and Director of the Institute for New Culture
Technologies/ t0, and World-Information.org, a cultural intelligence
provider. Co-founder and chairman of Public Netbase (1994-2006), he has been
active in electronic media as an artist, author, composer curator, producer
and organizer. Since 1979, Konrad has been responsible for electronic
intermedia productions, exhibitions, conferences and event designs for
international festivals and cultural institutions as well as a range of
interventions in public space. 

TIM BRENNAN
Tim Brennan’s new exhibition Great Northern Coalfield has been developed in
response to ICIA’s 2008 theme of Arts, Spatialisation and Memory. Tim
Brennan is an independent practitioner engaged in the notion of discursive
practice through: performance, photography, sculpture, writing, drawing,
curating and teaching. Since 1987, he has produced a corpus of work
including the politics of the gallery and beyond. 

ANNA FENEMORE
Dr Anna Fenemore is a lecturer in Theatre and Performance in the School of
Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds University. Her research
interests include: spectating embodiment; performer bodywork training;
multisensory immersive performance; performance and phenomenology; and
theories of performance space/place. She is Artistic Director Pigeon
Theatre, an all-women, experimental site-specific performance company who
explore the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and the
affect of these on the physical spectating experience. 

JOHN LEVACK DREVER
As well as lecturing at Goldsmiths, Dr John Levack Drever regularly presents
his sound work internationally in a wide range of contexts including concert
hall, radio, internet, cathedral, catwalk, ice cream van, classroom, fine
art gallery, theatre, dance, video and for specific sites. Much of his work
is collaborative working and he has a special interest in human utterance
and environmental sound. 

VICTOR SEIDLER
Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths, Victor Seidler has published
extensively in the areas of social theory, ethics and gender, particularly
in relation to men and masculinities. He is also interested in questions of
ecology, postmodern identities and the relation of the holocaust to
modernity. 

AXEL GOODBODY
Reader in German Studies, at the University of Bath, Dr Axel Goodbody’s
principal area of research is the representation of nature in
twentieth-century German literature, and more broadly, the cultural
construction of ‘nature’ and naturalness. 

PEG RAWES
Dr Peg Rawes teaches History and Theory at The Bartlett, UCL. Philosophical
and critical theory informs her research into the aesthetics of modern art
and architecture. Specialist research areas include Kantian and post-Kantian
aesthetics, 17th century theories of substance and geometry, and theories of
materiality and topology. 

JANEK SCHAEFER
Janek Schaefer is a London based sound artist, known for his innovative
turntablism and for his interest in audio architectural research. He is
concerned with relationships with built environments, such as bringing live
sounds into buildings from outside through hidden microphones. 

Fee: Organisation/Institution rate £75, Individual £45, Concs £25 (incl.
lunch)
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