ART AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

International Symposium, Workshops and Art Events

May 1-3, 2002

 

Venue: Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey

Programme

 

 

Wednesday, May 1st

 

 

9.30-10.00         Openning Ceremony

 

 

First Session:     Art and Politics

                                    Chair: Erhan Karaesmen

 

10.00-1030              'Consciousness or ideology, politics or socialism, the state or the individual' Hasan

                              Blent Kahraman

10.30-11.00        ' Art, Turth and Social Responsibility' Tom Rockmore Coffee Break

                              Coffee Break

11.30-12.00        Art in War: Comfort and Weapon  Lev Kreft

12.00-12.30        Aesthetic Forms and Social Commitment: The Debate of the Italian New Avant-garde

John Picchione  

12.30-14.00        Lunch

 

 

Second Session:             Art in Social Space

                        Chair: Haruhiko Fujita

 

14.00-14.30            Torii as a Form of Art Barbara Sandrisser

14.30-15.00        Art in a Corporate Context: Contemporary Art at Boots the Chemist

Richard Woodfield

15.00-15.30        Art in the Street  Yldz Kurtuluş

15.30-16.00        Principles of Hope Henk Slager   

 

16.00-16.30            Coffee Break

 

 

Third Session:   Museums and Social Engagement

                        Chair: Ayşen Savaş

 

16.30-17.00          Museums, Galleries and the Visually Impaired Ann Pearson

17.00-17.30          Art that Forgets its Name Nana Zvitiashvili

17.30-18.00        Contemporary Museums in Information Society Hale zkasm

18.00-18.30        Museums Role in the Relations of Art with Society Nevin akmakoğlu

           

18.30-20.00        Openning of the Exhibition

                        by Herman Prigann and Vera David : Social Projects

Location: METU Library Exhibition Hall

 

 

 

Thursday, May 2nd  

 

 

Fourth Session: Art and Activism

                        Chair: Selahattin nr

 

9.00-9.30           Architecture and Social Engagement: Settlements Haruhiko Fujita

9.30-10.00         Revived Identity: Urfa Şerife Meri

10.30-11.00        Action, Reaction, an Architecture of Direct Involvement  Robert Mull

 

11.00-11.30            Coffee Break

 

11.30-12.00        Art and Technology, Strategies of Non-Autonomy Bojana Kunst

12.00-12.30        Community Art Iniatives: Theoretical Principles and Practices Elizabeth Cinello

 

 

12.30-13.30        Lunch

 

 

Fifth Session:    Art and Ecology

                        Chair: Ali Cengizkan

 

13.30-14.00        In Defense of Nature' Raffaele Milani

14.00-14.30        ' A Work for 36 Trees: In Stu'  Handan Brtecene

14.30-15.00        'Noplace-Body-Here' Inci Eviner

15.00-15.30        'L'Art et l'Ecologie comme engagement Social'

 (Art and Ecology as Social Engagement) Jacques Leenhardt

 

15.30 -16.00       Coffee Break

 

 

Sixth Session:    Art Performance and Social Space

                        Chair: Jacques Leenhardt

 

16.00-16.30        La Danse dArt: Force et Forme dun Dsengagement Social

(Danse of Art: Force and Form of a Social Disengagement)

Catherine Maurey (France)

16.30-17.00        LEnseignement d'esthetique et Engagement Social

                              Nadia Laggaune

17.00-17.30        Creative Drama in the Education of the Police Arif Kvrak

17.30-18.00        Art in the Streets Zerrin Boynudelik

 

 

 

Friday, May 3rd

 

 

Seventh Session: Museums and Education

                        Chair: Richard Woodfield

 

9.00-9.30                 Museums as Educational Artistic Factors mer Adgzel

9.30-10.00         Museums as Centers of Social Interaction Zehra Erkn

10.00-10.30        Education in the Museums Ayşe akr İlhan

 

10.30-11.00        Coffee Break

 

Eight Session:   Art for/with Children

                        Chair: Elizabeth Cinello

 

11.00-11.30        Museums Role in Child Education Kadriye Tezcan

11.30-12.00        Cultural Education and Child Musems Inci San

12.00-12.30        Toys for Visually Impaired Children Naz Evyapan

12.30-13.00        Art with Children Jos de Mul

 

 

13.00-14.00        Lunch

 

Nineth Session: Architecture and Politics

                        Chair: Yldrm Yavuz

 

14.00-14.30            Halveti Resettlement Film Presentation

14.30-15.00        Realism and Autonomous Architecture, Irreconciliable Differences

Belgin Turan

15.00-15.30            Architecture as Social Means: Bruno Taut, the Social Engagement as a Life Choice

                         Paola Ardizzola

15.30-16.00        On the Falsification of the City: Venice and the 19th Century

or the Negated Contemporaneity Lucio Rosato

 

16.00-16.30            Coffee Break

 

Tenth Session:   Presentation of Workshops

                        Chair: Friedrich Teja Bach

 

16.30-18.00        Art Bus

The Body and the Environment Herman Prigann and Vera David

                              ''Workshop with students sculpture installation, Ermano Flacco

Earthquake and Children Foundation of Photography

Paper Making İnci Kansu

Art Dialogue Uğurcan zberki

Seminar with METU Students Friedrich Teja Bach

 

Parallel Session: Report on Workshop with Children working in the Streets

Osman Kavala

 

19.00                Modern Dance Performance

                            Dance with Different Bodies

                        Location: METU College Hall

 

 

 

 

Exhibitions

 

Herman Prigann- Vera David    Social Art   1969-1989

                        1 May 6 May, Location: METU Library Exhibition Hall

 

 

Gabriele dOltremare and Paola Ardizzola Trabocchi as Public Art

            Location: Convention and Cultural Center, METU

 

Lucio Rosato, From Residual Territories: Continuing Discontinuities

            Location: Convention and Cultural Center, METU

 

Ermano Flacco, Thats what it was, sensations/scents/loves

Workshop with Students Sculpture Installation

Location: Convention and Cultural Center, METU

 

Photography Foundation  Fotographs of Earthquake taken by children

                        Location: Convention and Cultural Center, METU

 

Video Installation

Andreas Treske, Ercan Sağlam,

Başak Kaptan, Zekiye Sarkartal,

Kutlu Grelli, Erdem Ycel

 

Art Bus Exhibition

                             Tansel Trkdoğan, Mehmet Ylmaz, Ferhat zgr, Turan Aksoy, Seniz Aksoy, Serap

                              Etike, Ayşe akr İlhan, mit Gder, Atilla İlkyaz, Hakk Engin Giderer, Birsen

                              Gltekin

 

 

Workshops:

 

 The Body and the Environment,  Herman Prigann Vera David

METU Sports Building

 

Art Bus, METU Art Department Art Bus to the Peripheries

 

Paper Making, İnci Kansu

METU Arts Department

 

Art Dialogue, Uğurcan zberki

Cultural and Convention Center

 

Seminar with Students, Friedrich Teja Bach and Master's and 4th Year Architectural Students

Discussion of Art and Engagement on the reading of 4 Texts

 

Ermano Flacco

That's What it Was: Sensations/Scents/Loves

Workshop with Students

 

Coordinator of the Symposium and Art Activities:

Jale Erzen

 

Organization Committee:

Cana Bilsel, Ali Cengizkan, Namk Erkal, Jale Erzen, Kymet Giray, Levent Kara, Erhan Karaesmen, Rafiye Karakan, Gven Arif Sargn, Ayşen Savaş, Berrak Seren, İpek Treli, Tansel Trkdoğan, Mehmet Ylmaz, T&T, Ebi Turizm

ve ODT Mimarlk Blm ğrencileri

 

Sponsorlar

 

Mimarlar Derneği 1927         Mondriaan Stichting                                         Fransz Kltr Derneği

VSA Very Special Arts          ODT Mimarlk Fakltesi

Goethe Insttut                        Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi Rektrlk

Boss Turizm                           Atlm Universitesi

Yksel Erimtan                      British Council

And with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture