EVENTS
Thinking Mobility Two-Ways: Migratorial Aesthetics
12/03/2007 – 14/03/2007
I INTERNATIONAL ENCUENTRO
THINKING MOBILITY TWO-WAYS: ON MIGRATORIAL AESTHETICS
Murcia, March 12th-14 th
Presentation
Migration is an urgent and timely subject for reflection. The aesthetic dimension of the social phenomenon of migration has not been studied in its own right. This dimension moves in two directions: the influence of newcomers to the host countries’ culture, especially the “look” of public space; and the influence of host countries on the subjective relationship, through memory, of migrants to their homeland, whether they have personal memories of that homeland or not; whether this homeland is imaginary or the product of “post-memory.” We think it is time to also acknowledge, even celebrate, the enormous cultural benefits of migration for the so-called host societies, so as to strike a more positive note.
The mixed societies that have emerged as the result of migration have benefited enormously from the arrival of people from many different cultures. Cities have become more heterogeneous ("colorful"), music and cinema have been enormously enriched, and philosophy gratefully uses the potential offered by thinking along the lines of – and through metaphors relating to – migrancy. Meanwhile – and as it more frequently studied – migrants also change, so that their double relationship to host and home country produces an aesthetic in and of itself, which, in turn, further contributes to changes in the host countries and their cultural expressions. This project is about the aesthetics that emerge from this situation, not, or not necessarily or exclusively, about the theme of migration itself.
The goal of the Encuentros is to further reflection on the migratory culture of today, theoretically, historically, and critically, in relation to aesthetic practices as well as the aesthetics of everyday life. “Culture” is used here to indicate moments of confrontation and negotiation between groups of people and, specifically, the visible and invisible consequences of those moment for the lives of people in culturally mixed societies. In the encounter we will attempt to think an aesthetics of geographical mobility beyond the nation-state and its linguistic uniformity. An “intercultural ethics” anchored in a conception of history focused on the relevance of present issues for a re-visioning of the past as much as the relevance of the past for the present. In alignment with intercultural relationality, we could call it inter-temporal. In spite of its clumsiness, such a term helps remind us of the thick mutuality of relation, as opposed to a lean linearity of progress.
Speakers
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (Brown University, U.S.A.), B. O. Firat (Amsterdam University), Fernando Castro Flórez (University of Madrid), Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales, Australia), José Luis Brea (University Carlos III, Madrid), M. Rosello (Amsterdam University), Maaike Bleeker (Utrech University), Miguel A. Hernández-Navarro (CENDEAC), Mieke Bal (Amsterdam University), Néstor García Canclini (University of México City), Paulina Aroch (ASCA, Amsterdam), Pedro A. Cruz Sánchez (University of Murcia), Sonja Neef (Weimar University ), Anna Maria Guasch (University of Barcelona), Sudeep Dasgupta (Amsterdam University), Ranjanna Khanna ( Duke University , USA).
Direction and project
Mieke Bal (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam)
PROGRAMME
- Monday March 12
- 16-19 h. First workshop session: Displacements
- - Mieke Bal, Double Movement
- - Sudeep Dasgupta, The Dialectics of Performative Displacements: Contrapuntal Notes on Migration and Aesthetic
- - Anna Maria Guasch, "Home" as place. The New Nomadism in the work of Danica Dakic
- - Fernando Castro Flórez, Duty Free. (Journey to Nowhere and the so-called Artistic Nomadism
- 20 h. Plenary lecture: Mieke Bal
- Tuesday March 13
- 10 -11h. Visit of the exhibition 2Move: Double Mouvement (Migratorial Aesthetics)
- 11-14 h. Second workshop session: Beyond identity
- - Jill Bennett, Migratory Aesthetics: Art and Politics After Identity
- - Ranjana Khanna, The Rhythm of the Specter in Isaac Julien’s “Fantôme Afrique”
- - José Luis Brea, RAM_city (A Thousand Screens)
- - Miguel A. Hernández-Navarro, Little resistances: contradictions of mobility
- 14-16 h. Lunch
- 16-19 h. Third workshop session: Strategies
- - Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Smoke Bath
- - Néstor García Canclini, Migrants: Working on metaphors.
- - Begüm Ozden Firat, The Seventh Man: Migration, politics and aesthetics
- - M. Rosello, Iliterate Readings: Reading Illiterate
- 20 h. Plenary Lecture: Néstor García Canclini
- Wednesday March 14th
- 10 –13 h. Fourth workshop session: Conceptions and Concepts
- - Paulina Aroch, A Context Not of its Making: Homi Bhabha’s “Democracy De-realized” as a Cultural Object
- - Sonja Neef, Sans papiers. Who’s Europe?
- - Pedro A. Cruz Sánchez, Art as Political Otherness
- - Maaike Bleeker, Limited Visibility
- 13-16 h. Lunch
- 17 h. Second visit to the Exhibition
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More information
Language: English and Spanish. Simultaneous translation
Capacity: 130 people
Registration: Professionals 60 euros. Students 30 euros. Members 15 euros
To register the on-line inscription it is NECESSARY to fill out the application form and to make a bank transaction in CAJAMURCIA bank, account number 2043 0090 32 0200550928, specifying as concept AESTHETICS, and SEND a payment receipt copy to the following address:
- CENDEAC
- Madre Elisea Oliver Molina, s/n.
- Pabellón 5. Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería
- Postal code 30002
- Murcia, Spain