When: 11 et 12 octobre 2018
Where: 11 October: IDHEAP, aula, UNIL-Mouline, 1015 Lausanne; 12 October: Musée de l’Elysée, Avenue de l’Elysée 18, 1006 Lausanne
Please register by 1 October 2018 at bax@sik-isea.ch. Participation is free of charge. The number of seats is limited.
New room (11.10): the symposium will take place at the aula of the Institut de hautes études en administration publique (IDHEAP).
The Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), the Musée de l’Elysée and the University of Bern propose to examine the production of alternative, politically engaged discourses on art and their reception over the past 50 years. This international symposium will focus primarily on specific practices of image-making, whereby performativity, display and materiality are explored as creative motors and epistemological processes.
More broadly, this conference is also the opportunity to discuss the future(s) of art history as a discipline, within the university and museum contexts. The title of our proposal, inspired by Berger’s book From A to X. A Story in Letters (2008), offers a prospective incentive that is non-dogmatic. Far from claiming to be either exhaustive or prescriptive, this symposium is intended as an opportunity to assess the methods and scope of art history.