Colloque : « Crisis: Art and Decision » (Zurich, 21-22 Mai 2015)

Crisis: Art and Decision (Zurich, 21-22 May 15)

ETH Zurich, CH, May 21 – 22, 2015

Annual conference of the Swiss Association of Art Historians (VKKS | ASHHA)
in cooperation with the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art
(CIHA), the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH
Zurich, and the Institute of Art History, University of Bern

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Room HIL E3

09.00 Welcome and Introduction by Philip Ursprung, Institute for the
History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich; Peter J. Schneemann,
Institute of Art History, University of Bern; Jan Blanc, Département
d’histoire de l’art et de muséologie, Université de Genève

09.15 Critical Epistemology: Art and the “General Crisis of the
Seventeenth Century”
Itay Sapir, Département d’histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à
Montréal (UQAM)

10.00 An American in Hitler’s Bathtub: Lee Miller’s War Engagements
Elisabeth Bronfen, English Department, University of Zurich

10.45 – 11.15 Break

11.15 Knowledge Production as Crisis
Irit Rogoff, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of
London

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 Political Crisis and Artistic Renewal in Brazil during the 1960s
Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto, Instituto de Artes, Universidade Estadual
de Campinas, São Paulo

14.15 The Arts in France during the Revolution of 1789: a Crisis or its
Resolution?
Philippe Bordes, Laboratoire de Recherche historique Rhône-Alpes,
Université Lyon 2, Paris

15.00 The Finally Legalization of Modernism in 2014 China
LaoZhu, Department of Fine Arts, School of Arts, Peking University

15.45 – 17.00 Break

17.00 Reception at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle
Zürich, and Hauser & Wirth
Limmatstrasse 270, Zurich

FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Room HIL E3

09.15 crISIS: Iconoclasm in the Twenty-First Century
Dario Gamboni, Département d’histoire de l’art et de muséologie,
Université de Genève

10.00 – 10.30 Break

10.30 Raoul Ubac and the Photographic Crisis of Combat
Phil Taylor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, New
Jersey

11.15 Surviving Forms, Energy, and Animation: Leonardo and the
“componimento inculto”
Claudia Cieri Via, Dipartimento di Storia dell’arte e Spettacolo,
Sapienza, Università di Roma

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 “Music on Bones” and the Media of Crisis
Xenia Vytuleva, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University, New York

14.15 The Flower and the Apparatus. Figures of Critical Resistance in
Recent Art
Sebastian Egenhofer, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

15.00 – 15.30 Break

15.30 Round Table with Thierry Dufrêne, Institut national d’histoire de
l’art (INHA), Paris; Claudia Mattos, Instituto de Artes, Universidade
Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo; Toni Hildebrandt, Institute of Art
History, University of Bern

16.30 Concluding Remarks by Ulrich Grossmann, President CIHA / Germanisches
Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg

17.30 Aperitif at the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA),
Zollikerstrasse 32, Zurich