Conference: Imagine Earth

  • Date
    Thursday 8. June
  • Time
    Kl. 09:00
  • Place
    The Concert Hall
  • Price
    DKK 225-475

Imagine Earth will gather internationally prominent researchers, artists and young researchers related to the field of environmental humanities. It will take the form of a two-day conference held at the museum 8-9 June.

Two-day conference 8 & 9 June 2023

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The purpose of Imagine Earth is to provide a forum for reflections on the urgent task of developing an aesthetics of the age commonly but also contestedly designated the Anthropocene, focusing in particular on imagining and imaging the earth, its processes and transformations in non-dominant ways. See program below.

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 8 JUNE

08.15-09.10
Registration and coffee

09.10-09.25
Welcome
Poul Erik Tøjner, Director, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Opening remarks
Michael Kjær, University of Copenhagen, and Jacob Lund, Aarhus University

SESSION 1

09.25-09.50
Performance: Tone Bjordam and Marten Scheffer, NO/NL: Trajectories

10.00-10.40
Keynote: Emanuele Coccia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, IT

10.40-11.00
Response: Susan Schuppli and Q/A

11.00-11.30
Coffee Break

11.30-13.00
Presentations, moderator: Mikkel Krause Frantzen
Stefanie Heine, University of Copenhagen, DE
Elisabeth Brun, independent artist, NO
Jacob Lund, Aarhus University, DK

13.00-14.00
Lunch in The Boat House

14.00-14.50
Pre-opening of the Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition by curator Tine Colstrup (voluntary)

SESSION 2

15.00-15.25
Artistic research: Studio ThinkingHand, AUS/DK

15.30-16.10
Keynote: Susan Schuppli, Goldsmiths, University of London, CA

16.10-16.30
Response: Emanuele Coccia and Q/A

16.30-16.50
Coffee Break

16.50-18.20
Presentations, moderator: Henrik Oxvig
Eva la Cour, University of Copenhagen, DK
Christina Varvia, Forensic Architecture, Louisiana and Aarhus University, GR
Michael Kjær, University of Copenhagen, DK

FRIDAY 9 JUNE

08.45-09:25
Registration and coffee

SESSION 3

09.25-09.50
Artistic research: Nanna Debois Buhl, DK

10.00-10.40
Keynote: Frédérique Aït-Touati, Sciences Po, Paris, FR

10.40-11.00
Response: Gabrielle Hecht and Q/A

11.00-11.30
Coffee Break

11.30-13.00
Presentations, moderator: Christina Varvia (TBC)
Daniel Irrgang, University of Copenhagen, DE
Ida Bencke, curator, Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, DK
Henrik Oxvig, Royal Danish Academy, Architecture, Design, Conservation, DK

13.00-14.00
Lunch in The Boat House

SESSION 4

14.00-14.25
Architectural research: Cave_bureau, KE

14.30-15.10
Keynote: Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University, US

15.10-15.30
Response: Frédérique Aït-Touati and Q/A

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

16.00-17.00
Presentations, moderator: Stefanie Heine
Mikkel Krause Frantzen, University of Copenhagen, DK
Line Marie Thorsen, Aarhus University, DK

17.10-17.50
Keynote: T.J. Demos, University of California Santa Cruz, US

17.50-18.10
Q/A

18.10-18.20
Closing remarks: Michael Kjær and Jacob Lund

The outcome of the conference will be published in an anthology. Lectures and performances will be recorded to be publicised on louisiana.dk.

The conference is organized in a collaboration between University of Copenhagen, Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions Aarhus University and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.