[Nettime-nl] WE ARE THE TIME ; conference-festival at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie ; March 12-16

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Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam presents

WE ARE THE TIME
Art Lives in the Age of Global Transition

Conference-festival week
12â16 March 2012

With AA Bronson, Jonathan Dronsfield, Boris Groys, Irit Rogoff, Yael  
Davids, Franco Berardi, Fay Nicolson, Tai Shani among many others

www.wearethetime.info
www.rietveldacademie.nl

Life experience is always generated as the intersection between the  
personal rhythm of oneâs life and the larger societal perspective.  
How do we position ourselves in time? How do we weave the historical  
moment into our life-narratives? From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall  
Street â we are witnessing a worldwide desire for transition, but its  
direction is still open.This momentum belongs to the youngest  
generation of artists who will contribute to it with their work and  
shape it with the way they form fleeting communities. The network  
condition we live in, offers unprecedented possibilities to have  
simultaneous and multiple perspectives on events with social and  
historical significance. This implies a very different mode of  
historicizing, of writing down our memories. It is in this vortex of  
eventfulness we have to find ourselves again.

Monday March 12
WORLD QUESTION CENTER REDUX
In 1969 the artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997) collected a list of  
questions through conversations with 100 artists, scientists,  
philosophers, and other prominent thinkers and practitioners. His  
World Question Center became a critical document of his time. For  
Byars, the perfect thought takes the form of a question. He believed  
that answers and explanations are not the way forward. For the  
conference kick-off the Rietveld Academieâs World Question Center  
Redux will merge an artwork past, with questions from the present for  
the future. Connections are produced live on stage, with sweeping  
interventions by Koen Brams, Jonathan Dronsfield, Adjiedj Bakas, Sam  
de Groot and many others.

Tuesday March 13
THE RESEARCH ON/OF PROTEST
Curator Aneta SzyÅak asks how artists are implicated in the condition  
of the academy. Hiwa K speaks about modifying the academy from within.  
Franco Berardi explains why we have to reinvent autonomy. Irit Rogoff  
explores the role of self-education in global resistance movements.  
Miguel Robles-Duran contributes insider knowledge on spatial  
organization and  circulation of speech in the Occupy Wall Street  
movement. The day ends with an open rehearsal of the Chicago Boys  
While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming - 1970s revival band and  
research group on the neoliberal concept that shaped the reality  
questioned today.

Wednesday March 14
HOW WE BEHAVE
Curator Grant Watson explores Foucaultâs proposition that life can  
resemble a work of art. Couldnât everyoneâs life become a work of  
art?David Dibosa introduces Foucaultâs epistemology. Foucaultâs   
Vanity Fair interview "How We Behave" by If I Canât Dance I Don't  
Want To Be Part of Your Revolution with Snejanka Mihaylova, Adva Zakai  
and Veridiana Zurita. Adrian Rifkin talks about the aesthetics of  
being a Maoist, drawing on aspects of his own biography. AA Bronson  
will discuss Foucaultâs concept folding together professional and  
biographical categories. Yael Davids develops with the audience, ideas  
about listening, recording and speaking.

Thursday March 15
EXTREME MAKEOVER
Curator Jorinde Seijdel asks why radical forms of makeover are  
imagined and practiced so abundantly today. What kind of new âforms  
of lifeâ are produced? And how do these appear with art and artists?  
Miya Yoshida points at the amateur; Anneke Smelik at the ideal of the  
hairless body. Boris Groys expands about the transformation of oneself  
into an image of universality, while Camiel van Winkel considers the  
white cube as the proper structure for a reinvention of the figure of  
the artist. Heath Bunting and his Identity Bureau challenge the idea  
of personhood all together.

Friday March 16
I TOLD YOU SO
Curator Alfredo Cramerotti asks what the relationship between gossip  
and the history books is. Or between a general election and eternity.  
In response Cathy Haynes explores the improbabilities of temporal  
cartography; Tai Shani presents 'registers' of representation and an  
over-identifying actress. Sally OâReilly demonstrates the alien  
nature of historical speeches and Fay Nicolson digs up un-archived  
legacies of art education. The day ends with a final concert of the  
Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming at the  
F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. radio station (in the Rietveld Academie's Glass  
Pavilion).


All Week
SHADOW CABINETS
In between lectures and performances we invite you to the shady places  
of the Rietveld Academie. The shadow is the night during the day. The  
space where alternatives can be nurtured until they are ready to step  
into the light. Here you will find the Pirate Cinema for Historical  
Contextualization, the F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. radio station with daily  
broadcasts from the Rietveld Academie's Glass Pavilion, a Soul Rebel  
Movement poetry-workshop, a The Living Rooms discussion, a 3 hour  
lecture on film title design by Albert Wulffers, a search into the  
Metaphysics of Youth with Aynouk Tan , We Are Neighbors (of the  
Rietveld Academie), âChicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were  
Dreaming, a study group and 70Âs revival bandâ,  a Create Your Legal  
Identity -workshop by Heath Bunting, a World Question Transmission  
Center, and a Magic Mauss Hunt.


Organization
Framework & concept WE ARE THE TIME: GabriÃlle Schleijpen  in  
collaboration with Alena Alexandrova and Aneta Szylak, Grant Watson,  
Jorinde Seijdel, and Alfredo Cramerotti.

Production: Jort van der Laan, Anna Hoetjes (WORLD QUESTION CENTER  
REDUX)

Framework & concept SHADOW CABINETS:  Arnisa Zeqo, Laurie Cluitmans,  
Clare Butcher, Natasha Ginwala, Simon Ferdinando, Renee Ridgway, Taf  
Hassam and their respective student work groups

Production: Joris Lindhout

Communication design: Jakub Straka, Daiva Tubutyte

Location
Rietveld Academie
Fred Roeskestraat 96
1076ED Amsterdam

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