Image: A student from an art institute plasters the neck of a “Goddess of Democracy”, a 10-meter-tall statue erected in Tiananmen Square on May 30, 1989.

Taking place at the Art Academy / KMD, DATES (with) Art, Politic and History wants to queer/rock/ shake the years 1989, 1913, and 2011 from a variety of vantage points.

DATES (with) Art, Politic and History wants to be a theory program that questions and challenges the linearity of time as well as the hierarchy and the ways in which knowledgemay be inscribed and circulated. Each date (+/- 4 years) is treated as a point of reference but also as a moment of friction in History when “events” took place in various disciplines.

Programme

Monday 17 January:

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5 pm: Ola Innset
Down with the wall, up with the market
A short talk on the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of communism and the ironic victory of neoliberal capitalism.

6 pm: Elisabeth Nesheim
The emergence of networked and digital art in the late 80s
A brief introduction to the diverse field of digital art as it contextualized the late 80’s and early 90’s, aiming to present some of the important influences, themes and directions that shaped artistic practice of the period.

Tuesday 18 January:

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5 pm Frans Jacobi
1989 Ghost Choir Karaoke
A reflection on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Uprising in Beijing, China. On the use of performative, spatial and communication strategics as tools of protest. On appropriation and cloning as aesthetics of resistance.

6 pm Kaeto Sweeney
Bruce Nauman and Good boy bad boy (1985)
A performative lecture of some sort.

7 pm Joanne Richardson & David Rych
Red Tours (2010)
A docu-fiction about statue parks, museums and theatrical re-enactments of communism. Through the use of different voices and styles, Red Tours seeks to question the meaning of documentary

 
Curated by Ingrid Cogne, Arne Skaug Olsen and Frans Jacobi. 

Upcoming dates are:  
1913: Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th of April
2011: Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st of May