Nostalgia for the future? Histories and cross heritage of modernities

Nostalgia for the future?

Histories and cross heritage of modernities

International symposium, April 28-29, 2016

•Workshop, Colégio das artes, University of Coimbra, tuesday April 26, 2016

•Exhibition Switch On! Palácio Pombal, from April 27 to April 30, 2016, Lisbonne

•Exhibition Sair Do Livro, CAPC Coimbra, from May 5 to July 23, 2016

Ziad Antar - Villa Saida - 2016

A proposition of the Suspended spaces collective with :

• Faculdade de Belas-Artes, University of Lisbonne

• The University of Coimbra/ Colégio das artes

• University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne

• Centre de Recherches en Arts et Esthétique of the University of Picardie Jules Verne

• Mains d’Œuvres, Saint-Ouen

With the help of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

Grand Auditorium

Faculdade de Belas-Artes of Lisbon

Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas Artes,

1249-058 Lisboa, Portugal.

The use of capital letters allows to describe a comprehensive and paradigmatic concept: Mankind, Nature, Civilization, Modernity. The accounts determined by these abstract entities are generally of domineering positions, those of Empires, Nations, Museums, Sciences. Against or with History, other points of view allow the emergence of stories without capital letters: close to, on the side of diversity, of sensitiveness. These stories describe no system nor program, they don’t mourn their past or future absence.

This articulation between History and histories, the global account and the sideline stories, could help us understand other articulations such as those already experienced by the collective Suspended spaces.

We don’t claim to propose an exhaustive review of the periods and issues related to modernity, but it seems to us essential to revisit certain ongoing questions, un reflected, abandoned, overshadowed, and that could partly explain the current state of the intellectual and artistic debates, on the side of postcolonial studies, spatial turn, visual anthropology or connected history.

As we have been led metaphorically, but also geopolitically to meet spaces, situations and issues that cross and travel through countries apparently far from each other, but who have maintained or maintain intense relations, we propose to make this Portuguese stage a moment of connection between stories and territories, Brazil, Portugal and the Portuguese African ex-colonies.

Program

Thursday avril 28

10h-13h

• Françoise Parfait, Jan Kopp, Daniel Lê, Eric Valette, Jacinto Lageira, du collectif Suspended spaces - For a poetic of critical territories

• Vasco Araújo, artiste - From Exoticism to Racism. The construction of a mirror

• Raquel Schefer, docteure in cinématografic studies, Université Paris 3 - Circles, rotations, revolutions, returns

14h30 -17h

• Jacinto Lageira, Professor in aesthetics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Total, diverso, imaterial

• Ana Tostões, architect and historian of architecture, associate professor at IST-UTL Lisboa

Pause

• Stefanie Baumann, doctor n aesthetics, Université Paris 8 - Projecting Mozambican Liberation. On Catarina Simão film Effects of wording.

Vendredi 29 avril

10h-13h

• Luciana Fina, cinéaste - Mover lugares - Shifting Places - Déplacements

•Delfim Sardo, Professor at the University of Coimbra, Colégio das artes

14h30-17h

•Susana Sousa Dias, Réalisatrice et Professor of cinema at the Faculty of Fine-Arts, University of Lisbon - Estaçao total : The centers of the world.

• Marie-José Mondzain, philosopher, directrice de recherche au CNRS - Vídeo nas aldeias. Transgenerational gestures in the Amazonian cinema.

Exhibitions

• Tuesday April 26, 2016 : Colégio das artes de Coimbra.

Workshop with lthe students of the Master métier de l’exposition of Coimbra. Avec François Bellenger, Jan Kopp, Bertrand Lamarche, Daniel Lê, Marie-José Mondzain, Françoise Parfait, Raquel Schefer, Eric Valette, Christophe Viart.

•Wednesday April 27 – saturday April 30

Suspended spaces – Switch On!

Palácio Pombal

Rua de O Século, 79, 1200 Lisbonne.

opening on wednesday April 27 at 18h – free entrance.

Ziad Antar - Vasco Araújo - François Bellenger - Filip Berte - Marcel Dinahet - Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh - Angela Ferreira – Maïder Fortuné - Lamia Joreige – Valérie Jouve - Yannis Kyriakides - Jan Kopp - Bertrand Lamarche - Lia Lapithi - Daniel Lê - Françoise Parfait - Sophie Ristelhueber - Mira Sanders - Stéphane Thidet - Eric Valette - Christophe Viart - Mehmet Yashin.

The idea of this event is to activate, switch on works, projections, gestures, in this magnificent space that we will both reveal and occupy. The activated pieces will be selected by the collective among those already produced by the Suspended spaces project or specially imagined for the occasion.

• Thursday May 5 – Saturday July 23

Suspended spaces – Sair Do Livro

Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra

Rua Castro Matoso, nº 18, Coimbra

Ziad Antar – Leonor Antunes - Vasco Araújo – Marwa Arsanios - Kader Attia - François Bellenger - Filip Berte - Marcel Dinahet - Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh - Angela Ferreira – Maïder Fortuné - Lamia Joreige -Valérie Jouve - Yannis Kyriakides - Jan Kopp - Bertrand Lamarche - Lia Lapithi - Daniel Lê - Armin Linke - André Parente - Françoise Parfait - Sophie Ristelhueber - Mira Sanders - Stéphane Thidet - Eric Valette - Christophe Viart - Mehmet Yashin.

Exhibition curated by Ann Stouvenel, responsable for the visual arts at Mains d’œuvres (Saint Ouen, France, where the exhibition Sortir du livre was created) in collaboration with the students of the Master careers of the exhibition of Delfim Sardo, Colégio das artes de Coimbra.

Scientific responsables :

Jacinto Lageira, laboratoire Aesthetica, Institut ACTE, UMR-CNRS,

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Françoise Parfait, laboratoire Aesthetica, Institut ACTE, UMR-CNRS,

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Eric Valette, Centre de Recherche

en Arts et Esthétique,

Université de Picardie Jules Verne

Delfim Sardo, University of Coimbra,

Colégio das artes, Portugal

Suzana de Sousa Dias, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Université de Lisbonne, Portugal

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