Making Matters Symposium: Collective Material Practices in Critical Times

This online symposium brings together international representatives of collective material practices, who experiment with their material manifestations to critique and reimagine the world(s) we inhabit. The symposium will take place on 19, 20 and 21 November 2020.

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Programme

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THURSDAY 19 NOV

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

• 12.00-12.30 Introduction by Workgroup Material Practices
• 12.30-13.15 West Den Haag: Akiem Helmling & Baruch Gottlieb, Collecting Collectively + conversation
• 13.15-14.00 Het Nieuwe Instituut: Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Zoöp + conversation
• 14.15-15.00 Eleni Kamma, Making public time: speaking one’s mind on Etherpad + conversation
• 15.00-15.45 Garnet Hertz, Critical Making + conversation

PARALLEL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (limited number of participants)

• 16.00-16.30 Anja Groten, Eleni Kamma, Pia Louwerens, Public Time: Etherpad Session (B1)
• 16.00-17.00 Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, The practice of zoönomy (A)

1-ON-1 CONSULTATIONS (limited number of participants):

• 20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral Business Coaching (I)

FRIDAY 20 NOV

PARALLEL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (limited number of participants)

• 11.00-12.00 Olu Taiwo, Embodying the Return Beat: An introduction to a metaphysical experience of West African Rhythm (H1 part 1/2)
• 10.00-12.00 Aliens in Green, Learning to live in a toxic world: a xenopolitic of your domestic landscape (G part 1/2 - participation in both sessions required)

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

• 12.30-13.15 Jatiwangi art Factory, Tanah and Subjectivity + conversation
• 13.15-14.00 The Otolith Group, INFINITY minus Infinity and ZONE 2 + conversation
• 14.15-15.00 Jeanne van Heeswijk, How we have been preparing for the not-yet + conversation
• 15.00-15.45 Feral Atlas Collective, Introduction to Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene + conversation

PARALLEL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (limited number of participants)

• 16.00-16.30 Anja Groten, Eleni Kamma, Pia Louwerens, Public Time: Etherpad Session II (B2)
• 16.00-16.30 Feral Atlas Collective, Feral Atlas as a Verb (F Part 1/2 - participation in both sessions required)
• 16.00-17.00 The Otolith Group, How to Build an Interscalar Vehicle (D)

1-ON-1 CONSULTATIONS (limited number of participants)

• 20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral Business Coaching (I)
• 20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral Business Coaching (I)

SATURDAY 21 NOV

PARALLEL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (limited number of participants)

• 10.00-12.00 Jatiwangi art Factory, Tanah and Subjectivity (C)
• 10.00-12.00 Jeanne van Heeswijk, How we have been preparing for the not-yet (E)
• 10.00-12.00 Aliens in Green, Learning to live in a toxic world: a xenopolitic of your domestic landscape (G part 2/2 - participation in both sessions required)

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

• 12.30-13.15 Display Distribute, Packaging as Propaganda: On circulation, new psychogeographies, and the discursiveness of boxes + conversation
• 13.15-14.00 a.pass, On Scores and Spaces of Performative Publishing + conversation
• 14.15-15.00 EnsadLab, Weaving Gardens: a case study in cross-investigations between art and anthropology + conversation
• 15.00-15.45 Garnet Hertz, Do It Yourself + conversation

PARALLEL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (limited number of participants)

• 16.00-17.00 Feral Atlas Collective, Feral Atlas as a Verb (F part 2/2 - participation in both sessions required)
• 16.00-18.00 Olu Taiwo, Embodying the Return Beat: An introduction to a metaphysical experience of West African Rhythm (H2 part 2/2 - to deepen your experience)
• 16.00-16.30 Anja Groten, Eleni Kamma, Pia Louwerens, Public Time: Etherpad Session III (B3)

1-ON-1 CONSULTATIONS (limited number of participants)

• 20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral Business Coaching (I)