Change Through Repetition
The IDP MIMESIS cordially invites you to its upcoming 5th annual conference: CHANGE THROUGH REPETITION. The international conference takes place from Thursday, 29 November to Saturday, 1 December at the Center for Advanced Studies LMU (CAS).
Change Through Repetition: Mimesis as a Transformative Principle between Art and Politics
Conference Venue: Center for Advanced Studies LMU (CAS), Seestrasse 13, 80802 Munich
Mimesis is a key concept throughout the history of the arts, including the most recent developments in critical and cultural theory. From imitation of nature through representation of human action to the imagination of future possibilities, conceptions of mimesis often emphasize the dimension of repetition. The conference explores how this aspect of mimesis can also have a transformative capacity, thereby opening up the wider spectrum of art forms in relation to their social and political conditions. The key questions of the conference are: How can works of art effect change through repetition? How does change through repetition take place in artistic or social contexts? Which forms of change can be identified?
Participants among others:
Jamil Khader (Bethlehem), Brigitte Rath (Innsbruck), Kerstin Stakemeier (Nuremberg), Matthias Warstat (Berlin)
For the detailed program please visit:
https://www.mimesis-doc.uni-muenchen.de/conferences/index.html
Special Events:
Thursday, November 29, 7pm: Screening at Filmmuseum München on Peter Watkins’ cinema.
Venue for this event: Filmmuseum München, Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munich
Friday, November 30, 6.15pm: Artist Talk with Yael Ronen and Wiebke Puls: Revolutionizing Representation on/from the Stage?
Saturday, December 1, 1pm: Screening Lecture by Christina Varvia (Forensic Architecture)
More information:
https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/events/conferences/tag_constantinides_et_al/index.html
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Organizational Committee (IDP MIMESIS): Babylonia Constantinides, Simon Gröger, Elisa Leroy, Doris Rebhan, Christian Hartwig Steinau and Sarah Stoll
Program:
THURSDAY, 29.11.2018
12:00-13:00
Conference registration at CAS
13:00-13:30
Tobias Döring (Director of IDP MIMESIS): Welcoming Address
Babylonia Constantinides, Simon Gröger, Elisa Leroy, Doris Rebhan, Christian Hartwig Steinau,
Sarah Stoll (IDP MIMESIS): Introduction
Panel I: Transfer/Transferability (Chair: Johanna Spangenberg, IDP MIMESIS)
13:30-14:30 Keynote address
Matthias Warstat (Berlin): Intervention and Repetition: About the Rhythmical Specifics of
Transformative Theatre
14:30-15:00
Coffee break
15:00-16:10
Johanna Zorn (Munich): Phantasms of Repetition. Preliminaries to practices of mimesis and
variation
Salya Föhr (Leipzig): For utmost fragility: Image descriptions in Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of
Resistance
Panel II: Re-enactment (Chair: Marc Adamczak, IDP MIMESIS)
16:10-16:45 Eva-Kristin Winter (Munich): The Social and Political Aftermath of Reenacting the
Paris Commune of 1871: Peter Watkins' La Commune (Paris 1871) (FR 2000) and Geoff Bowie's
The Universal Clock (CA 2001)
16:45-19:00
Break for dinner & transfer to Filmmuseum München (Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munich)
19:00-21:25 Screening
Babylonia Constantinides (IDP MIMESIS): The Cinema of Peter Watkins: Between Re-enactment
and Pre-enactment (with screening)
FRIDAY, 30.11.2018
10:00-12:00
Simon Gröger (IDP MIMESIS): Remembering Forward: The Theatrical Reenactments of the
International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM)
Steeve Sabatto (Paris): Modeling, Mimetism and Lacunary within the Organization of Vernacular
Construction Expertise for the Design of Typical German Structures (1942-1944): A Focus on the
Integration of History of Art and Architecture for Military Operational Research
Leonie Hunter (Frankfurt): The Failure of Political Comedy
12:00-13:00
Lunch at CAS
Panel III: Pre-enactment (Chair: Franziska Link, IDP MIMESIS)
13:00-14:00 Keynote address
Kerstin Stakemeier (Nuremberg): Repeated Separations: Aesthetic Empirio-Materialisms of
Deproduction
14:00-14:40
Xu Dan Penny (Brussels): Art for the Masses
14:40-15:10
Coffee break
15:10-17:00
Yarden Ben-Zur (Tel Aviv): Ghosts of Utopia: Gustav Landauer's Writing on Shakespeare and the
Dynamic of the Revolution
Sarah Stoll (IDP MIMESIS): In Search for its Reader: On the Anticipation of an Everyday Language
in Modern Hebrew Literature
Doris Rebhan (IDP MIMESIS): Fictional States between Imagination, Imitation and Fake
17:00-18:15
Break with Snacks & Drinks
18:15-20:00 Artist Talk (Chair: Elisa Leroy, IDP MIMESIS)
„Revolutionizing Representation on/from the Stage?“ Discussion with Yael Ronen and Wiebke
Puls
SATURDAY, 01.12.2018
Panel IV: Visibility (Chair: Julia Rössler, Eichstätt)
9:00-10:00 Keynote address
Brigitte Rath (Innsbruck): Un/covering Repetition: Erasure Poetry
10:00-10:35
Bahar Majdzadeh (Paris): Cartography as Possible Support for Representation
10:35-11:30
Coffee break with Snacks
11:30-12:30 Keynote address
Jamil Khader (Bethlehem): Mimesis and Alterity in Transnational Feminist Writings
12:30-13:05
Annika Haas (Berlin): Théo rit: Practising Mimesis and Subversion with Hélène Cixous
13:05-14:15 Screening Lecture (Chair: Babylonia Constantinides, IDP MIMESIS)
Christina Varvia (London): The Critical Art of Forensic Architecture
The Internationl Doctoral Program MIMESIS, based at LMU Munich, is dedicated to innovative doctoral research in the fields of literature and the arts, with special emphasis on historical, theoretical and transdisciplinary persepctives. (The IDP MIMESIS is funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria.)