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24/10/2002

International seminar

Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius

The 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art
CENTRE OF ATTRACTION

International seminar
Date: October 25-26, 2002
Location: Contemporary Art Centre, Vokieciu str. 2, Vilnius

This seminar accompanies the 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art Centre of Attraction. It completes the cycle of lectures about centres and theoretically crystallises the topic of the exhibition. Professionals from various disciplines
discuss the notion of centre, its importance and analyse the specificity of the centres of different origin.

Lectures and discussions will be held in English.

Friday, October 25
10.00 - 10.15 Tobias Berger. Introduction Text by Ricardas Baubinas "Centre of Europe among the Centres of Europe"
10.15 - 11.00 David Weber "Black Holes - the Attraction of Singularity"
11.00 - 11.45 Audrone Zukauskaite "Five Reasons to Talk about the Drive for Decentralisation"
11.45 - 12.15 Discussion

12.15 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 14.15 Martina Pachmanova "Peripheral Vision: Centres and Margins of Contemporary Art as Seen through Czech Eyes"
14.15 - 15.00 Dmitrij Bulatov "Contemporary Art & Genomic Culture: Axis of Attraction"
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 16.45 Marius Povilas Saulauskas "On the central link of the freely joined chain"
16.45 - 17.30 Audrius Lelkaitis "News Agency in the Contemporary Society. Problems of Processing"
17.30 - 18.00 Discussion

Saturday, October 26
10.00 - 10.45 Sarunas Nakas "Travel Without a Way, for the Mirror Has No Reflection"
10.45 - 11.30 Lars Saari "Oops, They Did It Again - How To Construct Simplified Histories. Shifting Centres, Rhetorics of the Winners, and Cold War Seen from the Post-September 11th Viewpoint"
11.30 - 12.00 Discussion

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 14.15 Jeffrey Inaba "Sprawl is Almost OK: The San Fernando Valley"
14.15 - 15.00 Peter Zellner "Centers of Dis-traction: Irvine and Novosibirsk"
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 16.45 Jochen Becker "Bignes? Entrepreneurial City Development"
16.45 - 17.30 Anders Härm "Be Drunk, Be Very Very Drunk"
17.30 - 18.00 Discussion



Ricardas Baubinas, Vilnius
President of the Society of Lithuanian Geography, head of the Institute of Geology and Geography, Vilnius

Jochen Becker, Berlin
Critic and curator, co-founder of BüroBert, co-editor of "Copyshop - Kunstpraxis & politische Öffentlichkeit, "geld.beat.synthetik", "Baustop.randstadt", "Metropolen"

Dmitrij Bulatov, Kaliningrad
Lingua-artist, curator of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad

Anders Härm, Tallinn
Art critic and curator, lecturer in Tallinn Art Academy

Jeffrey Inaba, New York
Principal of AMO Inc., a research consulting office based in New York. Lecturer and the Program Coordinator of the urban research program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, lecturer in the Metropolitan Research and
Design Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

Audrius Lelkaitis, Vilnius
Head of the News Department in the Lithuanian National Radio and Television, Vilnius

Sarunas Nakas, Vilnius
Composer, member of the editorial board of the cultural magazine "Kulturos barai"

Martina Pachmanova, Prague
Lecturer in History and Theory of Art and assistant professor at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, an independent curator and art critic

Lars Saari, Turku
Art historian, lecturer at the University of Turku, curator, president of the Finnish AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art)

Marius Povilas Saulauskas, Vilnius
Professor of Philosophy and Sociology, Vilnius University

David Weber, Berlin
Studies in Physics, Philosophy, Literature, Film and Cultural Studies, working on a Ph.D. in Philosophy on Deconstruction and Memory at University of Potsdam and the post-graduate programme "Representation-Rhetoric-Knowledge" at Viadrina-University Frankfurt/Oder

Peter Zellner, New York
Architect, founder of z+, a collaborative design and research based architectural practice. Author and editor of books about contemporary architecture, curator of architectural exhibitions, critic on academic juries and lecturer at numerous universities in USA and other countries

Audrone Zukauskaite, Vilnius
Lecturer of philosophy at Vilnius University, member of Lithuanian Institute for Culture, Philosophy and Arts, the author of the book "Beyond the Signifier Principle: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Critique of Ideology"

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