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11/3/2012

We are the time

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Introduction
Mon 12 March

World Question Center Redux

From 15.00 to 18.00 We Are The Time presents the World Question Center Redux. In 1969 the artist James Lee Byars collected a list of questions through conversations with 100 artists, scientists, philosophers, and other prominent thinkers and practitioners.The artist’s World Question Center became a critical document of his time. For Byars, the perfect thought takes the form of a question. He believed that answers and explanations are not the way forward. For the performative conference kick-off the Rietveld Academie’s World Question Center Redux will merge an artwork past, with questions from the present for the future. Connections are produced live on stage. With lecture, presentation and performance by respectively Koen Brams, Maria Hlavajova and Jonathan Dronsfield, an interview with Adjiedj Bakas and sweeping interventions by R. Radhakrishnan , Chto Delat’s Dmitry Vilenski, Ann Demeester, Ben Zegers, Tai Shani, Fay Nicholson, Sam de Groot and the Black Swan Collective. Moderators: Arnisa Zeqo and Laurie Cluitmans.

Conference
15.00 Performance
Do questions require more energy than other sentences?
Koen Brams
Koen Brams will offer an inside in the historical performance that inspired this day. The World Question Center was a live broadcast (realized by Jef Cornelis) of a performance initiated by the American artist James Lee Byars which took place in a studio of the Belgian public broadcasting corporation in Brussels in 1969. During this performance more than twenty personalities – artists (like Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Marcel Broodthaers), scientists and media figures – were given the opportunity to ask what they considered the most relevant question. Questions were posed, no answers given. In his lecture, Brams will elaborate on this exceptional experiment.

16.00
The Metaphysics of Youth
Location: Gym – ( as part of World Question Center Redux)
Adjiedj Bakas, acclaimed economic and social trendwatcher will join us for a consultancy session during the World Question Center Redux, and perhaps offer us an insight to the mechanisms of the business of seeing ones time.
“Within the context of ‘We Are the Time’ and the literature that we have been reading in class we have been reflecting on what it means to be of one’s own time, what it means to be contemporary and to have a glimpse into the now and perhaps into the future. In his text “What is the Contemporary” Agamben compares the ‘now’ with trends and fashion as positioned between the ‘no more’ and the ‘not yet’. What can one see while caught in a distress of time, between youth, memories and history?
On Monday our workgroup has invited Adjiedj Bakas, acclaimed economic and social trendwatcher for a consultancy session during the World Question Center Redux, and perhaps offer us an insight to the mechanisms of the business of seeing ones time.
Workgroup led by: Arnisa Zeqo / Laurie Cluitmans

Conference
16.45 A Column on a Column
Art as Question as Prequel to Art and its Freedoms as Response
Jonathan Dronsfield
A reading from the book The Swerve of Freedom After Spinoza.
For Byars there is no doubt that art can question. His works are figures of the question, of first and last questions, questions provoking knowledge, questions of interrogative philosophy. Yet art is not philosophy. But if art can question then it must be thinking. Thought is not reducible to philosophy. If art can question then it can question philosophy, in the sense that the questions it poses are addressed to philosophy. This is not to say that philosophy is the answer or that philosophy masters art; on the contrary, in philosophy’s responding something about philosophy is drawn by art that philosophy by itself cannot see.

Tuesday March 13:
THE RESEARCH ON/OF PROTEST
Curator Aneta Szyłak asks how artists are implicated in the condition of the academy. Hiwa K speaks about modifying the academy from within. Franco Berardi explains why we have to reinvent autonomy. Irit Rogoff explores the role of self-education in global resistance movements. Miguel Robles-Duran contributes insider knowledge on spatial organization and circulation of speech in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Plus an open rehearsal of the Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming ­– 1970s revival band and research group on the neoliberal concept that shaped the reality questioned today.

Wednesday March 14:
HOW WE BEHAVE
Curator Grant Watson explores Foucault's proposition that life can resemble a work of art. Couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? David Daboso introduces Foucault's epistemology. Foucault's interview "How we behave" from 1983 is restaged in collaboration with If I Can't Dance. Adrian Rifkin talks about the aesthetics of being a Maoist, drawing on aspects of his own biography. AA Bronson will discuss Foucault's concept folding together professional and biographical categories. Yael Davids develops with the audience, ideas about listening, recording and speaking.

Thursday March 31:
EXTREME MAKEOVER
Curator Jorinde Seijdel asks why radical forms of makeover are imagined and practiced so abundantly today. What kind of new 'forms of life' are produced ? And how do these appear with art and artists? Miya Yoshida points at the amateur; Anneke Smelik at the ideal of the hairless body. Boris Groys expands about the transformation of oneself into an image of universality, while Camiel van Winkel considers the white cube as the proper structure for a reinvention of the figure of the artist. Heath Bunting and his Identity Bureau challenge the idea of personhood all together.

Friday March 16:
I TOLD YOU SO
Curator Alfredo Camerotti asks what the relationship between gossip and the history books is. Or between a general election and eternity. In response Cathy Haynes explores the improbabilities of temporal cartography; Tai Shani presents ' registers' of representation and an over-identifying actress. Sally O'Reilly demonstrates the alien nature of historical speeches and Fay Nicholson digs up un-archived legacies of art education.

All Week:
SHADOW CABINETS
In between lectures and performances we invite you to the shady places of the Rietveld Academie. The shadow is the night during the day. The space where alternatives can be nurtured until they are ready to step into the light. Here you will find the Pirate Cinema for Historical Contextualization, the F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. radio station, a Soul Rebel Movement poetry workshop, a The Living Rooms discussion, a 3 hour lecture on film title design by Albert Wulffers, a search into the Metaphysics of Youth, We Are Neighbors (of the Rietveld Academie) and a Magic Mauss hunt.

Framework & concept WE ARE THE TIME: Gabriëlle Schleijpen, together with Alena Alexandrova, Jort van der Laan, Anna Hoetjes, Joris Lindhout.

Communications: Wieneke Mulder 020 5711600 wmulder@grac.nl

Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Frederik Roeskestraat 96 1076 ED Amsterdam
Price: 10 euros
Students outside Rietveld Academie: 5 euros (50% discount with student card)

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