Symposium (English and German)
December 13 and 14, 2011, 6 to 9 p.m.

The symposium Exchanging Perspectives brings together six speakers whose contributions address the potential implicit in the concept of animism to open up new perspectives for an analysis of the present and possibilities for historiography. Discussing the issue from a variety of angles, they seek to define where we stand: if animism—as an image of what runs counter to dualist rationality—marked crucial front lines of modernity, how have these lines shifted over the course of the twentieth century, and where are they becoming productive today?

 

December 13, 2011, 6 to 9 p.m.

Introduction
Anselm Franke, Curator and Author, Berlin
Space of Wonder (English)
Edwin Carels
The Life of Things (English)
Spyros Papapetros, Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University school of Architecture
Liquid Crystal Life (English)
Esther Leslie, Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck University, London

 

December 14, 2011, 6 to 9 p.m.

Das zweite Leben der Dinge (German)
Diedrich Diederichsen, Professor, Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Conversation between Angela Melitopoulos, Artist, Berlin (German) and Elisabeth von Samsonow, Professor, Philosophical and Historic Anthropology of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Discussion with all participants, moderated by Anselm Franke

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