Panel discussion with Amra Bakšić Čamo, Danica Dakić, Tom Holert, Doris Krystof, Beate Söntgen (Moderation)

April 22, 2010, 7 p.m.

What it means to live in foreign places, to speak foreign tongues, is a central theme in Danica Dakiæ's work. She deals with migration and integration into a new community, but also with exclusion from society on account of mental or physical disabilities. Roaming between cultures emerges as a movement in which geographical spaces, history, and the present are reconfigured. Discussion focuses here on the ways in which language, storytelling, gestures, pictures, music and theater become media of a tentative but self-assured search for a sense of self that must be articulated under the conditions of being foreign.

Amra Bakšić Čamo (producer, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art/pro.ba)

Danica Dakić (Düsseldorf, Sarajevo), artist. Participation in nume-rous group exhibitions, thereunder Liverpool Biennial (2010), 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010), 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009), documenta 12 (2007); solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2009) and Generali Foundation (2010).

Tom Holert (Vienna/Berlin), art historian and critic. Teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Epistemology and Methodology of Art Pro-duction. Publications on visual culture, pop, war, mobility—most recently Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife (London 2007) and Regieren im Bildraum (Berlin 2008). With Mark Terkessidis he founded the Institute for Studies in Visual Culture.

Doris Krystof (Düsseldorf). Since 2001, curator at K21 Kunst-sammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Various exhibitions and publications in the field of modern and contemporary art with a focus on video/film, questions of staging, and literary and theatrical techniques in the visual arts. Recent exhibitions and publications: Martin Kippenberger (2006); Eija-Liisa Ahtila (2008); Jorge Pardo (2009).

Beate Söntgen (Bochum), professor of Art History at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, before Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. Publications on art of the 19th and 20th century and on art theory, most recently (ed. with Geraldine Spieker-mann) Tränen (Munich 2008). Member of "Exzellenzcluster Kulturelle Poetologie des Auftretens", University of Konstanz, and of "Netzwerk Ornament", University of Basel (eikones).