“Representation through artistic-aesthetic strategies” or activists use artists, artists use activists, companies use art houses, art houses use everyone.

“Representation through artistic-aesthetic strategies” or activists use artists, artists use activists, companies use art houses, art houses use everyone. The all-day symposium invites artists and activists to show videos, give talks and stimulate a lively discussion about the use of aesthetic strategies in areas outside and inside the arts.

Rosanne Altstatt (Director, Edith Russ House for Media Art) will place the symposium in the context of the exhibition. Antek Walczak, member of ‘Bernadette Corporation’ (USA) will show the group’s new video about their participation in the anti-globalization demonstration in Genoa and put it up for discussion. Stephan Dillemuth (artist and author “The Academy and the Corporate Public”, Hamburg) asks whether artistic research could be an alternative form of critique outside of strategies of representation. Marion von Osten (artist, author and research associate at the Institute for Theory of Design and Art, Zurich) will give a lecture with video material on artists and the topic of “Creative Industry”. Deportation Class and Silke Wagner will hold a discussion on the merging of activist and artistic actions against deportation.

Schedule:
11.00 Rosanne Altstatt, introduction
11.30 Marion von Osten “Büro De-Construct” / lecture with video, discussion
12.45 Stephan Dillemuth “The Academy and the Corporate Public” / Lecture, discussion
14.00 Lunch break
15.00 Bernadette Corporation “Get Rid of Yourself” Video screening and commentary by Antek Walczak in English, discussion (Symposium Transcript in English)
17.00 Panel discussion “Aesthetic Strategies in Activism and Activism in Art” with Deportation Class and Silke Wagner, moderated by Rosanne Altstatt