As Hal Foster has noted in a recent questionnaire on the subject\, contemporan eity\, while not a new term\, has at our present moment assumed a relevance as insistent as it is diverse. Encompassing a wide array of concerns inclu ding the ambitions and anxieties of the "new" in historical and neo-avant-g ardes\, the epistemological status of collected objects\, and the ontologic al status of the historian\, contemporaneity lies at the heart of many of t he most pressing questions currently preoccupying the humanities.
The 30th annual University of British Columbia Art History Visual Art\ , and Theory Graduate Symposium provides a unique opportunity to a ddress these questions. Featuring essays by an international panel of gradu ate and post-graduate students from across the humanities\, ambitious insta llations by artists of various media\, and Keynote Lectures by Giov anni Careri (CEHTA\, EHESS) and Judy Radul (SFU)\ , the symposium and exhibition will investigate not only the specific ways in which contemporaneity has been and is being mobilized by scholars\, crit ics\, artists and curators working today\, but also how different notions o f contemporaneity engage our collective pasts and anticipate our shared fut ures.
Symposium: Lillooet Room Irving K. Barber Lear ning Center\, 1961 East Mall\, UBC
Exhibition: AHVA Koerner Library Gallery Room 112\, 1958 Main Mall\, UBC
Fr iday\, February 25th
1:30—1:45 Opening Remarks
Panel I
1:45—2:30
“Ana(Beyond)khronos(Ti
me): Arrested Temporalities in Titian’s Pietà (c.1570 – 76)”
- Ivana Vranic\, University of British Columbia
2:30—3:15
“Drawing at the Hour of Its Shortest Shadow”
- Andrew Witt<
/strong>\, University College London
3:15—3:30 Coffee Break
3: 30—4:45
Keynote Address: “The History of Art as the History of Prophe
cy”
- Giovanni Careri\, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
5:00—7:00
Rece
ption and Exhibition with Artwork by:
Emily Hui\, Heather Pass
more\, Joomi Seo\, Kevin Immanuel\, Vytas Narusevicius\, Jordy Hamilton and Derya Akay
Saturday\, February 26th
Panel II
10:30—11:10
“The Archit
ectural Anachronism of Quebec City”
- Aude Gendreau\,
Turmel\, Laval University
11:10—11:50
“The Living Monument: A
Consideration of the Politics of Indigenous Representation and Historical P
ublic Monuments in Quebec”
- Sarah Wilkinson\, Concor
dia University
11:50—12:05 Coffee Break
12:05—1:05
Keynot
e Artist Address: “Appropriate to the Present”
- Judy Radul\, Simon Fraser University
1:05—2:05 Lunch Break
Panel III
2:05—2:45
“Machine Vision\, Machine Response: What Neu
rology Tell us About Contemporary Photography”
- Karl Fousek\, University of British Columbia
2:45—3:25
“Doubled Sen
se of Resistence: Markortoff Collection of Photographs of Doukhobor Daily L
ife in the 1920s - 1950s”
- Natalia Lebedinskaia\, Co
ncordia University
3:25—3:40 Coffee Break
Panel IV
3:40—4:20
“Restoration without Historicism: The Contemporary Stakes
of Church Reconstruction in Provincial Russia”
- Sonja Leuhrma
nn\, University of British Columbia
4:30—5:00
“Unmoor
ed Time: David Reed and the Contemporary Moment”
- Andy Patton
\, University of Western Ontario