Death Animations - symposium
Friday 4 March 2016, 10:00-17:30 hrs
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language: English
Entrance: free (lunch: € 7,50 -)*
RSVP: reserveren [at] stroom.nl
* please let us know if you want to join the lunch
With the symposium Death Animations at Stroom Den Haag, the artists Christine Borland and Brody Condon continue their ongoing practice-based research project Circles of Focus. Initiated in 2011, Circles of Focus examines the potential for artistic exploration of the human body after death.
In anticipation of their upcoming exhibition Circles of Focus at Stroom, Borland and Condon will be joined at Death Animations by a selection of experts in anatomy, the history of science, sustainable design, and the philosophy of law. We envisage the symposium as an informal and intimate gathering, which welcomes performative presentation formats including: the reenactment of an 18th Century physics experiment, a demonstration of local clay processing, and an experimental exploration of the donated body featuring a demonstration of dissection, performed via live stream.
The event aims to explore the social and legal status of human remains in the context of a historical moment when the performative construction of knowledge and the making of objects coalesced.
PROGRAM
09.30 hrs: walk-in + coffee/tea
10.00 hrs: welcome (by representatives of Stroom Den Haag and the artists)
10.15 hrs: Circles of Focus, introduction by the artists Christine Borland and Brody Condon
10.45 hrs (via Skype): Dr Quentin A. Fogg (PhD FRCPS, Glasgow)
Circles of Focus collaborative partner and Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at the Centre for Human Anatomy Education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
www.med.monash.edu.au
11.30 hrs: Audience Questions
11.45 hrs: Dr Jonathan Price (UK)
PhD Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
12.30 hrs: Audience Questions
12.45 hrs: Lunch
14.00 hrs: Bart Grob (NL)
Curator for the History of Medicine at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
www.museumboerhaave.nl
14.30 hrs: Tiemen Cocquyt (NL)
Curator of Natural Sciences at Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Demonstrating Willem Jacob 's Gravesande's (1688-1742) most famous experiment.
www.museumboerhaave.nl
14.45 hrs: Audience Questions
15.00 hrs: Break
15.30 hrs: Lonny van Ryswyck (NL)
Director, Atelier NL.
'Think Global, Dig Local'.
www.ateliernl.com
16.00 hrs: Audience Questions
16.15 hrs: Francis McKee + Paul Perry
Francis McKee(UK) is Lecturer and Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art, Director at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Writer and curator.
cca-glasgow.com
Paul Perry (NL). Artist, filmmaker and writer.
17.30 hrs: end
Partner for the symposium Death Animations is Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
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Later this year Christine Borland and Brody Condon will articulate their research results in the upcoming exhibition Circles of Focus at Stroom Den Haag (8 October - 13 November 2016). Made possible in part by the Mondriaan Fund and the city of The Hague.
- Friday 04 Mar '16 10:00-17:30 hrs
- Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free
photo: © Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
