Programme


Saturday 29 September

11:00

Quaero

Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine

— two-day research conference supported by Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, NL and City of Maastricht

— gallery space

— book tickets with Anne Vangronsveld

11:00

Welcome by Florian Cramer (moderator)

11:10

Intro

Q-Mania – what is Quaero and what is its agenda?

11:15

Michael Zimmer

Privacy and Quaero’s quest for the perfect search engine: threats and opportunities

12:15

Florian Schneider

The retrieval of the fittest: imaging knowledge and making information visible

12:50

Lunch

13:50

Metahaven

Quaero at the crossroads: the search engine as a public institution & virtual territories, real borders

14:40

Tsila Hassine

Political algorithms: value sensitive design

15:05

Ingmar Weber

15:35

Break

16:30

Respondents: Isabelle Stengers, Maurits de Bruijn, Sabine Niederer, André Nusselder

17:10

Forum part one

Round table with all speakers, respondents and audience moderated by Florian Cramer

18.30 > 

Drinks and dinner


Sunday 30 September

Quaero

Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine

— two-day research conference supported by Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, NL and City of Maastricht

— gallery space

— book tickets with Anne Vangronsveld

10:00

Welcome by Florian Schneider (moderator)

10:10

Intro

The Q-word – the state and its connections

10:15

Bureau d’Études

10:50

Frédéric Martel

11:25

Richard Rogers

Do search engines have politics?

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Florian Cramer

Animals that belong to the emperor: failing universal classification schemes from the renaissance to the semantic web

13:35

Open Search

Open-search: decentrality of vital information infrastructure (a case study)

14:10

Jodi Dean

Blogging as self-Management under communicative capitalism

14:45

Break

15:15

Respondents: Isabelle Stengers, Maurits de Bruijn, Sabine Niederer, André Nusselder

15:55

Forum part two

Round table with all speakers, respondents and audience, moderated by Florian Schneider

17:30

Drinks – end


Wednesday 3 October

15:00

The pensive image

Jan Hein Hoogstad

Kittler and the notion of the image

— lecture

— auditorium

20:00

CLiC

Jacques Lacan, 'The object of psychoanalysis' (1965-1966),

Lesson IX-b

— reading group

— room 204


Thusday 4 October

11:00 – 13:00

Quentin Meillassoux

Facticity and factuality: For a contemporary realism

— lecture

— auditorium

16:00 – 18:00

After 1968

Deleuze, Guattari: 'A thousand plateaus'

— seminar

— room 204


Friday 5 October

11:00 – 13:00

After 1968

Stephan Adolphs, Karakayali Serhat

On the poetics of knowledge

— seminar

— room 204

13:30

Citygraphy

Elisabeth Neudörfl

— lecture

— auditorium


Saturday 6 October

15:00

Sabine Hillen

Kunst en de openbaarheid

— lecture

Nieuw genootschap voor esthetica, universiteit Utrecht, NL


Monday 8 October

10:30

Babak Afrassiabi, Nasrin Tabatabai

Pages

— presentation

— auditorium

14:00 – 16:00

Lisi Raskin

Thought crimes

— lecture

— auditorium


Tuesday 9 October

14:00

Haegue Yang

— lecture

— auditorium


Wednesday 10 October

CLiC

Slave to freedom. On Lars von Trier's 'Manderlay'

— two-day symposium in collaboration with Heyendaal Institute, Nijmegen, NL

15:30

registration

16:00

Emma Bell

17:00

Marc De Kesel

Journey between mirrors: Lars von Trier’s 'Manderlay' as an essay on modern freedom

21:00

Manderlay (2005) by Lars von Trier

— film screening with introduction by Peter Verstraten

— Lumière, Bogaardenstraat 40B, Maastricht, NL


Wednesday 10 October

Tim Stüttgen feat. Margarita Tsomou

Post porn loss: Precarious intellect

— performative lecture

Discurs Festival, Giessen, DE


Thursday 11 October

CLiC

Slave to freedom. On Lars von Trier's 'Manderlay'

— two-day symposium in collaboration with Heyendaal Institute, Nijmegen, NL

11:00

Jan Simons

The redeemer's dilemma: A game theoretical approach to Lars von Trier's films

12:00

Chris Gemerchak

Spectres of the civil undead: On the veil of authority and the disavowal of freedom

13:00

lunch

14:00

Katrien Vuylsteke Vanfleteren

Manderlay: A film version of Brecht’s epic theatre?

15:00

Rok Bencin

Where all notions get split into two... Von Trier's 'Manderlay' and Brecht's 'Der gute Mensch von Sezuan'

16:00

break

16:30

Thomas Brockelman

Spinoza's dream: 'Manderlay', 'Dogville' and capitalism


Thursday 11 October

15:00 – 21:00

Marina Vishmidt

Can art change politics, does politics determine art?

— seminar
— Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL


Friday 12 October

12:00 – 17:00

Marina Vishmidt

Can art change politics, does politics determine art?
— seminar
— Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL


Tuesday 30 October

11:00

Nils Norman

— lecture

— auditorium


Wednesday 7 November

15:00

The pensive image

Dismantling the face

— auditorium

Roland Meyer

Reading the scene of the crime

— lecture

— Instituto de Investigationes Estéticas, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, MX


Monday 12 November

present

Pedro Costa


Tuesday 13 November

present

Pedro Costa


Wednesday 14 November

present

Fareed Armaly


Wednesday 5 December

15:00

The pensive image

The photographic look

— auditorium

Tim Stüttgen

Post porn loss: Notizen zum ausgesetztsein

— lecture

AG Gender Studies, Hamburg, DE


Exhibitions


24 May – late September

Imogen Stidworthy

Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki: Heterotopias

— group exhibition

Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR


4 July – 7 October

Falke Pisano

Overtake. The reinterpretation of modern art

— exhibition

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, IE


5 July – 30 September

Aglaia Konrad

Flash cube

— group exhibition
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR


12 August – 30 September

Ines Lechleitner

Parcours interdit

— group exhibition

— Malkastenpark, Jacobistr.6a, Dusseldorf, DE


19 August – 6 October

Marjolijn Dijkman, Karolin Meunier, Stéphane Querrec

Neue Konzepte

— group exhibition
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE


24 August – 4 November

Hinrich Sachs

Mutamenti visioni. Global cultural and territorial evolutions

— group exhibition

— Castelgrande/Montebello/Sasso Corbaro, Bellinzona, CH


25 August – 7 October

Imogen Stidworthy

Off screen. Spatial soundings & silent musicalities

— group exhibition

— Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL


6 September – 1 December

Sven Augustijnen, Suchan Kinoshita, Aglaia Konrad, Willem Oorebeek

Vanaf nu!..

— group exhibition
LLS387, Brussels, BE


9 September – 28 October

Hinrich Sachs

L'Europe en devenir. Partie 1

— group exhibition

Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, FR


9 September – 30 October

Paul Hendrikse

Small stuff three (meeting Lohaus)

— group exhibition

— Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel, BE


15 September – 20 October

Lieven de Boeck

LetusbeUS

— solo exhibition
— Netwerk centrum voor hedendaagsde kunst, Aalst, BE


5 – 6 October

Marjolijn Dijkman

Kunst en de openbaarheid

— presentation

Nieuw genootschap voor esthetica, Universiteit Utrecht, NL


11 October – 25 November

Agency (Kobe Matthys)

Specimen

— group exhibition
NICC and Bozar, Brussels, BE


Internal activities


Thursday 4 October

10:30

Editorial Board

— room 101

present

Hanneke Grootenboer


Monday 8 October

present

Orla Barry

Aglaia Konrad


Tuesday 9 October

15:00 – 18:00

Haegue Yang – studio visits

present

Orla Barry

Aglaia Konrad


Wednesday 10 October

11:00 – 15:00

Haegue Yang – studio visits

present

Orla Barry

Aglaia Konrad


Thursday 8 November

present

Hanneke Grootenboer


Thursday 15 November

present

Fareed Armaly


Thursday 6 December

present

Hanneke Grootenboer


Friday 14 December

10:30

Editorial Board

— room 101

present

Hanneke Grootenboer

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