Research symposium: Paradoxes of Appearance

Confirmed speakers:

• Professor Renaud Barbaras, Université Paris- 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Professor Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia
• Artist Olafur Eliasson, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Germany and Denmark
• Professor Sanford Kwinter, Rice University, USA
• Professor David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Professor Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany
• Professor David Summers, University of Virginia, USA

When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and created. How do we cope with this withdrawal, with latencies that escape concretization? What are the productive paradoxes associated hereto and how do they influence the processes of making? Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity.

Venue:

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53, Auditorium 6