PROGRAMME

 PROGRAMME
March 27, Tuesday

11:00 – 12:30 The Biennial's Press Conference,
hotel NOVOTEL
Participants: Iara Boubnova, James Morgan, Mikhail Mindlin, Alisa Prudnikova, representatives of the Ural Federal University, the Ministry of Culture of the Ural Region, the city administration of Ekaterinburg.

14:30 – 16:00 From the object to the situation. Activities of Latvian center for contemporary art.
Lecture by Solvita Krese.
The Ural Federal University, 51 Lenina St., room 414.

16:10 – 17:40 The Art of Not Being Governed Like That.
Lecture by Iris Dressler.
The Ural Federal University, 51 Lenina St., room 414.
The lecture will address the activities of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart focusing on its role as local political platform.

18:00 – 19:00 Troubleshooting/FAQ.
Art critic's workshop led by Valentin Dyakonov. NOVOTEL

March 28, Wednesday

14:00 – 19:00 Seminar Session 1. Production, Appropriation, Exhibition.
The Ural Federal University, 51 Lenina St., room 314a.

-- Filipa Ramos, The Regain of the Independent
The paper will consider the autonomous, non-for-profit art spaces, as well as the sidestream initiatives, as key constitutors and solidifiers of processes of identity- and community-making.
-- Iris Dressler, The Art of Not Being Governed Like That
The paper will address the activities of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart whose program revolves around the socio-political implications and relevance of contemporary arts and theory.
-- Solvita Krese, Appropriation of public space. Creative praxis in Riga
The paper will discuss the opportunities, challenges and consequences of artistic appropriation of "off-spaces" using several sites and events in Riga as case studies.

coffee break

-- Kristoffer Gansing, Incidental Art, Accidental Activism. Notes on Uncreative User Cultures
This paper will present cases where the agency of a certain creative or oppositional act is contested; it will interrogate the contradictions of a positive autonomy of art as it is being employed in cultural planning, politics and entrepreneurship.
-- James Morgan, Game Spaces and Communities
This paper will consider game-spaces and other synthetic environments as opportunities to create community, consensus, art and real goods, as a history-less, culture-less, rule-less, and space-less place of collaboration.

March 29, Thursday
All events of the day take place at the Ural Federal University, 51 Lenina St., room 314a.

10:00 – 10:50 coffee time
11:00 – 14:00 Seminar Session 2. The Region, the City and the Ural Industrial Biennial
The session will put the central issues of the seminar in the context of the city of Ekaterinburg. It will analyze its specific socio-cultural situation and address various art practices in their relationship with the city.
Speakers: Josep Acebillo, Valentin Dyakonov, Tamara Galeeva, Sergey Kropotov, Alisa Prudnikova.

14:00 – 15:30 lunch break
15:30 – 16:15 The main project of the 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial: the Concept and the Problem Field.
Lecture by Iara Boubnova

16:15 – 16:30 coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Roundtable. Production and Appropriation. (Non)Exhibition Strategies of Contemporary Art.
Chair: Andrey Shcherbenok
Participants: Josep Acebillo, Iara Boubnova, Iris Dressler, Valentin Dyakonov, Tamara Galeeva, Kristoffer Gansing, Solvita Krese, Sergey Kropotov, James Morgan, Alisa Prudnikova, Filipa Ramos.

March 30, Friday

15:30 – 17:00 Transversal Media Practices.
Lecture by Kristoffer Gansing at the Art.Science.Technology seminar.
The Ural Federal University, 51 Lenina St., room 413a.