1. No category

Participate!
Cultural Transformation
and the Participatory Agenda
International conference
The University of Southern Denmark and Brandts
October 2-3, 2015
Friday, October 2
09.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.15 Welcome
Dean Simon Torp
Director Anne Scott Sørensen
10.15-11.00 Presentation of the research project CULT (Velux Foundation)
Professor and director Anne Scott Sørensen
Post doc. Hjørdis Brandrup Kortbek
Post doc. Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz
Post doc. Mette Thobo-Carlsen
11.00-12.15
Capitalising Culture, Measuring Tastes, Performing Participation
Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory Tony Bennett
Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, AU.
12.15-13.15 Lunch
13.15-15.15 Panel and Workshops
Panel: Participating researchers - practices, positions and processes
Chair: Associate professor Camilla Møhring Reestorff, Aarhus University.
Opponent: Curator Ingrid Vatne, Museum Vestfyn.
Associate professor Ida Krøgholt, Aarhus University:
“The creative process of partnership development”.
Associate professor Dorthe Refslund Christensen and associate professor
Louise Ejgod Hansen, Aarhus University:
“Exploring untrodden paths. Researchers as partners in a development project”.
Associate professor Carsten Stage, Aarhus University:
“Being assembled: participatory investigations of citizen participation”.
Workshop 1: Participation strategies in digital networks
Facilitator: Professor Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark Associate professor Inka Salovara, University of Aarhus, DK:
”Participation as Assemblage. Affects and politics in digital networks”.
Associate professor Bjarki Valtysson, University of Copenhagen, DK:
“Staging the user. A critique of cultural policies of participation”.
Post.doc Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, University of Copenhagen, DK:
“Structures of participation in mass-digitized cultural-heritage archives”.
Workshop 2: Participation in cultural communication projects
Facilitator: Associate professor, Anne Klara Bom, SDU, DK
Associate professor Søren Friis Møller, Copenhagen Business School, DK:
”On the inreach implications of outreach”.
Public Industrial PhD fellow Ditte Vilstrup Holm, The Danish Agency for Culture, Copenhagen Business School, DK:
“Learning from Istedgade. A participatory urban art project”.
Associate professor Dennis Day, University of Southern Denmark Curator Lise Kapper, Odense City Museums, DK:
“The Paradoxes of Empowerment – Participatory Practices within the Museum Organization”.
15.15-16.00
Coffee / transit to Brandts
16.00-17.15
Thinking the ‘New Normal’ in Post-occupy and Post-banking Crisis Times
Professor Nina Möntmann, Head of The Department of Art Theory and the History of Ideas, The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, S.
17.15-18.00 Exhibition at Brandts
Head of education an public relations: Leslie Anne Schmidt, Brandts, DK
18.00-21.00
Reception at Brandts
Alderman Jane Jegind, City of Odense
Saturday, October 3
09.00-10.15: Part, Partition, Participation. The Imperative of Participation in Machinic Capitalism
Philosopher and professor Gerald Raunig, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and co-editor of transversal.at at the eipcp (European
Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), CH.
10.15-10.45 10.45-12.45 Coffee
Workshops
Workshop 3: Participatory aesth-ethics
Facilitator: Curator Camilla Jalving, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, DK
M.A. in Political and Economic Philosophy Dögg Sigmarsdottir & M.A. in Social Anthropology, Mithra Akhbari, The Feminist Peace Organisation, CH:
“Negotiating Citizenship. An example from Switzerland”.
PhD fellow Irene Capolmi, Aarhus University/Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK:
“’Contemporary aesth-ethics’ The ethical turn in 21st century art institutions”.
Associate professor Birgit Eriksson, University of Aarhus, DK:
“New connectivities. Everyday participation among young (prod)users of art and culture”.
Workshop 4: Cultural participation in the art institution
Facilitator: Curator Amalie Kristine Frederiksen, ‘Råderum’,
Mobile office for contemporary art, DK.
Head of education and public relations Leslie Ann Schmidt, Brandts, educator Mathias Rude, Brandts, coordinator Louise Russo, CAVE, DK:
“From a project culture to long-term partnerships. Connecting Art and Vocational education (CAVE)”.
PhD fellow Sigurd Nielsen, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, N:
”On the same turf? Local museums and global responsibilities”.
MSSc Researcher Jutta Virolainen, Foundation for Cultural Policy Research, FIN: “Cultural participation. A conceptual analysis”.
Post doc: Theis Vallø Madsen, Faaborg Museum, DK
”Reactiving art archives”
12.45-13.45
Lunch
13.45-15.00 This time it’s personal: Proportion and Participation in the age of the multiple
Professor and Director Celia Lury, Centre for Interdisciplinary
Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK.
15.00-15.30
Finale
Registration, lunch and coffee are outside O100 at The University of Southern Denmark.
There will be transportation from The University of Southern Denmark to Brandts.