ART AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

SANART 6th International Symposium, Workshops and Art Events
May 1-3, 2002
METU Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara

Programme

Wednesday, May 1st
9.30 -10.00 Opening Ceremony
İstemihan Talay, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Turkey
Ural Akbulut, Rector of the Middle East Technical University
Jale Erzen, Sanart President

First Session: Art and Politics
Chair: Erhan Karaesmen

10.00-1030 'Consciousness or Ideology, Politics or Socialism, the State or the
Individual ?' Hasan Bülent Kahraman
10.30-11.00 ' Art, Turth and Social Responsibility' Tom Rockmore
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.00 'Art in War: Comfort and Weapon' Lev Kreft
12.00-12.30 'Aesthetic Forms and Social Commitment: The Debate of the Italian New Avant-garde' John Picchione
12.30-13.30 Lunch

Second Session: Art in Social Space
Chair: Haruhiko Fujita

13.30-14.00 'Torii as a Form of Art' Barbara Sandrisser
14.00-14.30 'Art in a Corporate Context: Contemporary Art at Boots the Chemist'
Richard Woodfield
14.30-15.00 'Art in the Street' Yıldız Kurtuluş
15.00-15.30 'Principles of Hope' Henk Slager

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

Third Session: Museums and Social Engagement
Chair: Ayşen Savaş

16.00-16.30 'Museums, Galleries and the Visually Impaired' Ann Pearson
16.30-17.00 'Art that Forgets its Name' Nana Zvitiashvili
17.00-17.30 'Contemporary Museums in Information Society' Hale Özkasım
17.30-18.00 'Museums' Role in the Relations of Art with Society' Nevin Çakmakoğlu

18.00 Opening of the Exhibition
Herman Prigann and Vera David : Social Art Projects 1969-1989
METU Library Exhibition Hall
19.00 Opening of the exhibition of 'Abidin Elderoğlu' Paintings -
Culture and Congress Center, Exhibition Hall

Thursday, May 2nd

Fourth Session: Art and Activism
Chair: Selahattin Önür

9.00-9.30 Architecture and Social Engagement: Settlements' Haruhiko Fujita
9.30-10.00 'Revived Identity: Urfa' Şerife Meriç
10.30-11.00 'Action, Reaction, an Architecture of Direct Involvement' Robert Mull

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.00 'Workshop with Children Photographers after the Earthquake' Photography Foundation
12.00-12.30 'Community Art Iniatives: Theoretical Principles and Practices' Elizabeth Cinello

12.30-13.30 Lunch

Fifth Session: Art and Ecology
Chair: Ali Cengizkan

13.30-14.00 In Defense of Nature' Raffaele Milani
14.00-14.30 ' A Work for 36 Trees: In Situ' Handan Börütecene
14.30-15.00 'Noplace-Body-Here' İnci Eviner
15.00-15.30 'L'Art et l'Ecologie comme engagement Social'
'Art and Ecology as Social Engagement' Jacques Leenhardt

15.30 -16.00 Coffee Break

Sixth Session: Art, Performance and Social Space
Chair: Jacques Leenhardt

16.00-16.30 'La Danse d'Art: Force et Forme d'un Désengagement Social'
'Danse of Art: Force and Form of a Social Disengagement'
Catherine Maurey
16.30-17.00 'L'Enseignement d'esthetique et Engagement Social'
Nadia Laggaune
17.00-17.30 'Creative Drama in the Education of the Police' Arif Kıvrak
17.30-18.0 'Art Projects for the Streets' Zerrin Boynudelik
18.00-18.30 Halveti Documentary Film Show

Friday, May 3rd

Seventh Session: Museums and Education
Chair: Richard Woodfield

9.00-9.30 'Museums as Educational Artistic Factors' Ömer Adigüzel
9.30-10.00 'Museums as Centers of Social Interaction' Zehra Erkün
10.00-10.30 'Education in the Museums' Ayşe Çakır İlhan

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

Eight Session: Art for/with Children
Chair: Elizabeth Cinello

11.00-11.30 'Museum's Role in Child Education' Kadriye Tezcan
11.30-12.00 'Cultural Education and Child Musems' İnci San
12.00-12.30 'Toys for Visually Impaired Children' Naz Evyapan
12.30-13.00 'Social Engagement of Art and Aesthetic Education' Jos de Mul

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Nineth Session: Architecture and Politics
Chair: Yıldırım Yavuz

14.00-14.30 'Social Factors of Architecture' Süha Özkan
14.30-15.00 'Realism and Autonomous Architecture, Irreconciliable Differences'
Belgin Turan
15.00-15.30 'Architecture as Social Means: Bruno Taut, the Social Engagement as a Life Choice' Paola Ardizzola
15.30-16.00 'On the Falsification of the City: Venice and the 19th Century
or the Negated Contemporaneity' Lucio Rosato

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

Tenth Session: Presentation of Workshops
Chair: Friedrich Teja Bach

16.30 - 18.00 'Art Bus'
'Perception and Movement'Workshop Herman Prigann and Vera David
''Workshop with students - sculpture installation, Ermano Flacco
'Paper Making' İnci Kansu
'Art Dialogue' Uğurcan Özberki
'Seminar with METU Students on Art and Engagement' Friedrich Teja Bach

19.00 Modern Dance Performance
'Dance with Different Bodies'
Location: METU College Hall

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