Pratiques du territoire:Occupation - dislocation - mutation IV
Pratiques du territoire
Occupation - dislocation - mutation IV
(conferences)
at Cabot Square
September 20 and 21, 2008 at 2pm
Saturday speakers: Dominic Gagnon and Bart Woodstrup
Sunday speakers: Matthew Biederman and Steve Bates
Pesource people: Matthew Biederman and Constanza Camelo
Dominic Gagnon’s conference is copresented by Centre des arts actuels Skol during the exhibition Attachez vos ceintures pour la plus grande innovation automobile de l’année
Parallel to Matthew Biederman’s DAREDx project occupying Cabot Square, DARE-DARE presents the fourth installment in a series of conferences on the hybrid relationship between art and public space. With Pratiques du territoire: occupation - dislocation - mutation, DARE-DARE seeks to unite artists’ and theorists’ reflections with the season’s billed artists’ experimentations.
Through these conferences, the artist-run centre proposes multidisciplinary approaches to rethinking the way we conceive of and interact with space. The speakers will discuss the results of many experimentations altering notions of performativity as experienced within particular settings, be they social, political or economic.
The four speakers view the relationship between technologies, performativity and public space from multiple angles. On one hand, Matthew Biederman and Steve Bates’ work questions this relationship through radio airwaves and their possibilities as a public sphere. On the other hand, Dominic Gagnon and Bart Woodstrup consider hi- and lo-technologies either to widen the boundaries of action and discussion, or to encourage people’s own empowerment through performance and intervention.
By treating the question of human social and behavioural ties to power from a performative viewpoint, our guests become unusual social actors. They deal with their problematics at the local level, while also facing their global implications, underscoring the fact that they also grasp the “glocal”.
