30 November + 01 December 2018 Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies
Metromod’s first international conference!
Over two full days, four sessions, a short-film screening and a roundtable, we will focus on “arrival cities,” (Doug Saunders, 2011) in the first half of the twentieth century. These were hubs of artistic activities and transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged and concepts developed. Taking cities as a starting point, this conference will explore how urban topographies and artistic landscapes were modified by exiled artists re-establishing their practices in metropolises across the world. International scholars will address such questions as: How did the migration of artists to different urban spaces impact their work and the historiography of art? How did the urban environments in which the artists moved and worked affect professional negotiations as well as cultural and linguistic exchange?
Programme
DAY 1
Friday, 30 November
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI), Munich
09:00 Arrival, Registration & Coffee
09:30 Opening and Introduction
Ulrich Pfisterer (ZI, Munich) Welcome Address
METROMOD Team (LMU, Munich) Introduction
10:00 Partha Mitter (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Migrating ideas: Opening reflections
10:30 Coffee break
Session 1: Mobility, Transfer and Circulation
10:45 Partha Mitter (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Introduction and moderation
11:00 Joseph L. Underwood (Kent State University, Ohio)
Parisian Shadows:
Iba N’Diaye and the Ripple of African Modernisms
11:45 Katarzyna Cytlak (Centro de Estudios de los
Mundos Eslavos y Chinos–Universidad Nacional de San Martín,
Buenos Aires)
The City of Plovdiv as a New Latin American Metropolis.
The Impact of Chilean Exiles in Communist Bulgaria
12:30 Eduard Kögel (Independent scholar, Berlin)
Austrian-Hungarian Architects in Shanghai (1918–1959)
13:15 Lunch break
Session 2: Groups and Networks
14:30 Elvan Zabunyan (Université Rennes 2)
Introduction and moderation
14:45 Laura Bohnenblust (Universität Bern)
Hans Aebi and the Grupo de Artistas Modernos
de la Argentina
15:30 Daniela Kern
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
& Cristiana Tejo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon)
Art and Exile in Rio de Janeiro:
Artistic Networking during the II World War
16:15 Kathryn Milligan (University College Dublin)
Temporary Exile: The White Stag Group in Dublin, 1939–1946
17:00 Coffee break
Kunstverein
18:00 Film, Flight, Gender: Short-film screening and
discussion with M-Power (Berlin)
20:00 Reception
DAY 2
Saturday, 1 December
Internationales Begegnungszentrum (IBZ), Munich
09:45 Coffee
Session 3: Constitutive practices: Interventions in
Speaker’s abstractartistic landscapes
10:15 Matthias Krüger (LMU, Munich)
Introduction and moderation
10:30 Rafael Cardoso
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Exile and the Reinvention of Modernism in Brazil, 1937–1964
11:15 Brian Bockelman (Ripon College, Wisconsin)
Bohemians, Anarchists, and Arrabales:
How Spanish Graphic Artists Reinvented the
Visual Landscape of Buenos Aires, 1880-1920
12:00 Ya’ara Gil-Glazer
(המכללה האקדמית תל-חי -Tel-Hai Academic College)
“Why … it was the Jews who took it into their heads to go
to Harlem and photograph the blacks there?”:
Second-Generation Jewish Migrants
Document Black Urban Activism and Protest
12:45 Lunch break
Session 4: Sites, Spaces and
Urban Representations
14:15 Elana Shapira
(Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna)
Introduction and moderation
14:30 Margarida Brito Alves & Giulia Lamoni
(IHA-FCSH / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon)
The Margin as a Space of Connection:
Mira Schendel, Amélia Toledo and Salette Tavares in Lisbon
15:15 Margit Franz (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
From Dinner Parties to Galleries:
The Langhammer-Leyden-Schlesinger Circle in Bombay
16:00 Frauke V. Josenhans
(Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
“A Gigantic Carousel in Continuous Motion”:
Hedda Sterne and the Lure of New York
16:45 Coffee break
17:30 Displacements, Modern Art and Metropolises
Roundtable with Rafael Cardoso, Partha Mitter,
Elana Shapira and Elvan Zabunyan
Participation is free.
Please register by email:
laura.karp.lugo@kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de