Day 1: On cultural memory
Time Venue Topic & Speaker
10 – 11 am Townhouse Factory Space Registration.
11 – 11: 20 am Rawabet Theater Opening remarks by William Wells &
Laura Carderera. Overview of symposium
program and objectives.
11:20 – 12:10 pm Rawabet Theater Keynote presentation by Susan Meiselas,
From the Field to the Archive.
12:10 – 1:20 pm Rawabet Theater Presentation of different regional historio-
graphic endeavors in the Middle East
and beyond:
- Kristine Khouri: 'The History of Arab
Modernities in the Visual Arts Study Group':
The Beginning.
- Miguel López: South-South Intersections:
Southern Conceptualisms Network and the
Political Possibilities of Local Histories.
1:20 – 3 pm Townhouse Factory Space Lunch.
3 – 4:15 pm Rawabet Theater Negar Azimi and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh,
Arab Image Foundation.
4:15- 4:45 pm Rawabet Theater Coffee Break.
4:45–5:30 pm Rawabet Theater Artist Talk: Adam Broomberg and
Oliver Chanarin.
5:30-6 pm Rawabet Theater Negar Azimi, Bidoun Library Project.
Day 2: Rethinking the archive
Time Venue Topic & Speaker
10 – 11:30 am Rawabet Theater Activating the Archive: Claire Hsu,
Asia Art Archive and Farah Wardani,
Indonesian Visual Art Archive.
11:30 – 12:00 Rawabet Theater Coffee break
12:00 – 12:45 pm Rawabet Theater Barnaby Drabble: The Archive as a
Performance of Knowledge. Curating
Degree Zero Archive 2003-2008.
12:45 – 1:30 pm Rawabet Theater Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti Archive.
1:30 – 2:30 pm Townhouse Factory Space Lunch.
2:30 – 3:15 pm Rawabet Theater Heba Farid, Center for Documenta-
tion of Cultural and Natural Heritage
(CultNat).
3:15 – 3:45 pm Rawabet Theater Coffee break.
3:45 – 4:30 pm Rawabet Theater Hussein Omar and Lucie Ryzova:
Remembering Downtown:
Making Memory History.
4:30 – 5:15 pm Rawabet Theater Artist Talk: Celine Condorelli,
Il n'y a Plus Rien ('There is Nothing Left') .
5:15 – 6:45 pm Rawabet Theater Moderated Discussion, Hegemony
and the Archive.
Day 3: Processing the Archive. Towards a collaborative model
of knowledge production?
Time Venue Topic & Speaker
10 – 10:50 am Rawabet Theater Keynote presentation by Beatrice von
Bismarck: The Archive in Transformation.
10:50 – 11:50 am Rawabet Theater PAD.MA.
11:50 – 12:15 pm Rawabet Theater Coffee break.
12:15 – 1 pm Rawabet Theater Sean Dockray:
'AAAARG.ORG DOES NOT EXIST'.
1 – 2:30 pm Townhouse Factory Space Lunch.
2:30 – 3:30 pm Rawabet Theater Jesús Carrillo, the "Universal Archive"
and Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia.
3:30 – 5 pm Rawabet Theater Moderated Discussion, The Promise of
the Archive
5 – 5:30 pm Rawabet Theater Wrap up and closing of the symposium.
