Works in Process. Dimensions of Becoming within the Arts

Bochum, 6-7 October 2022
Interdisciplinary Early Career Conference at the University of Bochum, organized by the DFG-research group Dimensions of techne in the Fine Arts – Manifestations / Systems / Narratives
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Since the middle of the 20th century, scholars have observed a mode of “becoming” in non-animate entities: not only in the genesis of technological objects (Simondon 1958), but also within natural and cultural processes (Barad 2005). Such concepts of vitality have been successfully applied to the arts: artifacts and artworks can no longer be studied merely in terms of their materiality and objecthood. They need to be understood as agents (Latour 2005) within a complex system of correlations and thus, as subjected to constant transformation (Ingold 2010).
In the Western world, the (neo-)Platonic theory of ideas and Aristotelian hylomorphism have dominated artistic discourses for centuries. According to these concepts, possible completions of any work of art are – owing to its matter – already ideally presupposed during its formation; they assume a work of art will be completed at a certain point in time. Since the 1960s, the structural openness of art works has been increasingly stressed within the humanities (Eco 1962). Questions of “form” and “finish” have shifted towards the study of the processual nature of artworks and artistic strategies (Parshall 2016). As a result, visible traces of processing, materialization, and post-production (Bushart/Haug 2017, Kunze 2019, Manovich 2001) and intentionally obscured efforts of artistic production (Pousão-Smith 2003) have become central research subjects within art history and other disciplines.
The interdisciplinary conference “Works in Process. Dimensions of Becoming within the Arts”, will build on these themes of becoming within the processual for the arts. Organized by the early career researchers of the DFG-funded research group Dimensions of techne in the Fine Arts – Manifestations / Systems / Narratives, we want to deploy the theoretical approaches of structural vitality and openness to artifacts and artworks – from their creative conception to their (autopoietic) production up until their afterlife – and make them observable as epistemically significant.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, October 6, 2022
UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 1
Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum
9:30h Welcome & Introduction
Jennifer Gerber (German Studies, Bochum) and Maximilian Wick (German Studies, Bochum)
10:00-11:30h PANEL I: COINCIDENCE
moderated by Jennifer Gerber (German Studies, Bochum)
Charlotte Hoffmann (Conservation, Konstanz/Stuttgart)
Chance and Choices – Materials and Painting Process of Foliage in the 17th Century
Dennis Schäfer (German, Princeton)
Goethe’s Open-Ended Manuscripts
11:30-12:00h Coffee Break
12:00-14:15h PANEL II: RECIPROCITY
moderated by Maximilian Wick (German Studies, Bochum)
Theresa Brauer (Art History, Konstanz)
Becoming Landscape. The Facture of Dutch Dunescapes in the 17th Century
Alice Iacobone (Philosophy, Genoa)
Plasticity and the Imprint. On Giuseppe Penone’s Processual Sculpture
Mona Schubert (Art History, Cologne/Graz)
The Photographic Gesture after Simondon
14:15-15:00h Lunch Break
15:00h Trip to Museum unter Tage, Bochum
Meeting Point: Station “Schlosspark / Museum unter Tage”
MUSEUM UNTER TAGE, BOCHUM
Schloßpark, Nevelstraße 29D, 44795 Bochum
16:00-18:00h Guided Exhibition Tours
Die Kraft des Staunens. Der neue Materialismus in der Gegenwartskunst/ The Power of Wonder. New Materialism in Contemporary Art
18:30h Keynote
moderated by Christina Lechtermann (German Studies, Bochum) and Wolf-Dietrich Löhr (Art History, Bochum)
Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Art History & Material Culture, Groningen)
Artful Gestures. A Critique of Processual Aesthetics
FRIDAY, October 7, 2022
UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 1
Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum
09:30-11:00h PANEL III: IN/VISIBILITY
moderated by Luisa Feiersinger (Art & Visual History, Berlin)
Carina Dauven (Art History, Bochum)
Becoming of/in Portraiture: Modes of Inscription in Early Photographic Manuals – and the Photographer’s Studio
Karina Pawlow (Art History, Cologne)
Showing the Invisible: Glass / Film Experiments by David Schnuckel
11:00-11:30h Coffee Break
11:30-13:00h PANEL VI: PARTICIPATION
moderated by Bianka-Isabell Scharmann (Art History, Cologne)
Annemarie Kok (Art, Utrecht/Groningen)
Enlightening. The Coming into Being of a Participatory Work by Piotr Kowalski and many others
James M. Levinsohn (Art History, Toronto)
Augmenting the Closet: Stonewall Forever (2019) as Unfinished Digital Monument
13:00-14:00h Lunch Break
14:00-15:30h PANEL V: DIS/CONTINUITY
moderated by Luca Frepoli (Art History, Berlin)
Marjana Krajač (Dance Studies, Ohio)
Six Dances for Prepared Piano: A Continuous Choreographic Process
Julia Alting (Cultural Studies, Groningen)
Disrupting Linear Chronology: Nonlinear Time and Becoming at the Museum
15:30-16:00h Coffee Break
16:00-17:30h PANEL VI: DECAY
moderated by Katharina Lee Chichester (Art History, Bochum)
Ren Ewart (Arts and Culture, Amsterdam) – Entfällt –
The Purpose is to Decay: Deterioration and Temporality in Zoe Leonard’s Strange Fruit (For David)
Nina Samuel (Art and Science History, Berlin)
Conserving Agency: Notes on Decay, Growth and Museum Practices
Despite the unpredictability of pandemic conditions, any and all attempts will be made to have an in-person conference in Bochum. The panels and keynote will additionally be made accessible via Zoom. Should conditions not allow us to proceed in this manner, an online format will be pursued.
Organisational Team:
Theresa Brauer, Jennifer Gerber, Karina Pawlow,
Mona Schubert, Giulia Simonini, Maximilian Wick
Contact: worksinprocess.conference@gmail.com
OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Luisa Feiersinger (21. Juni 2022). Works in Process. Dimensions of Becoming within the Arts. Dimensionen der techne in den Künsten. Abgerufen am 14. Mai 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/uo7q