Saturday, 15th October
09:00-09:15 Linn Burchert: Welcome & Introduction
Image Politics: Diplomacy, Governance and Population
Chair: Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen
09:15-10:00 Felicity D. Scott, “Governing Governments: Habitat’s Audiovisual Program, 1976”
10:00-10:45 Linn Burchert, “Fomenting Fear: The ‘Population Bomb’ in 1990s Summit Art”
10:45-11:30 Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat, “Engaging Art in Diplomatic Venues Addressing Disaster Displacement: A Case for ‘Policy-Oriented Practice’”
Between Legitimation and Critique: Engendering and Challenging Summits
Chair: Marie Rosenkranz
11:45-12:15 Sarah Happersberger, “Alternative Summits? The International Festival of Women Artists, the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, and the Non-Governmental Alternative Organizations Conference, 1980”
12:15-13:00 Jacopo Galimberti, “Migrants, Models and White Overalls. Vanessa Beecroft’s Summit Art and Pablo Echaurren’s Activist Art in and around the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa”
Sites and Affect: (Inter-)National Aesthetics of Summitry
Chair: Linn Burchert
14:15-15:00 Edina Eszenyi, “Hungary and Her Angelic Crown at the Turn of the Millennium”
15:00-15:45 Kirsty Robertson, “Reflections in the Fake Lake: Echoes of a 1976 Art Protest at the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto”
15:45-16:30 Jason Derouin, “The 2016 Special US-ASEAN Leaders Summit at Sunnylands: A Case Study of the Affective Dimensions of Art and Architecture and Their Impact in Diplomatic Summitry”
Between Resistance and Recuperation: Summit Art Activism
Chairs: Barbara Preisig & Kris Decker
17:00-17:45 Gavin Grindon, “Curating with Counterpower: Rethinking Art’s Institutional Leverage”
17:45-18:35 Eleftheria Lekakis & Thomas Dekeyser, “Negotiating Recuperation? Subvertising, Mediation, and the Limits of Visibility”
Sunday, 16th October
Ephemerality, Terminology, Hetero-/Auto-nomy: Challenges to Summit Art Research
Chair: Kirsty Robertson
10:00-10:45 Barbara Preisig & Kris Decker, “Summit Art from Below”
10:45-11:30 Minna Valjakka, “Artistic Engagements for Earth Day in Singapore”
11:30-12:15 Ursula Ströbele, “‘We’ve had many warnings’ – Art between Mediation, Artivism and Eco Pop”
13:00-14:00 Final discussion and reflections on further “Summit Art” research and publication projects