Thursday, July 4, 2019
LMU, Luisenstraße 37, 80333 Munich, Room C106
4:00 pm
Registration (for Speakers only)
4:30 pm
TOBIAS DÖRING (IDP Mimesis)
Welcoming Address
4:45 pm
ANNA BACCANTI, JOHANNA SPANGENBERG (IDP Mimesis)
Un/Masking: On a Mimetic Form
PANEL 1 – REVEALING MASKS (Chair: Joana Mylek)
5:15 pm
AGNES HOFFMANN (University of Basel)
Schminck und Schein: The Art and Power of Unmasking in German Baroque Drama
6:00 pm
CHRISTIANE LEWE (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Surface and Depth: The Revival of Physiognomy in Deep Learning
6:45 pm Break
7:00 pm Keynote Address
BERNHARD SIEGERT (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Switching Perspectives: The Operative Ontology of the Transformation. Masks of the American Northwest Coast
Chair: Sebastian Althoff
Friday, July 5, 2019
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Katharina-von-Bora-Str.10, 80333 Munich, Room 242
9:00 am
ULRICH PFISTERER (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich)
Welcoming Address
9:15 am
Keynote Address
JOYCE CHENG (University of Oregon)
The Surrealists on Style: Toward a Theory of Expression as Masquerade
Chair: Antonia Stichnoth
10:30 am
Coffee Break
PANEL 2 – UN/MASKING POLITICS (Chair: Simon Gröger)
11:00 am
TIM BEASLEY-MURRAY (University College London)
Against Politics as Self-Disclosure and Inclusion: The Anti-Politics of Masking
11:45 am
SARAH HEGENBART (TU Munich)
Redressing History in South Africa: Sethembile Msezane and Mary Sibande and their Masking of the Black Body
12:30 am
VITA PEACOCK (University of Cambridge)
Masks and Initiatory Transformation in Anonymous
1:15 pm
Lunch Break
MARC ADAMCZACK (IDP Mimesis): Guided Tour of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
PANEL 3 – UN/HUMAN (Chair: Babylonia Constantinides)
2:45 pm
CAROLIN BOHN (TU Braunschweig)
Somewhere between Realities: Structures of Un/masking in German 18th-century Aesthetics
3:30 pm
BETHAN HUGHES (University of Leeds)
Corpsing: CGI as Grotesque Realism in the Work of Ed Atkins
4:15 pm
LAURETTE BURGHOLZER (University of Bern)
Neutral Masks, Significant Bodies: Heritage, Exoticism and Depersonalization in Actors’ Training in France in the Early 20th Century
5:00 pm
Coffee Break
5:30 pm
Keynote Address
W. ANTHONY SHEPPARD (Williams College, MA)
Morality and Meaning in Vocal Masking
Chair: Johanna Spangenberg
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10, Room 242
PANEL 4 – MASKING THE (IM)MATERIAL: EMBODIMENT AND ABSTRACTION
(Chair: Bettina Vitzthum)
9:00 am
ELISA LEROY (IDP Mimesis)
‘Such a questionable shape’: Un/masking the Ghost as Actor and Author in Hamlet
9:45 am
ELEONORE ZAPF (University of Innsbruck)
Thoughts Becoming Persons: Fernando Pessoa’s Poetic Carnival
10:30 am
JUDITH KEMP (Deutsches Museum Munich)
‘Wüstes Farbengetändel’: Peter Altenberg’s ‘Masken’ in ‘Cabaret Fledermaus’
11:15 am
Coffee and Snacks
ANJA WÄCHTER (IDP Mimesis): Guided Tour of the Photographs of Stefan Moses: Creative Incognito – Stefan Moses' Artists Behind Masks
12:15 pm
Keynote Address
BARBARA VINKEN (LMU Munich)
Un ballo in maschera
Chair: Anna Baccanti
1:30 pm
SEBASTIAN ALTHOFF, ANTONIA STICHNOTH (IDP Mimesis)
Concluding Remarks