International Online Symposium for Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy
Intra-Activity:
the Posthuman, Fabulation and Matter
14 – 18 September 2021
The symposium was the reflective launch of Fabulation for Future. Its aim was to offer the conceptual tools for a “critical aesthetic turn” to develop new ways of thinking, narrating, fabulating, speculating, knowing and subject-forming, and to exploit this change of perspective in aesthetic practice. How can we address current ethical and environmental challenges through artistic, filmic and philosophical means, including emerging audiovisual platforms?
During the symposium, more than 30 international masterclass participants at master-, PhD- and post-doc-level were invited to come together and form a fictive International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation. These deputies reported on the state of the Anthropocene, sketched a speculative future in their respective fields or presented philosophical and/or artistic and filmic approaches that addressed the entanglement of the biosphere, ecosphere and technosphere, and between climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. Through their philosophical and/or artistic presentations, they reflected on the role of speculation, figuration and fabulation in film, literature and philosophy in shaping social and political processes.
A range of selected keynote speakers rounded the picture of thought:
Timetable CET
This is a preliminary timetable and may still be subject to change.
Day 1 – 14 September
| 11.45am – 12pm | Opening Session | Welcoming by Christine Reeh-Peters and Fee Altmann |
| 12 – 1pm | Tipping the fictive point. | Keynote by Prudence Gibson |
| 1 – 2pm | Polis, Politics, Police | Keynote by Gustáv Hámos/ Katja Pratschke |
| 3 – 5pm | The Critical Posthumanities | Keynote by Rosi Braidotti |
| 5.30 – 6.30pm | Naked Future | Keynote by Jean-Pierre Bekolo |
Day 2 – 15 September
| 12 – 1pm | Transmedia Storytelling for Future | Keynote by Angelica Böhm |
| 1 – 2pm | Speech to the International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Keynote by Christine Reeh-Peters / Fee Altmann |
| 2.30 – 3.30pm | My Experiments in Thinking the Next Possible World | Keynote by Marie-Eve Levasseur |
| 3.30 – 4.30pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Stacy Lo and Wojciech Olchowski |
| 5 – 7.15pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Suvam Das, Sanja Särman, Belén Cerezo and Gonzalo H. Rodriguez (inkl. 15 min. break) |
Day 3 – 16 September
| 12 – 1pm | Privileging Aboriginal Methodologies in Artistic Research | Keynote by Fabri Blacklock |
| 1 – 2pm | How will we live together? Artistic Research in the Design of City Spaces | Keynote by Stefan Winter |
| 2.30 – 3.30pm | The World’s Continual Breathing Is What We Hear and Call Silence or FEELING WITH THE OTHER | Keynote by Kika Nicolela |
| 4 – 7.30pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Kausik Ghosh, Kristin Johnsen, Florian Goeschke, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Alisi Telengut and Dovilė Aleksaitė (inkl. 2×15 min. break) |
Day 4 – 17 September
| 10.30am – 2.30pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Jenny Brown, Elisabeth Brun, Dörte Weig, Giovanni Sabelli Fioretti, Marie-André Robitaille, Roksana Niewadzisz and Vanessa Graf (inkl. 2×15 min. break) |
| 3 – 4pm | Morphic Figurations | Keynote by Marie-Luise Angerer |
| 4 – 5pm | The Dogs, the City, and the Stars | Keynote by Madhuja Mukherjee |
| 5.30 – 6.30pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Szilvia Ruszev and Paul R Jones |
Day 5 – 18 September
| 10.30am – 1.30pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Bela Usabaev, Raquel Felgueiras, Bianca Baldi, Sanja Anđelković, Dani Landau and Dalia Al Kury (inkl. 2×15 min. break) |
| 3 – 5.15pm | International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation | Reports by Andrea Liu, Anouk Hoogendoorn, Joshua Wagner, and Lisa Walder (inkl. 2x 15 min. break) |
| 5.30 – 6.30pm | ‹Cinema Reinventé› Work in Progress and Closing Session | A Spherical Video Draft by Frank Gessner Closing moderated by Christine Reeh-Peters and Fee Altmann |