Ampliación – Joseph Beuys Conference Days
- Date
- 16 December 2016
Negra40 · Club del Dibujo · Museo MAR · Goethe-Institut
Present
AMPLIACIÓN — Joseph Beuys Conference Days
December 16 and 17, 2016 MAR Museum – Mar del Plata, Argentina
Introduction
These conference days aim to revisit and update some of the most salient ideas of the German artist Joseph Beuys, 30 years after his physical passing.
The aesthetic affection that his legacy and memory offer inspires us to explore his work from three concurrent perspectives: materiality, procedure, and the symbolic. This constitutive trinity will be reconsidered over two dedicated days, without losing sight of the marks his work and thought may have left inscribed in the present.
The structure we propose calls for four talks built around these themes: a) on honey and bees — the material; b) on heat and its conditions — the procedure; c) on medicine men and other forms of knowledge — the symbolic; and d) on how to think about Beuys in the 21st century — the present. Our aim is to present some of the formal, poetic, and social aspects of his artistic legacy indirectly — that is, by presenting some of his thematic concerns in a stripped-down way, trusting that a genuine tension lives within them from which to rethink his work. A biologist will speak about honey; a physicist, about heat; a medicine man, about relation. These voices, however, will be intercepted by two art specialists who will try to draw out some connection between them and Beuys’s work.
We have chosen the arts scholars and researchers Alicia Romero and Marcelo Giménez, the biologists Matías Maggi and Leonardo De Feudis, the physicist Daniel Martin, and the medicine man Mariano Losi to help us think through and recreate the shifting ethical and aesthetic architecture of Joseph Beuys.
Speakers
Alicia Esther Romero (UNA) Marcelo Giménez (UBA – UNA) Matías Maggi (UNMdP) Leonardo De Feudis (UNMdP) Daniel Alejandro Martin (UNMdP) Mariano Losi (medicine man, Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan)
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Photos: thanks to Horacio Volpato and Mario Gemin.