The Conference On The Conference
The Conference On The Conference
Friday, March 4th, 2011
12:30 pm - Ground Floor Lobby SFU Woodward’s
Registration
1:00 pm - Room 2270
Plenary Session
Commencements. Announcements. Acknowledgments. Itinerary...
1:30 pm - Room 4365
Panel 1/Invocation. Is it possible to proceed after this acknowledgement?
Chair: Michael Turner
Respondent: Donato Mancini
Typefacing: Imploding the Stance
Andreas Kahre
Director
Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art
Conference Food, Conference Clothes
Laura U. Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
0 Minutes
Michael Turner
Writer, Independent Scholar
Vancouver, BC
2:30 pm - Room 2270
Panel 2/conference on the conference on the conference on the conference. [“more multiple apings of self-reflexive problematics.”]
Chair: Lori McGillvray
Respondent: Eric Deis
A Conference on "The Conference on the Conference"?
Nikolai Gauer
MFA Candidate
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
The Report
Henry Daniel
Associate Professor
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
3:30 pm - Room 3420
Panel 3/The Conference: conditioning possibility?
Chair: Christopher Pavsek
Respondent: Nicholas Perrin
Improvising and Professionalizing the Cliché
Ashok Mathur
Canada Research Chair in Cultural & Artistic Inquiry
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, BC
Was That a Musical Performance at the Art Conference?
Chris Anderson
MFA Candidate
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
The Poetics and Politics of the CFP
Olive Mckeon
PHD Student
Culture and Performance
University of California, Los Angeles
4:30 pm - Room 4955
Panel 4/Footnotes
Chair: Steven Hubert
Respondent: Am Johal
Sound Advice: Conference Do's and Don'ts
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
Assistant Professor,
World Literature Program,
Simon Fraser University
The Site-Specific Conference Paper
Stephen Collis
Associate Professor
English Department
Simon Fraser University
The Conference: Feel it, funk it
Olivia Dunbar
Honors
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
2:00 pm - Room 4955 (primary) and 4945
Panel 5/Squatting the “conference as site”.
Chair: John Anderson
Respondent: Reg Johanson
After the Party It's the Hotel Lobby: On the Political Economy of the Post-Conference Wine and Cheese Reception
Abe Walker
City University of New York Graduate Center
Me and Larry Brown: Interrupting the Performance of Presenting “Research”– As– Performance With Research
Dave Chokroun
MFA Candidate
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Ship of Fools
Vikram Uchida-Khanna
Honors
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
2:30 pm - Room 2270
Panel 6/Production or another institutional imperative to fabricate objects. [“Legimitation, initiation, certification.”]
Chair: Lori McGillvray
Respondents: Nicholas Perrin and Andreas Kahre
The Conference in Perspective: Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Warning Signs, Threats, and Hindsight
Justin Waddell
Alberta College of Art and Design
Calgary, Alberta
Open Engagement: The Conference and the Social Turn in Contemporary Art
Jen Delos Reyes
Department of Art
Portland State University
Redefining the conference lecture
Alex Ferguson
PhD candidate
UBC Theatre Department
The Report (also presented on Friday, March 4th, 2:30 pm)
Henry Daniel
Associate Professor
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
3:30 pm - Room 2205
Panel 7/[In absentia]
Chair: Allyson Clay
Respondent: Donato Mancini
Speaker Absence as Boundary Formation
Adam R. Shapiro
Department of Medical History and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Conference as Imaginative Historicity
Dhymitruy Bouryiotis
Independent scholar
Pecos, Texas, USA
A Question for David Elliot
Stacey Ho
Independent Scholar
Vancouver, BC
4:00 pm - Room 3420 (primary) and 4390
Panel 8/Respondent to panel on respond-ence. [“Is it possible to respond? The very idea of...”]
Chair: John Anderson
Respondent: Aaron Vidaver
The Lone Gunman: Interventions and the Pathologies of Institutions
Reg Johanson
Professor
Capilano University
There is no such thing as dialogue – it is a swindle
Roger Farr
Professor
Capilano University
In the mean time and in between time, that's it, another edition of Stampede Wrestling
Am Johal
Independent Scholar
Vancouver, BC
"At Sea" Reverie as Intervention: a paper without any words.
Chris Welsby
Professor
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
7 pm - Room 4525
"Keynote" Address
Untimely Meditations and Personal Thoughts Out of Season - The destruction of place and time by the university and the Camouflage of “cynical reason”
Jerry Zaslove
Prof. Emeritus, English and Humanities
Simons Chair Graduate Liberal Studies
Simon Fraser University
8 pm - Doors close.