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.