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Fluxus, Action Art, Anti-art and Performativity – Tomas Schmit Retrospective – Symposium
Reception*
Marius Babias, director n.b.k., and Gabriele Knapstein, curator and head of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Introduction*
Jenny Graser, curator for contemporary art, Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Keynote lecture**
Kristine Stiles, professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
Performativity in the Work of Tomas Schmit*
Jenny Graser, Susanne Rennert, art historian, author and curator, Dusseldorf, Dieter Mersch, philosopher, aesthetic theory, Zurich, moderated by Julia Friedrich, curator Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Legacy of Fluxus – the Role of Artists and Anti-art today**
Zdenka Badovinac, curator and author, Ljubljana, Karen Moss, professor of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Kristine Stiles, moderated by Beatrice von Bismarck, professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig
Thinking in Hybrid Patterns**
Alexandra Pirici, artist, Bucharest, moderated by Krisztina Hunya, curator and project manager n.b.k.
Reading*
Gerhard Rühm, artist and composer, Cologne, and Monika Lichtenfeld, music scholar, translator und publisher, Cologne
Contemporary witness interviews*
Peter Brötzmann (jazz musician and artist, Wuppertal) and Gerhard Rühm (artist, author and composer, Cologne)
* In German
** In English
Documentation of the symposium on October 23, 2021, on the occasion of the Tomas Schmit Retrospective
n.b.k. Concert 89
Symposium
Published by Marius Babias
USB, 5:08 h, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 2022
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