Program 2025

           7th ART AND THE CITY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

                          "Art, Urbanocene and the City"           

Thursday 5 June

10:00-10:30 WELCOME COFFEE

10:30-10:40 WELCOME SPEECH, Vittorio Parisi, Aesthetics, The Villa Arson Nice

10:40-11:00 WELCOME SPEECH, Tijen Tunali, Art History and Theory, University of Rennes 2

Art, Urbanocene and the City

11:00-11:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH: Sacha Kagan, Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim

Artistic Queering and the Urban Iridescence of Jewish heritage

SESSION 1 Urbanocene and the Politics of Urban Space

Chair: Sacha Kagan, Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim

11:45            Helena Segarra, Julien Sagarra, Miriam Hasselbacher, Fine Arts,                        Austrian Academy of Science

Ma(r)king the Park: How Children and Elderly People Re-imagine Green Spaces with the    Neighborhood through Printing Teqniques

12:05            Cristina Stoenescu, Political Science, University of Bucharest 

Non Prescriptive Green Spaces in Bucharest; Memory, Abandonment, Privat Interests

12:25            Elena Gordienko, Theater Studies, Centre for Research on Europe and Eurasia

Urban Curiosity Map: Capturing the Changing City

12:45-13:15 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                LUNCH 13:15-14:00

SESSION 2 · Digitalized Approaches to Urban Ecology

Chair: Tijen Tunali, Art History and Theory, University of Rennes 2

14:00                 Oleksandra Nenko, Otso Aavanranta, Dominik Schlienger, and Alejandro Montes de Oca, TIAS University of Turku and University of the Arts Helsinki

Enabling the ‘possible’ in urban places: collective electronic musicking in Helsinki

14:20                Yulia S Tihomirova, Heritage Science, Sapienza University Roma

Liminal Spaces: Augmented Reality Artivism in Urban Contexts

14:40                Berit Hummel, Art History, University of Muenster

Experiencing the Urban through AI

15:00-15:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                  COFFEE BREAK 15:30-16:00

Chair: Ruben Yepes, Art History and Visual Culture, Georgia College & State University

16:00             Catherina Preda, Political Science, University of Bucharest,

Political Street Art in Bucharest      

16:20              Natalie Novik, Art and Design, University of Gothenburg

Art Commoning and Spatial Resistance    

16:40              Virginia Vannucci, Art History, University of Florence

Between Art and Ecology: The Urban Ecosystems of Caretto/Spagna

17:00-17:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

Friday 6 June

10:00-10:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH: Leah Modigliani, Associate Professor of Visual Studies
Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University 

Cities of God: Looking up at and from the Unfathomable Scale of Disaster

SESSION 4  Ecological Urban Artscapes

Chair: Vittorio Parisi, Aesthetics,Villa Arson Nice

10:45            Phillip Schnell, Birgit Schweiger, Renate Billensteiner, Urban and  Regional Research , Austrian Academy of Science

Collaborative Drawing and the Revolution of Urban Futures

11:05           Marianna D’ovidio, Carlos Mazano, Cecilia Nessi

 Unpamming Artscapes: Independent Art Organizations

11:25            Yun Zhang, Fine Arts, University of Lisbon

Urban Sensory Experience Through Plants and Art

11:45-12:15 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                   LUNCH 12:15-13:00

SESSION 5   Art, Participation and the City                 

Chair: Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández, Art History, University of Nevada

13:00           Anne Busk Bro, Communications and Arts, Roskilde University

Participatory Art: Conflicts in Social Housing Areas            

13:20           Mateusz Bieczynsky, Art History, University of Poznan

Rethinking Urban Memory and Participation  

13:40            Paula Casillas Sánchez, Literature and Screen Arts, Laval University

Participatory Street Art in Action: Urban Methamorposes in the Urbanocenen Era

14:00-14:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                 COFFEE BREAK 14:30-15:00

SESSION 6   Embodying and Enacting Repressed Urban Ecologies

Chair: Petr Vasat, Sociology, The Czech Academy of Sciences

15:00               Kristine Samson, Performative Urbanism Lab, Roskilde University 

Performative Urbanism - Embodied Forms of Memory Work, Imagining Regenerative                                 Futures?  

15:20                 Lasse Mouritzen, Urban-dramaturg, Sydhavn Theatre, (DK).

Envisioning Futures with a Haunted Landscape       

15:40                 Rodrigo Andreolli, Choreographer and performer, Teatro Oficina, (BR).   Louise Lassen Iversen , Curator Tilvægs (DK).

 Mirroring Places: Social and Environmental Justice through Performance Art?

16:00-16:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

16:30-17:30    ROUNDTABLE: Public Arts Garage – An Evolving Methodology of Tinkering
Research Group-Creative Approaches to Public Space EUR CAPS

Key presenter: Martin Leibinger, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Co-moderator: Marion Holfeldt, head of EUR CAPS, University of Rennes 2

Participants:

Silvy Pannet-Raymond, EUR CAPS, Concordia University

Yvon Bonenfant, University College Cork

Alexandra Toland, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Jo Milne, EINA, Centre Universitari d’Art i Disseny & University of Barcelona