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

10:40-11:00 WELCOME SPEECH, Tijen Tunali

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

Collaborative Drawing and the Revolution of Urban Futures

12:25            Elena Gordienko, Theater Studies, Europes-Eurasia Research Centre (CREE), Inalco

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:  Oleksandra Nenko, TIAS University of Turku and University of the Arts Helsinki

14:00                 Oleksandra Nenko &Otso Aavanranta,  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. Tikhomirova, Heritage Science, Sapienza University Roma

Liminal Spaces: Augmented Reality Artivism in Urban Contexts

14:40-15:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                  COFFEE BREAK 15:00-15:30

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

15:30             Caterina Preda, Political Science, University of Bucharest

 Political Street Art in Bucharest           

15: 50            Natalie Novik, Art and Design, University of Gothenburg

Art Commoning and Spatial Resistance   

16: 10           Ruben Yepes, Art History and Visual Culture, Georgia College & State University

Urban Interventions: Art, Covid-19, and Crisis in Latin America

16:30-17:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

19.00-22:00 Conference Dinner 

Restaurant L'Union Nice https://www.unionrestaurant.fr/ 

Fix Menu for 36 euros (drinks not included)

Friday 6 June

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

Looking up at and from the Unfathomable Scale of Disaster

SESSION 4  Multiple Ecologies and Urban Artscapes

Chair: Vittorio Parisi, Aesthetics,Villa Arson Nice

10:45       Marianna D’ovidio & Carlos Manzano  Urban Sociology, the University of Milan-Bicocca

 Unpamming Artscapes: Independent Art Organizations

11:05        Yun Zhang, Fine Arts, University of Lisbon

Urban Sensory Experience Through Plants and Art

11:25        Pan Mengfei, Tourism and Community Development, Kokugakuin University, Japan

Observing and Exploring the Street: From Art to Community Building

11:45 -12:05 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                   LUNCH 12:05-13:00

SESSION 5   Art, Participation and the City                 

Chair: Mel Jordan, Art and Public Sphere, Coventry University

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  

13:40-14:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

                                                 COFFEE BREAK 14:00-14:30

SESSION 6   Embodying and Enacting Repressed Urban Ecologies

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

14:30               Kristine Samson, Performative Urbanism Lab, Roskilde University 

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

14:50                 Lasse Mouritzen, Urban-dramaturg, Sydhavn Theatre, (DK).

Envisioning Futures with a Haunted Landscape       

15:10                 Rodrigo Andreolli, Choreographer and Performer, Teatro Oficina, (BR).   Louise Lassen Iversen , Curator Tilvægs (DK).

 Mirroring Places: Social and Environmental Justice through Performance Art?

15:30-16:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

16:00-17:00    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

Moderator: Marion Hohlfeld, University of Rennes 2

Participants:

Silvy Panet-Raymond, EUR CAPS, Concordia University

Alexandra Toland, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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