Colloquium Social Practice: Art in Times of Destruction
- A presentation and academic launch for In the Absence of Bombs
- A conversation between Sruti Bala, Pascal Gielen and Lara Khaldi
- The publication will be available for purchase
What: Colloquium at the Universiteitstheater: In the Absence of Bombs
When: Thursday 19 March, 16.00–18.00 hr
Where: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16–18, Amsterdam
Organised by: AHM, ASCA en Valiz
Entry: Free, but seating is limited. To RSVP please send an email to marieke@valiz.nl
Language: English
Programme
16.00 Introduction by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
16.10 Book introduction by Pascal Gielen
16.20 Panel discussion, moderated by Sruti Bala
17.00 Broader discussion with audience
17.30 Drinks, book sales
18.00 End
More about In the Absence of Bombs
Sruti Bala is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests revolve around the intersections of culture, performance and politics, which has taken shape in projects on nonviolent protest, participatory art, artistic activism, feminist and postcolonial/decolonial theories and translation.
More information: www.uva.nl/profiel/s.bala
Pascal Gielen (b. 1970) is a writer and a full professor of Sociology of Culture and Politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) at the University of Antwerp, where he also leads the Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO). As editor-in-chief of the international book series Antennae – Arts in Society (Valiz), he curates critical reflections on how culture shapes - and is shaped by - society. Gielen is awarded the prestigious Odysseus Grant by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for his outstanding international research achievements. Through his writings, he traces the intersections of creative labour, the commons, and cultural politics, often venturing into the field to study how culture takes root and resists in conflict zones such as the Amazon and Ukraine. Gielen contributes regular to the Belgian newspapers De Morgen and De Standaard.
Lara Khaldi is the Artistic Director of de Appel, she is also an alumna of its curatorial programme, 2013/2014. She was a member of the curatorial team of documenta 15, 2020-2023 . She taught at and was the head of the Media Studies Programme at Alquds Bard College, Jerusalem, 2018 - 2020 and a tutor in the Disarming Design MA program, at Sandberg Institute, 2020-2022. Lara curated numerous exhibitions, some are; The Sharjah Biennial offsite project Shifting Grounds, Ramallah in 2017; A Sequence of Events in the Lives of the Dorment, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2020. She has edited and contributed to many publications, among them In aching agony and longing I wait for you at the Spring of Thieves: Jumana Emil Abboud (Black Dog Press, 2018).