RE:MODERN

Symposia

sounding difference (I)
May 28, 2005, 3 - 9 p.m.
MEDIENTURM Graz
Josefigasse 1, 8020 Graz, Austria

sounding difference (II)
10. September 2005, 3 - 9 p.m.
Künstlerhaus
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Audiovisual Performance

"Lange Nacht der Musik"
June, 2005
Künstlerhauskino

‘Modernity’ is a polysemantic term: there are a number of art-historian and -theoretical theses concerning this era. Two interdisciplinary symposia will feature lectures and discussions with renowned artists and theorists. The permanent discourse around modernism, postmodernism, and ‘second modernism’ will be taken up and continued.

The relevant sciences do not agree on the time of the beginning and on the lasting of modernism; this topic becomes almost unmanageable when dealing with the question what sort of epoch we currently live in. The different theses on this topic are discussed and compared. Which explanatory models can reveal why such an enormous interest in modernism has emerged just in the course of the last years? Do we merely face a short-lived fashion in contemporary art business, or does a sustainable trend become apparent?

In the context of the symposia, the question is discussed critically and analytically, whether the contemporary renaissance of modernism shall be characterized as reactionary or progressive trend, restauration or new start, whether nostalgia, retrochic, and epigonizing are celebrated, or the overcoming of eclectic postmodernism is seriously tackled. Is the current revival of modernistic forms only a particularly perfidious recycling strategy of the postmodern age, or is it the attempt to set something against it?


	Symposia sounding difference (I) May 28, 2005, 3 - 9 p.m. MEDIENTURM Graz Josefigasse 1, 8020 Graz, Austria sounding difference (II) 10. September 2005, 3 - 9 p.m. Künstlerhaus Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria Audiovisual Performance "Lange Nacht der Musik" June, 2005 Künstlerhauskino ‘Modernity’ is a polysemantic term: there are a number of art-historian and -theoretical theses concerning this era. Two interdisciplinary symposia will feature lectures and discussions with renowned artists and theorists. The permanent discourse around modernism, postmodernism, and ‘second modernism’ will be taken up and continued. The relevant sciences do not agree on the time of the beginning and on the lasting of modernism; this topic becomes almost unmanageable when dealing with the question what sort of epoch we currently live in. The different theses on this topic are discussed and compared. Which explanatory models can reveal why such an enormous interest in modernism has emerged just in the course of the last years? Do we merely face a short-lived fashion in contemporary art business, or does a sustainable trend become apparent? In the context of the symposia, the question is discussed critically and analytically, whether the contemporary renaissance of modernism shall be characterized as reactionary or progressive trend, restauration or new start, whether nostalgia, retrochic, and epigonizing are celebrated, or the overcoming of eclectic postmodernism is seriously tackled. Is the current revival of modernistic forms only a particularly perfidious recycling strategy of the postmodern age, or is it the attempt to set something against it? Timetable sounding difference (I) sounding difference (II)