‘As Yet…’
Saturday 10th February, 2007. From 13.00
please reserve to avoid disappointment!!
We would like to invite you to “As Yet…”, a day-long informance
wherein artists and theorists will be exploring different motives of
speculation with relation to their work, by means of lectures,
performances, readings and films.
With a.o. Ralph Bauer (D), Patricia Railing (UK), Kodwo Eshun (UK),
Bill Aitchison (UK), Sönke Hallman (DE), Albert van der Schoot (NL).
Moderated and organised by Will Holder (GB) & Falke Pisano (NL)
PROGRAM
13.00 introduction by Will Holder & Falke Pisano
13.15 “Speculatio Muscalis”, Albert van der Schoot (lecture)
14.00 “Meeting Sebastien Planchard” by Benoit Maire (screening)
14.15 “34 Suprematist Drawings, Reconsidered”, Patricia Railing
(lecture)
15.15 “A Protein Primer”, Joan Slonczewski (screening)
15.30 break
16.00 “The Empty Space of Reading”, Sönke Hallmann (lecture)
16.45 “Mimsy were the Borogoves” by Lewis Padgett, Will Holder (reading)
17.15 “The name of the lecture is…”, Ralph Bauer (screening)
17.45 launch FR DAVID
18.15 dinner
19.15 “Erasmus is Late”, Liam Gillick, by Will Holder (reading)
19.30 “Cartesian Mime”, Bill Aitchison (lecture)
20.15 “Video Breakfasting, Together, If you Wish”, Robert Filliou,
20.40 “The Future of Life” by Frank Koolen (screening)
21.00 “Futurama: A Fishful of Dollars” (screening)
end and out 22.00-23.00
please note: at 17.45, the launch of F.R. DAVID, de Appel’s new
quarterly publication, (edited by Ann Demeester, Will Holder and
Dieter Roelstraete. first edition: the “As Yet…” issue with Falke
Pisano)
“As Yet…” was conceived as part of an investigation into
speculative reason.
In this we do not aim to come to a definition, cover a complete field
of speculation, or find answers to specific questions about speculation.
Instead, we consider the event as an opportunity to explore the term
and its borders as well as its instigative potential by inviting a
broad range of speakers to consider the idea of speculation in fields
that do not straightforwardly exhibit the role of speculation in
their practice and/or discourse.
And here we are particularly interested in investigating the meaning
of the action of speculating itself. In order to do so, we will look
at the term’s borders by relating it to practices that do not
directly present themselves as places where speculation happens in a
straightforward way (in music or Corporeal Mime for instance), by
placing it in discourses and in connection to terms that are related
to speculation but at the same time differ on crucial points
(potentiality, causality, anticipation) and by looking at concepts
that play a role in the situation in which speculation happens
(perception, language, interpretation, logic).
Will Holder & Falke Pisano
hosted by de Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10,
co-produced by the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht