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Political Cargo – Public annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge«

Warburg-Haus, Friday & Saturday, October 29th-30th, 2021

Politische Fracht. Bilderfahrzeuge im globalen Austausch
Political Cargo. Image Vehicles in Global Exchange

We cordially invite you to attend the public annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology« is taking place at the Warburg-Haus from October 29 to 30, 2021!

To join online via Zoom, see links below

Organized by Leena Crasemann, Uwe Fleckner & Yannis Hadjinicolaou

The annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology« is dedicated to the topic of the different »cargos« with which the »automotive images vehicles« (Aby Warburg) at the centre of the project’s research are loaded. Its main focus lies on the aesthetic and political dimensions of what are often global transfer and exchange processes, and on the type and (sometimes active) possible effects of the things and ideas being conveyed. The sections are devoted to three subject areas: firstly, natural objects that are effective in political interactions, for example during diplomatic encounters, secondly, materials that are subject to migration processes, but also help to determine them, and thirdly, mobile and translocally travelling architectures and architectural fragments.

Please note that the 2G-rule (convalescent or vaccinated persons) currently applies to access to events in the Warburg-Haus. Registration is required, please write to: eva.landmann@uni-hamburg.de.

You can also participate in the conference, which is carried out in hybrid mode, from abroad:

Zoom links

FRI Oct 29

Political Cargo, 29.Okt..2021 09:30 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien, Meeting-ID: 693 5682 9526, password: 14234826

Join Zoom meeting: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/69356829526?pwd=T2draUZyS2lNRWo1MGwzTXk3bFZVQT09

SAT Oct 30

Political Cargo II, 30.Okt..2021 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien, Meeting-ID: 660 2646 2726, password: 93545338

Join Zoom meeting: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/66026462726?pwd=M0RpTDBldkxjM3o0N0JVVFVVODJLUT09

Program

Friday, October 29th, 2021

09.30h Welcome

Naturalia in political interaction(s)

• 10.00-11.00h Anita Hosseini: A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Amitis Motevallis »Golestan Revisited«
• 11.00-12.00h Yannis Hadjinicolaou: Wandering Falcons / Wandering Images. Falconry as diplomatic cargo

12.00-12.30h Break

• 12.30-13.30h Lianming Wang: Celebrating Urban Spectacles. Asian elephants, territorial locality, and the transcultural practices in early-modern Europe and China
• 13.30-14.30h Stefan Trinks: Politisiertes Elfenbein von der Spätantike bis zum Herbst des Mittelalters

14.30-15.30h Lunch Break

Material Migrations (I)

• 15.30-16.30h Claudia Swan: Interrupted Itineraries. Shipwreck, piracy, and the making of the Dutch Republic
• 16.30-17.30h Uwe Fleckner: Spolia of Urban Destruction. Past and present in Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum

Saturday, October 30th, 2021

Material Migrations (II)

• 10.00-11.00h Leena Crasemann: Fibers, Fabrics, Patterns on the Move. Material agency of textiles in contemporary art and beyond
• 11.00-12.00h Jessica Hemmings: Toward a Minor Textile Architecture. Kathryn Clark, Loren Schwerd and Igshaan Adams

12.00-12.30h Break

Architecture Set in Motion

• 12.30-13.30h Robert Kronenburg: Moving, Making, Dwelling. The human drive to build mobile architecture
• 13.30-14.30h Matteo Burioni: We All Have Baggage. Pietro della Valle between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth century

14.30-15.30h Lunch break

• 15.30-16.30h Mari Lending: Monuments en route. Shipping plaster architecture in the nineteenth century
• 16.30-17.30h Nina Groß: Weit hergeholt. Europäische Architekturfragmente als Geschichtsprothesen im Hearst Castle
• 17.30-18.30h Judith Rottenburg: Das »Musée Dynamique« in Dakar. Über-Setzung architektonischer Formen in einem internationalen Ausstellungshaus

• International research project »Bilderfahrzeuge«

Downloads

• Overview POLITICAL CARGO

Bilder als Akteure des Politischen / Bilderfahrzeuge