METHOD/ART #5
Confronting Conflicts
Initiated by Adilia On-ying Yip, Vivi Touloumidi and Umut Eldem
12 - 15 April 2023
at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
The next edition of METHOD/ART #5 will be part of the international conference CUMULUS, to be organized at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the University of Antwerp from 12th to 15th April 2023.
Conflict, though consuming and challenging, inevitably results in the construction of a more conscious model of interconnectedness. Crisis can become a catalyst of co-dependence that fuels art and design processes that respond to a broad range of critical conditions, from the collapse of local social systems to the global ecological catastrophes.
Conflict may also mean overcoming old conventions and the delusion of control, which presupposes new capacities and competences for engagement and co-action. The ability of creatively crafting such methods and strategies resides in one’s competence to connect and communicate with the assemblages in which one finds themselves to be participating in.
Culture can bring conative bodies to confrontation and resilience. By accepting the losses and costs attached to such endeavors and by continuing to contemplate the possible changes and the alternative scenarios of co-existence, established norms can be cancelled and rendered irrelevant. Art and design absorb and reflect back to our value systems. Therefore, taking in consideration its transformative agency, creativity with courage can play an active role in maintaining resilience and in building sustainable human and non-human collaborations of mutual common futures.
The METHOD/ART seminar welcomes contributions that explicitly address different states and processes of conflict in the contexts, strategies and creativity in diverse artistic disciplines. We are looking for proposals for lectures, performances and workshops with a specific focus on methodologies and artistic research enquiries that consult conflict and empower interdependence, remedy and care. We look forward to cultivating a seminar program with a collection of artists, designers, performers, researchers and an overall community of co-actors.
- Uncertainty in method and practice
- Ecological strategies
- Cultural activism
- Participatory practices
- Pedagogical projects
Lectures and lecture-performances by Peter Lemmens, Roelof Petrus van Wyk, Andrew Vallance, Lauren Alexander, Christopher Lee, Desamparados Pardo, Andrea Cammarosano, Marija Griniuk, Yael Eylat Van Essen, Djie Han Thung, Adilia Yip, Andrea Mendoza & Angelo Maria Farro, Klaas Devos, Giusy Caruso, Paolo Belluco & Samuele Polistina
Workshops by Vedrana Ikalovic & Sigrun Prahl, Danielle Arets, Falk Hübner & Thijs van den Houdt
Installation-exhibitions by Guido Devaddr, Diaa Lagan, Gert Wastyn & Steven Malliet, Satu Miettinen, Amna Qureshi, Heidi Pietarinen & Melanie Sarantou
Poster by Ágnes Jekli, Hanny Wijaya