The 7th Creative Time Summit, the leading conference devoted to exploring the intersection of art and social justice, will take place 11–13 August within Okwui Enwezor’s exhibition for the Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures. The Summit’s first two days, 11–12 August, will be screened live in Helsinki in the Kino Engel cinema (Sofiankatu 4).
The 2015 Creative Time Summit, devoted to expanded notions of “curriculum”, will be the biggest Summit to date. Spanning three full days of panel discussions, artist projects, short presentations, keynote addresses, and events, the programme provides continuous opportunities for conversation, networking, shared learning, entertainment, and debate. Integrating art and politics, the Summit will address curriculum from a wide array of perspectives: the preservation of knowledge, the production of gender, the production of race, geopolitical economics, information technology, education policy, the environment, decolonization and theology.
There could not have been more appropriate place for the summit: the Venice biennale 2015 is all about art and politics. Since 2009, the annual Creative Time Summit has operated as a convening, a discussion, and a platform for the intersection of art and politics.
In Helsinki, Frame Visual Art Finland and IHME Contemporary Art Festival will arrange local programme about the themes of the Creative Time Summit and the Venice Biennale, including for example artist interviews of IC-98 and Liisa Roberts. IC-98, that is an artist duo of Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää, is representing Finland this year in the Venice Biennale. Liisa Roberts has her works in the main exhibition of the Biennale. The programme in Helsinki will be hosted by Taru Elfving, Frame’s Head of Programme, and Paula Toppila, Executive Director of IHME Contemporary Art Festival.
You’ll find further information and the full programme closer to the whole event from the Creative Time Summit page.
Welcome to join us! The admission is free.
Programme for the Creative Time Summit screening in Helsinki
Tuesday 11 August, 11.30am –7pm, Kino Engel
11.30am
Screening from Teatro Alle Tese, Venice begins
Introductions:
Anne Pasternak
Okwui Enwezor
Nato Thompson
12.00pm Keynote: Amy Goodman
12.30pm Performance: Pedro Lasch
12.45pm Break
1pm
Section 1: A Curriculum’s Contents
What decisions go into crafting curriculum? Presentations focus on knowledge that is missing from contemporary curricula and narratives that are obscured by hegemonic power. A Curriculum’s Contents is presented with the generous support of a/political.
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (moderator)
Emily Jacir
Naeem Mohaiemen
Akram Zaatari
Charles Gaines
2.30pm Break / Local programme in Kino Engel: IC-98 and Liisa Roberts in conversation with Taru Elfving
3.30pm Keynote: The Future of Afghanistan
Artist Mariam Ghani in conversation with President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani
4pm
Section 2: Educational Institution as Form
This section looks at the practical and pedagogic implications of artist-initiated educational institutions. In doing so, it brings critical attention to traditional educational structures and methodologies for decentralizing education.
Defne Ayas (moderator)
Marwa Arsanios
Marinella Senatore
Kunlé Adeyemi
Tina Sherwell
5.30pm Break
5.45pm Short Films
6.15pm Conversation: Arts Schoolaboratory
Arts Schoolaboratory is presented in partnership with Hivos and DOEN Foundation
6.45pm
Closing Statements
Nato Thompson
Sally Szwed
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Wednesday 12 August, 11.30am –7pm, Kino Engel
11.30am Introductions: Nato Thompson
11.40am Statement: Marco Baravalle of S.a.L.E. Docks
11.50am
Field Report from Cuba
Paolo Rosso of Microlima
Vuk Ćosic
Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas
12.05pm
Statement: Sandino Bucio Dovalí
12.15pm
Section 3: The Geography of Learning
Speakers explore the relationship between knowledge systems and geopolitics, as seen in contexts ranging from indigenous communities to the migrant conditions that yield creolized forms of knowledge.
The Geography of Learning is presented with the generous support of Ellen and Bill Taubman.
Mina Setra (moderator)
Teju Cole
Michael Gerace of Re-locate Kivalina
Athi Mongezeleli Joja of Gugulective
Jolene Rickard
Ande Somby
1.45pm Break / local programme in Kino Engel: Axel Straschnoy, Olga Jitlina and Marja Helander in conversation with Paula Toppila
2.45pm Keynote: Achille Mbembe
3.15pm
Section 4: The Art of Pedagogy
Based on the premise that art can be a form of open inquiry, this section focuses on artists whose work deploys the innate pedagogic possibilities of artistic practice.
Paul Ramírez Jonas (moderator)
Beatrice Catanzaro
Sarat Majaraj
Hope Ginsburg
Cesare Pietroiusti
4.45pm
Statement: Gregory Sholette of Gulf Labor
5pm Break / Local programme in Kino Engel: screening of Sasha Huber’s new video KARAKIA The Resetting Ceremony (2015)
5.15pm
Section 5: Knowledge as Collective Experience
How can knowledge arise through social relations and shared experiences? Artists and activists in this section discuss how harnessing collective knowledge has informed their community-engaged practices.
Eduardo Maura (moderator)
Farid Rakun of Ruangrupa
Eleanor Saitta
Simone Leigh
Maria Galindo of Mujeres Creando
6.45pm Performance: Pedro Lasch
Connect with Creative Time Summit Helsinki
The Creative Time Summit engages presenters and audience members in Venice and others around the world in real time. Audience members will be able to use the hashtag #CTSummit on Twitter to connect with Summit presenters and attendees around the world. Add the hashtag #CTSHel to tell the world where you are joining the discussion from. Tweet directly to the Creative Time Summit Helsinki organisers using @framefinland and @IHMEfestival.