On Thursday evening, the symposium was opened with the introducing lecture »Since When and Why Do We Fear the Future?« by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University. On Friday, guest speakers focused on specific aspects of the central topic and discussed them with the current jurors. On the third day, fellows from various artistic and academic disciplines presented their work related to the question of dealing with fear, insecurity and safety.
The interesting and stimulating contributions highlighted the different aspects of dealing with fear – all talks were very much conducive to the success of this event. Particularly fruitful discussions pointed out the essential interdisciplinary character of this symposium. In the near future, we will post presentations and images as results of this get-together.
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Program
Thursday, October 18, 2007
8.00 pm
Welcome Remarks by Jean-Baptiste Joly, Director of the Akademie
Lecture »Since When and Why Do We Fear the Future?«
by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
moderated by Philip Ursprung, University of Zurich
Friday, October 19, 2007
9.00 – 9.15 am
Introduction by Jean-Baptiste Joly, Director of the Akademie
9.15 – 10.15 am
»Why Do People Fear What They Fear? The Psychology of Risk«
by Ortwin Renn, University of Stuttgart
»From Irrational Fears to Insurable Risks«
by David N. Bresch, Swiss Reinsurance Company, Zurich
10.15 – 11.15 am
»Die Another Day: Endangered Bodies, or the Fear of Performing«
by Gerald Siegmund, University of Berne
and Maren Rieger, Berne University of the Arts
11.15 am Coffee Break
11.45 am – 12.45 pm
»Between Fear as a Spectacle and Interiorized Fear«
by Bertrand Bacqué, Haute école d'art et de design, Geneva
and Ingrid Wildi, Haute école d'art et de design, Geneva
12.45 – 1.45 pm
»Home and Fear«
by Beate Söntgen, University of Bochum
and Teresa Hubbard, University of Texas at Austin and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York
1.45 pm Lunch
2.45 – 3.45 pm
»Genetic Roots of Instinctive and Learned Fear«
by Vadim Bolshakov, Harvard Medical School, Boston
and Petros Koumoutsakos, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
3.45 pm Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.00 pm
»Mind the Gap«
by Henry Urbach, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
and Jürgen Mayer H., J. MAYER H., Berlin
5.00 – 6.00 pm
»Liberty versus Security: Bikes versus Bombs«
by Adam Thorpe, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
and Jens Martin Skibsted, Skibsted Ideation, Copenhagen
Saturday, October 20, 2007
9.00 – 10.00 am / I. Section: Design
»Manufactured Fears«
by Björn Franke
»Sweet Dreams Security™ Est. 2003 – Notes from an Orwellian City«
by Matthias Aron Megyeri
10.00 – 11.00 am / II. Section: Architecture
»5 Codes: Space of Conflict – The Temple of Janus Revisited«
by Iassen Markov and Stephan Trüby
»The Politics of Lines – on Architecture/War/Boundaries and the Production of Space«
by Gabi Schillig
11.00 am Coffee Break
11.30 am – 12.30 pm / III. Section: Performing Arts, Video
»Dealing with Fear: an Inside and an Outside Perspective«
by Susanne M. Winterling
»High over the Borders – Stories of Hummingbirds, Crying Wolves and the Bird’s Eye View«
by Helene Sommer
12.30 – 1.30 pm / IV. Section: Daily Life Between Social and Politics
»Blank Noise: Exploring Fear as Experienced by Women in Their Cities, Everyday«
by Jasmeen Patheja and Hemangini Gupta
1.30 pm Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 pm / V. Section: From the Lab to Politics and Globalization
»No Fear in the Laboratory. Art and Science in the Early Soviet Union«
by Margarete Vöhringer
»Ambivalence of Power in National Socialism. The SS Mise en Scène of Fear and Identification«
by Paula Diehl
»Dealing with the Fear of Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights in a Globalized Economy«
by Yi Shin Tang
3.30 pm Final Discussion
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