Event overview
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A two-day colloquium in memory of Cornelia Vismann.
The death, last year, of legal and media scholar Cornelia Vismann is grieved by the two departments in which she spent time. She was a Leverhulme Research Professor in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths and the Birkbeck School of Law in 2006 as well as co-organiser of "Eyewitness - The Documentary Turn in Legal and Visual Cultures" in 2008. Cornelia left friends and scholars with a unique intellectual legacy that spanned the disciplinary divides between art, literature, media, philosophy, architecture, and law.
Rather than an interrogation of her work, this colloquium celebrates the intellectual life of Cornelia Vismann by bringing together legal scholars, contemporary artists and media theorists to build upon and extend the ground breaking ideas and provocative discussions that her work has generated. Together, we will try to evolve Vismann's project and interrogate issues of law, philosophy, and media as they continue to ‘write’ and ‘rewrite’ each other juridically and culturally. The event is structured around three areas of investigation captured by three of her texts: Files on the obscure power of the legal files, Tele-Tribunals on the mediatization of legal hearings and The Love of Ruins on the discursive function of the fragment in witing and matter.
Organised by the Birkbeck School of Law and the Department of Visual Cultures, and Centre for Research Architecture / Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths.
Readings available here: http://cms.gold.ac.uk/forensic-architecture/events/june/
Friday June 10th at GOLDSMITHS LG02 (New Academic Building)
10:00 Arrival, Coffee
10:15 Introduction Piyel Haldar and Eyal Weizman
10:30 Irit Rogoff
11:00 Files
Piyel Haldar (moderator)
• Maria Aristodemou
• Kobe Matthys AGENCE
• Anton Schutz
1:30 Lunch
2:30 The Love of Ruins
Eyal Weizman (moderator)
• Thomas Keenan
• Fareed Armaly
• Lior Barshack
Saturday June 11th at the SHOWROOM
63 Penfold Street, London NW8 (entrance on Penfold Street, just off Edgware Road)
11:00 Arrival, Coffee
Introduction: Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Susan Schuppli
11:30 Tele-Tribunals
Kodwo Eshun (moderator)
• Lynn Turner
• Lawrence Abu Hamdan
• Janna Graham
1:30 Presentation of Resource Space (Model Court) Coffee, Light Refreshments
2:30 Tele-Tribunals / session two
Susan Schuppli (moderator)
• Judy Radul
• Costas Douzinas
Reading and Resource Space
Tuesday June 7th -11th at the SHOWROOM
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Jun 2011 |
10:00am - 6:00pm Location: Goldsmiths NAB LG02 |
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| 11 Jun 2011 |
10:00am - 6:00pm Location: The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street NW8 |
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