Symposium // Bildersturm und Bilderflut // iconoclash // ZKM

[anna balint]

[rarely I  feel sorry for that a symposium is too far away. but this exhibition
and symposum where Bruno Latour, Peter Sloterdijk and Hans Belting meets David Freedberg - known in anthropology 
and medieval studies for his famous study about living images, Peter Galison, who extensively researched the way 
tehnology escaped the scentiest's control during the second world war, and so many experts in one symposium about 
iconclash.... together with the exhibiton curated by Peter Weibel, and co-curated by and internatonal team lead by 
Bruno Latour, looks like a must. ab]


Symposium Bildersturm und Bilderflut // 
Image Wars and Image Floods Reflexionen zur Ausstellung "iconoclash" 
Fr 12.07. - Sa 13.07.02 // 9-20 Uhr // ZKM 

Das ZKM Karlsruhe und das Graduiertenkolleg "Bild-Körper-Medium" an der
HfG Karlsruhe veranstalten anlässlich der Ausstellung "iconoclash.
Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion und Kunst" im ZKM
das internationale Symposium "Bildersturm und Bilderflut". Die Tagung
nimmt Themen der großen Ausstellung auf, welche die Konflikte um Bilder
sowohl in historischen Situationen wie auch in der zeitgenössischen Welt
vorstellt. Dabei gerät auch die Gegenwartskunst mit ihren Problemen
angesichts von Repräsentationen in das Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit.
Insbesondere werden Bildfragen diskutiert, die in den drei Bereichen
Religion, Kunst und heutiger Naturwissenschaft eine maßgebliche Rolle
spielen oder gespielt haben. Im Rahmen des Symposiums wird das
interdisziplinäre Spektrum deutlich, in welchem heute die Bildfrage
lokalisiert werden muss. 

Tagungsadresse // ZKM-Medientheater // Lorenzstraße 19 // 76135 Karlsruhe
Info // http://www.zkm.de
Tagungsgebühren // für 1 Tag  € 15/8 // für 2 Tage  € 20/12 // inklusive
Eintritt zur Ausstellung "iconoclash"
Reservierung // Infotheke +49 (0)721/81 00-12 00 Programm //
Fr 12.07. // 9:00 - 11:00 //
Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe) und Hans Belting (Karlsruhe) // Begrüßung
Brian O'Doherty (New York) // The last Duchamp Portrait by Patrick
Ireland alias B. O'Doherty
David Freedberg (New York) // Bamiyan
11:30 - 13:30 //
W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago) // Offending Images
Peter Galison (Harvard) // Simulation, Imagery and the Iconoclash
15:00 - 17:00 //
Jan Assmann (Heidelberg) // Zwischen Ikonoklasmus und Idolatrie: vom
Sinn des Bilderverbots
Othmar Keel (Fribourg) // Die Eherne Schlange in Jerusalem und ihre Zerstörung
Bruno Latour (Paris) // What is Iconoclash?
17:30 - 20:00 //
Henk van Os (Amsterdam) // What to Do with the Return of Iconoclasm?
Dario Gamboni (Amsterdam) // Neque delenda imago
Martin Schulz (Karlsruhe) // Die ikonoklastische Geste des Modernismus
Sa 13.07. // 9:00 - 11:30 //
Siegfried Gohr (Karlsruhe) // "Bilderstreit" als Bilderstreit
Friedhelm Mennekes SJ (Köln/Frankfurt) // Praxis Bilderstreit. Über den
Umgang mit Bildern in Sankt Peter in Köln
Lydia Haustein (Berlin/Göttingen) // "Apocalypse Now" – Das Bild als Tor
zum Leben
12:00 - 14:00 //
Hubertus von Amelunxen (Lübeck/Montréal) // A W-Hole Image –  Gordon
Matta-Clark und die Bleibe des Bildes
Anne-Marie Bonnet (Bonn) // Ausweitung der Bildzone von Körpern und
Bildern im "bodyturn"
15:00 - 17:30
Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe) // Das algorithmische Bild – von der
Repräsentation zur Partizipation
Claudia Honegger (Bern) // Gesellschaftsbilder: Repräsentation und Repräsentativität
Joseph Leo Koerner (London) // Divine Concealment in Hieronymus Bosch
18:00 - 20:00 //
Gerhard Wolf (Rom/Trier) // Das paradoxe Bildkonzept der acheiropoieta
zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen (Arbeitstitel)
Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe) // Gewalt der Bilder – Bilder der Gewalt
Podiumsdiskussion // --

Iconoclash
Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art 
4 May – 4 August 2002
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe


ICONOCLASH. Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and 
Art. An international exhibition opening 3rd of May 2002 in the 
Center for Art and Media [ZKM] in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is being 
mounted under the executive curatorship of Peter Weibel [CEO of 
the ZKM] and administered by Sabine Himmelsbach and Gregor 
Jansen with an international interdisciplinary team of co-curators 
led by Bruno Latour [F] composed of Peter Galison [USA/D],Daro 
Gamboni [CH/NL],Joseph Koerner [USA/UK],Adam Lowe [UK] and 
Hans Ulrich Obrist [CH/F] to which has been added the expertise of 
Hans Belting [D], Marie-José Mondzain [F], Heather Stoddard [F], 
Boris Groys [D] and Denis Laborde [F].

The exhibit aims to display, in a systematic confrontation, three 
great clashes about representation – about its necessity, sanctity, 
and power – in the domains of science, art, and religion. Image 
wars are everywhere, from the Taliban destruction of the Buddhas 
to the doubts about scientific imagery, through the debunking of 
media powerful manipulations. By linking the three domains of 
theology, art and science all at once, the aim is not to increase 
the critical mood or to reinforce disbelief and irony. On the 
contrary, the aim is to transform iconoclasm from being an 
indisputable resource into a topic to be systematically 
interrogated.

Instead of mocking once more those who produce images or 
instead of being simply furious against those who destroy them, 
the show aim at placing the viewer in this quandary: »We cannot 
do without representation. If only we could do without 
representation«. Monotheist religions, scientific theories, 
contemporary arts, not to forget political theories, have all 
struggled with this contradictory urge of producing and also 
destroying representations, images and emblems of all sorts. 
Through many works of ancient, modern and contemporary arts, 
through many scientific instruments, the show will fathom that 
quandary which has been so important for the self-understanding 
of the Western world. It aims at moving beyond the image wars by 
showing that behind this dramatic history of destruction of images, 
something else has always been going on: a cascade of image 
production which will be made visible throughout the exhibit, in 
the traditional christian images as well as in the scientific 
laboratories and in the various experiments of contemporary art, 
music, cinema and architecture.

While the big struggles of iconoclasts against icon worshippers 
were going on, another history of iconophily has always been at 
work. This alternative history of the Western obsession with image 
worship and destruction will allow the establishment of less biased 
comparisons with other cultures influential in the rest of the world 
for which images have a very different role to play.

Not an art show, not a science and art show, not an history of art 
show, Iconoclash offers a bewildering display of experiments on 
how to suspend the iconoclastic gesture and how to renew the 
movement of images against any freeze-framing. 

With numerous documents, scientific objects [cloud chamber, spark 
chamber, mathematical models, images from chaos theory and 
astronomy et al.], religious idols [medieval altar retables, 
reconstruction of a stupa with tibetian buddha figures et al.], and 
artworks by Arman, Art & Language, Fiona Banner, Willi 
Baumeister, Christian Boltanski, Candice Breitz, Günther Brus, 
Daniel Buren, Lucas Cranach, Max Dean, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht 
Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Felix Gmelin, Francisco de Goya, Hans 
Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Young Hay, Arata Isozaki, Martin 
Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Komar & Melamid, Joseph Kosuth, 
Kasimir Malevich, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Tracey 
Moffat, Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Prina, Man Ray, 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Sophie Ristelhuber, Axel Roch, Jeffrey Shaw, 
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Franz Erhard Walther, and many others.

The exhibitions is accompanied by a comprehensive publicaton 
[MIT Press] on the theme of the show and a leaflet [german]. 
The catalog can be oredred by email or fax. 

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