After Nature, Workshop Aesthetics & Critique V

Theoretical day in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy of the University of Fribourg.

For centuries, artists have been keen to paint from nature. What remains of this aesthetic project in a world where nature is revealed as already fully “anthropized”? What is left of nature, when it has lost the status of the Great Outdoors? Faced with climate emergency, other politics – but also: aesthetics – of nature become urgent. How to conceive a nature that is no longer located beyond us, but that permeates us? How to think, in return, a nature already marked by recursive processes, in short: by technique ? Perhaps nature after nature never was but that: a nature that discovers itself as having always been second nature. A nature as art.

The presentations can be watched in livestream HERE.

PROGRAM

9:00–09:30
Welcome coffee

9:30–10:00
Emmanuel Alloa, Université de Fribourg, introduction

10:00–10:45
Pietro Montani, Università di Roma La Sapienza, ‘Technique of Nature’. From Kant to the contemporary

10:45–11:30
Howard Caygill, Kingston University London, Planetary Aesthetics

12:00–12:45
Pauline Nadrigny, Université Paris I, Effet de Champ(s). Pour une écologie sonore

12:45–14:00
Lunch in Friart

14:30–15:15
Federico Luisetti, Universität St. Gallen, On the crisis of presence

15:15–16:00
Toni Hildebrandt, Universität Bern, Towards a new correlationism (thinking nature after Fukushima)

16:30–17:15
Sabeth Buchmann, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Still Natures

17:30–20:00
Book launch with Nora Kapfer

Until 21:00
Night opening and Fribar