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18 Jun 2025 15:00

Conference | Fluid Geographies. Reconsidering The Notion of Border in Contemporary Art

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Fluid Geographies. Reconsidering The Notion of Border in Contemporary Art

International Conference, 18-19 June 2025, Venice

Organized by Cristina Baldacci (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Christina Hainzl (University for Continuing Education Krems), in collaboration with German Center for Venetian Studies, Palazzo Grassi – Pinault Collection Venezia and Lungomare

Abstract:
Borders do not exist but are dispositifs – to use a Foucaultian concept – politically conceived and geographically predetermined but also psychologically experienced or socially and culturally constructed. Borders do not have to close; they can also connect. The border can be a place, as well as a non-place of encounter and/or separation.
Borders are fluid: they change through observation, movement and construction. Borders can both disappear and be broken.
People are constantly crossing borders, be it out of protest, a desire for power or because they are on the run. Sometimes we cross our inner boundaries and discuss the limits of what can be said. But borders are also patterns of order, such as the ordering of epochs or metric measurements. Ideological borders change based on experience. Once established, borders also remain constant in our imagination and change through dreams. Artistic projects are just as often concerned with these transgressions. 
What borders do artists, curators and scholars come up against? How do they define and negotiate them? In line with these questions, the two-day conference deals with the topic of borders especially from the perspective of photography and the moving image. 
During a workshop on the first day, artists, curators and scholars will exchange views on the various boundaries and how they personally deal with them in their profession. In doing so, participants will adopt theoretical-philosophical, technological-media and even ecological perspectives to explore the limits of photography and the moving image and to highlight future challenges and trends.
The second day will be dedicated to individual presentations and film screenings. There will be a focus, on one side, on perspectives on liminal border crossings, dreams and the power of the imagination, and, on the other, on fractures in nature and art, and ecological reparation. 
At the end of the two days, the book Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies (transcript Verlag, 2025), which delves into the fragile but resilient Venetian cultural ecosystem at the time of the climate crisis, will be presented and discussed by the editors and some of the authors.

PROGRAMME

18 June 2025
WORKSHOP, 3:00-7:00 pm
Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza, San Polo 2765/A, Calle Corner)

19 June 2025
PHOTO PROJECT PRESENTATIONS AND FILM SCREENINGS, 1:00-7:00 pm 
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Campo San Samuele 3231)

For more information, please download the program.

Language

The event will be held in English

Organized by

Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani and Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi – Pinault Collection, DFBC, NICHE

Link

https://www.pinaultcollection.com/palazzograssi/en/fluid-geographies-reconsidering-notion-border-contemporary-art

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