Program overview of the Port Journey Meeting

Thursday, September 15th 2016

18.00   Welcome Reception of the Port Journey Annual Meeting 2016

20.00   Exhibition Opening

„The Shape Of Things To Come“
with:
Reham Sharbaji
(Amman/Jordan)
Klaske Oenema (Groningen/Netherlands)
Jaime Ibanez (Groningen/Netherlands)
Tim Schwartz (Los Angeles/USA)

 

FriDAY, September 16 2016

9:30 am                Tracing Hyper Passages  / Guided Tours through Hamburg

Within small groups, the tours will follow different hypercultural paths through Hamburg, each one hosted by an artist, curator, or thinker from Hamburg. Similarities of places, art spaces, contents, and persons will become hyperlinked and experienceable. Each group will make a video, which is going to be presented in the evening.

Trace ONE               TWO STREETS

Michael Olokodana (Nigeria), printer and  Till Krause, artist, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

Trace TWO             Looking For Changes / Revisiting Tour

Ute Vorkoeper – artist, author, curator
missing icons | Knobloch + Vorkoeper | Hamburg + Düsseldorf

Trace THREE         Government Versus Society = Art

Jan Derk Diekema – artist, activist and director of HaViK (Groningen, NL)
(In English, registration required, limited number of participants!)

18:00    Hyper Passengers Cooking

Participants will put their own cultural background on the table at the Cooking Session in the evening. Flavors from all over the world will blend into something new. Already proven successful: Bavarian Leberkaes with korean Kimchi. (Registration required, limited number of participants!)

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Zou-no-hana Terrace /Yokohama, Halcyon Art Center/Shanghai,
The Periscope Project/San Diego, Forum Box/Helsinki, Frame/Finnland, HaVic/Groningen, Spring Sessions/Amman, Kling og Bang/ Reykjavík

09:30
Introduction – Michael Kress – artist, chairman of FRISE

09:40
Welcome Words – Julia Dautel – Ministry of Culture Hamburg International Cultural Exchange

09:50
Welcome Words – Tsutomu Okada – chief curator, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokio / artistic director, Zou-No-Hana Terrace, Yokohama

10:00
Connecting Doubts – Philosophical Introduction
Dr. Heidi Salaverríaphilosopher, Hamburg

10:30
GoBeyond 2020 – Yoshie Ota – chief curator, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokio

11:00
Wonder Over Knowing – James Enos – assistant professor of architecture, NewSchool of Architecture & Design, San Diego

11:30
Introduction to Gallery Forum Box – Alina Mänttäri-Buttler – executive director, Forum Box, Finland

12:00
Let’s talk about Groningen!  – Jan Derk Diekema, artist, director of HaViK, NL

12:30  
Lunch – »Der Juwelier des Ostens«

13:30 
Frame – Contemporary Art Finland  – Anna Virtanen – program coordinator, Frame, Helsinki

13:45 
The Museum industry into the 3rd Millennium – Evelyn Wang – curator,  Halcyon Art China, Shanghai, China

14:15
Spring Session: An alternative response to arts and culture in Amman
Reham Sharbaji, artist , Spring Session, Amman, Jordan

14:45
Kling & Bang: The local and traveling platform for artists
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir – artist, professor, Iceland Art Academy, co-founder of Kling & Bang, Reykjavík

15:15  COFFEE BREAK

15:45
Social Interventions- Filomeno Fusco – artist, Hamburg

16:15
Hamburg Port Hydrarchy – Investigations into Radical Seafaring and Informal Seatrade – geheimagentur – Hamburg

16:45
The Silent University, Hamburg – Marenka Krasomil – social scientist, curator and coordinator, The Silent University, Hamburg
Salah Zater – journalist and lecturer of The Silent University

17:15  SHORT BREAK

17:30 Conclusion
Nina Groß – art historian, curator and Raphael Dillhof – art historian, curator

18:00  
Open table Talk
20:00
DINNER »Der Juwelier des Ostens«  (Jeweler of the East)

Registration required by email.
(in English, registration requested )

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Port Journey Network internal Meeting (nonpublic)