The Ist Congress of the Spectral Institutions

3rd-4th of June, 2011, UNAgaleria, Bucharest

Participating institutions: The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, The Blind Museum (Veda Popovici) Kunstahlle Batistei & ParadisGaraj (Claudiu Cobilanschi), PARApolice (Arnold Schlachter), The Presidential Candidacy, The Department of Art in Public Space (Raluca Voinea, E-cart.ro), The Museum of Modest Art of the Apartment – MAMA.

Participating theorists: Corina Lucia Apostol, Irina Costache, Matei Demetrescu, Simina Neagu.


3rd of June

11:00 Intro
Veda Popovici. Welcome to the Ist Congress of the Spectral Institutions
11:30
Simina Neagu. Institutional Critique in the East?
12:30
ParadisGaraj. The Lost Paradise. (film)
13:30
Corina Lucia Apostol. Post(modernism) between East and West: the Institutionalization of Romanian Artists on the Global Market.
15:00
The Presidential Candidate. The Limits of Depression, what remains to be when the postspectacle has been integrated?

4th of June

11:00
Arnold Schlachter. About security and private polices.
12:00
Matei Demetrescu. About the spectral dimension of authority in contemporary politics: towards a conceptual definition.
Pause
13:30
Irina Costache, Luiza Alecsandru, the Bureau of Melodramatic Research
Workshop: “Institutional futurology: prospections beyond planification”
14:30
Common Space project: institutionalization vs. organization.
Invited: the commuminity around the project. Moderator: Raluca Voinea
16:00
Closing remarks: the Spectral Institution – where to ?