(Venue: Lecture Theatre E22, Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF)
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
09:00-09:50_Registration
09:50-10.00_Welcome
10:00-11:20_Session One
Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul & Carl Mika, “Generating Space with Silences”
Paolo Vincenzo Genovese & Yuanyuan Wang, “The ‘Presence’ of the Silence: Oriental and Occidental”
Simone Shu-Yeng Chung, “Rites to Repose”
11:20-11:35_Coffee Break
11:35-12:55_Session Two
Anthony Schrag, “The Quiet Body”
Eve Olney, “A Near Silent Encounter”
Steve Bates, “A Weird Listening: Hallucination and Silence”
12:55-14:00_Lunch Break
14:00-15:00_Keynote Speaker: Gernot Böhme
15:00-15:15_Coffee Break
15:15-16:35_Session Three
Ben Cope, “Visaginas: the Silence of a Post-Nuclear Town”
Yuri, Boyanin, “Utopia in Ruins: Visual and Sound Narratives of Communism in Kyrgyzstan”
Nerma Cridge, “Drawing Silence: ‘Project 505’ and Objekat <<<Arc>>>”
16:35 – 16:50_Coffee Break
16:50-18:10 _Session Four
Carolina Dayer, “On Becoming Petrified: the Role of Stupor in Carlo Scarpa’s Erotic Drawing Practice”
Phuong-Trâm Nguyen, “Anamorphosis: an Interval in the Body”
Tiago Torres-Campos, “Silence in the Middle Ground: Aesthetic Immersion in the Geologic”
18:30-19:30 Wine Reception & Opening of the Exhibition “Silence, Narrative and the Intimacy of the City”(Venue: Sculpture Court Balcony, Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF)
The exhibition presents some of the results of a series of workshops on Urban Emptiness and Silence held in Edinburgh, Athens and Brussels in the context of the actions of Urban Emptiness International Network (http://urbanemptiness.org/).
Thursday, 23 June 2016
09:50-11:10_Session Five
Aikaterini Antonopoulou, “Urban Silence and Information Noise: a Study of Athens’ Invisible Structures”
Elen Flūgge & Conor McCafferty, “Politics of Silence and Public Policy: ‘Quiet Areas’ in Belfast”
Amy Kulper, “The Silent Present: The Contemporary Atmosphere of Architectural Historiography”
11:10-11:25_Coffee Break
11:25-12:45_Session Six
Ross Jenner, “Making Silence: Iberian Modes of Emptiness”
Jonathan Foote, “The Silence Michelangelo: Meditations on the Beating Hammer”
Manuela Antoniu, “Between the Lines”
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:45_ Keynote Speaker: Mark Dorrian
14:45-15:00_Coffee Break
15:00-16:20_Session Seven
Hannah Paveck, “Textures of Silence in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail (1999)”
Daniel Naegele, “Silence in 1967”
Glyn Davis, “The Silence of the Museum: Cinema and Taxidermy”
16:20-16:35_Coffee Break
16:35-17:55_Session Eight
Stephen Kite, “Louis Kahn: the Crossing of Silence and Shadow”
Cruz López-Viso, “Barragán on Silence:. Transparency, Time, Substance and Eclipses”
Susana Ventura, “Through an Intensive Architecture: the Composition of Silence as an Architectonic Sensation”
17:55-18:10_Coffee Break
18:10-19:10_ Keynote Speaker: Paul Carter
19:30_Dinner (Venue: Spoon Café Bistro, 6A Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DH)
Friday, 24 June 2016
09:45-10:50_Session Nine
Louise Pelletier, “Silence Please!”
Dagmar Weston, “Silence and Mood as Attunement with the World in the Metaphysical Painting of Giorgio de Chirico”
10:50-11:05_Coffee Break
11:05-12:25_Session Ten
Xiang Ren, “Listening to the Hui Ancestral Hall: Architecture of Silence and Absent Narratives”
Dimitra Ntzani, “From Theatrical Silence to Labyrinthine: in Search of Critical Engagement with Cultural Heritage”
Hennie Reynders, “Silence as Reflective and Critical Gesture”
12:25-13:25_Lunch Break
13:25-14:45_Session Eleven
Christos Kakalis, “Hot Air Balloon Movements to Stillness: Uplifting Atmospherics and the Architecture of Flight”
Leonidas Koutsoumpos, “Better than Words: Wittgenstein on Silence and Showing in Ethics and Architecture”
Jason O’Shaughnessy, “Lingering Late Words…Silences…Delayed Space in Hejduk and Beckett’s Purgatoria”
14:45-15:00_Coffee Break
15:00-16:00_Keynote Speaker: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
16:00: Close
