Carnival in the Eye of the Storm
War / Art / New Technologies: KOSOV@

Kosovo /Kosova has been referred to here as Kosov@ in the attempt to retain both the "o" and "a" characters used in both (Serbian and Albanian) spellings

A PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (this program will change) Conference

Where:

• NW Cultural Neighborhood Center (April 14th, 15th)
• Pacific NW College of Art (April 16th)
• NW Film Center GUILD THEATER (April 14/15/16)

Friday April 14th:

NOON

• Video clip by HALLIE O'BRIEN KELLY and JAMIE SCHULTZ
• Introduction by TREBOR SCHOLZ

12:30 pm

• RENATA SALECL "The Art of War and the War of Art"
  Renata Salecl is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After the Fall of Socialism (Routledge, 1994) and (Per)versions of Love and Hate (Verso, 1998). She co-edited (with Slavoj Zizek) Gaze and Voice as Love Objects (Duke UP, 1996) and is the editor of Sexuation (Duke UP, 2000).

1:00 pm

• KATJA DIEFENBACH "NATIONAL DISCO."
  Mapping Popular Nationalism in Serbian Subculture, A Comparison: Serbia- Germany" author, berlin journalist at jungle world, left-wing political and cultural weekly co-editor of sechste hilfe, magazine for the service-proletariat member of bookshop and publisher house collectif b_books (publishing titles on feminism, poststructuralism, media and marxism) journalist at spex, music magazine texts on netcriticism, on poststructuralism, especially work of gilles deleuze and felix guattari, on subculture and politics and in recent times on nato's postcolonial war in yugoslavia and genealogy of popular nationalism in serbia.

1:30 pm- 2:00 pm

• Break
• Slide Show

2:00 pm- 2:10 pm

• A representative from Mercy Corps International, a Portland-based aid agency that has worked in Kosovo since 1993, will be on hand to discuss the ongoing relief and recovery efforts in Kosovo.

2:10 pm

• GLENN BOWMAN "Art and Politics in Serbia Aesthetic responses to the war in Kosov@"
  Glenn Bowman is an anthropologist at Kent University, Canterbury (UK) publications include:
  Constitutive Violence and Rhetoric of Identity: A Comparative Study of Nationalist Movements in the Israeli-Occupied Territories and Former Yugoslavia". Scheduled for publication in Social Anthropology in 2000. "Xenophobia, Fantasy and the Nation: The Logic of Ethnic Violence in Former Yugoslavia", pp. 143-171 in Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boundaries in Conflict

2:30 pm

• Plan A, Plan B Art, Activism / Non-Activism in Recent European Wars:
  Under Consideration of the "New Communication Technologies" by FLORIAN ZEYFANG is a German artist/ video maker who has done research into the field of representation as related to digital technologies and to video/ TV; as well as on art and politics in the internet. He has shown in Europe and the US and published in various magazines. (Shows include: "3D a la main", Bremen 1999, "I Said I Love. That Is The Promise", NY1999, "We Are Somewhere Else (Already)", NY 1998)

3:00 pm

• BRIAN HOLMES "Cities, Spirals, Exhibitions:Artworks in an Urban Frame"
  Brian Holmes is an art critic, translator, and member of the graphic arts collective Ne pas plier in Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from UC Berkeley. Among his recent publications: "On Transnational Civil Society" in ReadMe, filtered by nettime (Autonomedia, 1998).

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

• Panel discussion moderated by Christopher Zinn. Mr. Zinn is executive director, Oregon Council for the Humanities) panel discussion.
  Panel: Glenn Bowman, Boris Buden, Katja Diefenbach, Brian Holmes, Thomas Keenan, Aferdita Kelmendi, Geert Lovink, Renata Salecl, Trebor Scholz, Henrik Schrat, Sislej Xhafa, Florian Zeyfang. NW FILM CENTER, GUILD THEATER

7:00 pm

• "Predictions of Fire" by Michael Benson

9:30 pm

• "The Valley" by Dan Reed

SATURDAY April 15th

11:00 am - Noon

• AFERDITA KELMENDI Director of RTV 21 (www.radio21) Pristina (Kosovo)

Noon - 12:30pm

• Presentation by SISLEJ XHAFA (artist Kosovo/ Pisa, Italy) about his installation "When Memory Becomes Present" in the exhibition at the Feldman Gallery, PNCA .The symbolic absence of the political in the media coverage of the war in Kosov@

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

• THOMAS KEENAN directs the Human Rights Project at Bard College, where he also teaches literary theory and media studies. He has taught previously at SUNY Binghamton and Princeton University. His publications include FABLES OF RESPONSIBILITY (Stanford UP, 1997), two edited volumes on THE END(S) OF THE MUSEUM (Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, 1995), and essays on media, humanitarianism, and war in Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosov@.

1:00 pm - 1:30pm

• GEERT LOVINK "War in the Age of the Internet"
  Activist, Media Theorist, Member of Adilnko (Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge), Co-organizer of Next Five Minures, Co-founder of the international "nettime" circle

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

• Break

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

• BORIS BUDEN is a writer and theorist from Zagreb. He is the editor in chief of Arkzin and presently lives in Vienna, Austria.
• Arkzin

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

• Panel discussion moderated by Prof. Darius Rejali (department of Political Science, Reed College, Portland)
  Panel: Glenn Bowman, Boris Buden, Katja Diefenbach, Brian Holmes, Thomas Keenan, Aferdita Kelmendi, Geert Lovink, Renata Salecl, Trebor Scholz, Henrik Schrat, Sislej Xhafa, Florian Zeyfang. NW Film Center GUILD THEATER

4:00 pm

• "The Walls of KOSOVO" by Aleksandar Manic

7:00 pm

• "Victim of Geography" by Pictorial Heroes

SUNDAY April 16th

Concurrent Sessions
Pacific NW College of Art
1241 NW Johnson
Portland, OR 97209
10:00am- 12:00

ROOM 201-
Aesthetic Responses to War
(Glenn Bowman, Renata Salecl, Aferdita Kelmendi, Florian Zeyfang, Katja Diefenbach)
ROOM 129 Media Coverage of the War in Kosovo
(Thomas Keenan, Boris Buden)
ROOM 128
War in the Age of the Internet

Noon - 1:00 pm

• Break

1:15 pm - 1:40 pm

• Open Discussion about the Exhibition at Feldman Gallery (Glenn Bowman, Boris Buden, Katja Diefenbach, Brian Holmes, Thomas Keenan, Aferdita Kelmendi, Geert Lovink, Renata Salecl, Trebor Scholz, Henrik Schrat, Sislej Xhafa, Florian Zeyfang). NW Film Center/ GUILD THEATER

4:30 pm

• "MACEDONIA: The Next Bosnia?" by Julian Chomet
• "Victim of Geography" by Pictorial Heroes

7:00pm

• "The Valley" (by Dan Reed)

9:00 pm

• "Predictions of Fire" (by Michael Benson)