International Conference „NATURE – ARTS interconnections”

Conference program

Venue: Mansarda Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Design, 4 Oituz, Timișoara

November 2

08.30-8:45 Participants registration

08.45-9:00 Welcome speech

Camil Mihaescu/ Dean of The Faculty of Arts and Design,West University of Timișoara

09.00-09.30 Keynote lecture

Ileana Pintilie, PhD, Professor/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara

Rediscovering the Nature: Sigma and OHO Groups in the 1970s

09.30-11.30 – Moderator Ileana Pintilie

Ruxandra Dreptu/ Romanian Artists’ Union, Bucharest/ Elements of personal interpretation of the nature by women artists

Marta Wódz/ KU Leuven/ Plant-Ally. Femininity and plants in contemporary art – Analysis and prospect for a model

Marta Espiridião/ FCSH-UNL, Lisbon/ ‘Grass on Women’: natureculture and the bodies of Ana Mendieta

Gabriela Robeci/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Naturing Medar-Ionescu art

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12.00-14.00 – Moderator Andreea Lazea

Ciprian Ciuclea/ Independent artist/ Topological space. The constructed image of a remote territory

Richard Allaway/ Huddersfield University/ Experiences of remoteness: How to [re]experience intimacy

Marisa Merlin/ Independent artist/ Reasons, developments and effects of Land Art projects in reference to the relationship with the environment, the site and its inhabitants. Reflections on the bases of personal artistic Land Art projects

Mihai Ionuț Rusen/ Bucharest National University of Arts/ Metal detecting as contemporary artistic medium for natural environment – artistic research approaches, references and study cases

14.00-15.30  Break

15.30-17.30 – Moderator Gabriela Robeci

Sașa Liviu Stoianovici/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Metaphysical and environmental dimensions of water in the cinema and video art of Tarkovsky, Peleshian and Bill Viola

Maria Sârbu/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Concepts used to describe nature-related art projects since the late 1960s

Andreea Lazea/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Nature and the contemporary sublime

Marius Miclăuș, Cristian Frias/ Archaeus Foundation/ Co-existing with(in) nature. Collaborative creativity in the expanded field

November 3

09.00-09.30 Keynote lecture

István Erőss, Phd, Professor/  Rector of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts

Nature Art

09.30-11.30 – Moderator Maria Sârbu

Vincenzo Cohen/ Platforme Planet Earth/ The ‘Extinction’ collection in the artist’s pictorial production

Claudia Feti/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Humanitarian visual advertising campaign

Mathias Escotto Gadea/ Independent artist, curator, researcher/ IACCA – A necessary dialogue between climate change and art NOW

Renée Renard/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Eco printing for the Ephemeral project at the Young Naturalists’ Resort Timisoara

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12.00-14.00 – Moderator Daniela Catona

Azal Narmon/ Independent researcher/ Matter the matters: Performing naturally in the age of climate change

Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio/ University of Barcelona/ Wounded landscapes: Human intervention into natural ecosystems

Rita Lages Rodrigues, Bárbara Lissa Campos, Maria Vaz/ UFMG – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/ Three Moments of a River

Diana Andreescu/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Cowork15’ – UVT Digital & Green Living Lab

14.00-15.30  Break

15.30-17.30 – Moderator Maria Sârbu

Cristina Ilinca/ Bucharest National University of Arts/ Glass and nature

Gabriel Kelemen/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ Consonant sonic and geometry of nature – Interdisciplinary connections

Nathalie Rodach/ Independent artist/Wood, dead birds, water

Sabina Simon/ Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF-Artes), Rio de Janeiro/ Manifesto Phytoplankton

November 4

09.00-09.30 Keynote lecture

Marilena Preda Sânc , Phd, Professor,  National University of Arts,  Bucharest

 Being with Nature. Alive

09.30-11.30 – Moderator Gabriela Robeci

Daniela Catona/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/, Natural and artificial, sampling and detection

Diana Marincu/ Art Encounters Foundation/ Manufacturing nature / Naturalizing the synthetic

Raluca Oancea/  National University of Arts,  Bucharest/  Becoming landscape. Becoming machine

Răzvan Clondir/  National University of Arts,  Bucharest/  Nature ex Machina – A crowdsourced glimpse of emotional reality

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12.00-14.00 – Moderator Diana Marincu

Andrei Rosetti / Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ NOIMA & Nature – Three ways of being

Anna Petracca/ LabCom – Communication Sciences Research Unit/ Building nature, embodying thoughts: artistic research on the female body and nature

Liliana Mercioiu Popa/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ The space between us – itineraries of cohabitation in the personal artistic activity

Justyna Orlowska/  Independent artist/ Hybrid identity in modern art 

Flavia Bălan/ Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara/ From institution to nature and beyond. New tendencies in Institutional Critique