This panel asks how materials, or specific concepts of materiality, determine the creation, perception, decay or restoration of art works through their own temporality. The aim is to see the temporalities of the material in relation to the temporality of the respective artefact or object and also to discuss how these temporal-material relations shape the understanding of what is seen as art. To what extent are concepts of time relevant to certain conceptions of art (such as "supratemporality")? How are concepts of time in art to be understood when questions of materiality are given greater attention?

WEDNESDAY
5 JULY 2023

14:30-15:00 | Check-In

15:00-15:30 | Opening

Welcome
Director General Achim Bonte, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Directors Andrew James Johnston & Anita Traninger, EXC TC

Introduction
Karin Gludovatz & Matthias Warstat, EXC TC

PANEL 1: GENESIS, DECAY AND RECYCLING

15:30-16:30 | Gesture and the Jump of Flesh

Rebecca Schneider, Brown University
Response: Torsten Jost, EXC TC

16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 | The Temporality of Things and Their Obstinacy: How to Deal with the Uncontrollability of Material Change over Time

Hans Peter Hahn, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Response: Simon Godart, EXC TC

18:00-19:00 | The Traveling Torso

Anna Degler, EXC TC
Response: Yvonne Albers, EXC TC

19:00 | Reception