You’re Not Making Ecological Art Yet - Timothy Morton

Heimspekingurinn Timothy Morton er gestur myndlistardeildar Listaháskóla Íslands og Heimspekistofnunar Háskóla Íslands. Af því tilefni verður haldið málþing í Safnahúsinu við Hverfisgötu þann 2. febrúar 2018. Málþingið fer fram á ensku.

Philosopher Timothy Morton is a visiting lecturer of The Department of Fine Art at The Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Iceland. He will speak at a seminar in the Culture House, Reykjavik, February 2nd 2018.

Program
13.30 Intro: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Dean, Department of Fine Art, IAA

13.45 Keynote:
„You're Not Making Ecological Art Yet“
Timothy Morton, Philosopher and Professor of English, Rice University

14.30 Break

14.50 Panel discussion:
Timothy Morton, Philosopher and Professor of English, Rice University
Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir, Writer
Björn Þorsteinsson, Professor of Philosophy, UI
Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir, Professor of Philosophy, UI
Ole Sandberg, Doctoral Student of Philosophy, UI

Q&A

16.30 End of the Event

Timothy Morton: „One can’t “make” ecological art, in the sense of doing something radically different from what is happening now, for the precise and ironic reason that everything one does is already an expression of one’s symbiotic coexistence with a host of lifeforms in a biosphere. Thinking ecological art requires that we change what we mean when we say “make.” This talk is about that.“

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory in 2014 and has collaborated with Björk, Haim Steinbach and Olafur Eliasson. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), eight other books and 160 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Blog: http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/