17.05.09 - Sunday
İSTANBUL MODERN
11:00 - 13:00
PANEL 4 – “The Dancing Wu Li Masters”
Vlemir Abramović, “New Ontology of Time – Physics of Numbers”
Teoman Turgut, Ali Kaya, “Cosmic Dance: The Concept of Time in Physics”
Ivan Pravdić, "Time Design"
14:00 - 16:00
Panel 5 – Temporary Coalitions: A Public Conversation
17.05.09 - Sunday
11:00 - 13:00 Panel 4
"The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
New Ontology of Time - Physics of Numbers
Velimir Abramović
Ontology of Time is a new stage of Human Knowledge where Time is understood as a Being. Time is exactly what was in long history of Metaphysics mistakenly named Non-Being or, in eastern Religions and Philosophies, Nothingness and Emptiness. However, non-spatiality and non-corporeality (the key properties of Non-Being) are not necessarily followed by "non-existence"; Emptiness and Nothingness are relative notions dependent on fullness and something-ness, and are not adequate for what they should signify. This presentation revolves around the question of what Time is, and how it affects the World - Cosmic Laws, Space and Matter - arguing that time is identical with reality itself, and that it is a non-spatial independent substance on which space and matter depend.
Velimir Abramović (1952, Belgrade) wrote his first book, Smeop, which is a collection of poems in 1967. He received an Msci degree from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade in 1983, and finished his doctoral thesis on "The Problem of Continuity in the Natural Philosophy of Leibniz and Boschovich" at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Skopje, Macedonia in 1985. He taught Film Theory at the University of Art (Belgrade) and "Time, Space and Matter Conceptions in natural Sciences" at the University of Belgrade. He founded the scientific magazine Tesliana in 1992 and the private philosophical institution, "Institute for the Science of Time" in 2001 in Sarajevo. He is also the editor of the scientific and philosophical magazine Delphis (Moscow) since 2003.
Time Design
Ivan Pravdić
Although elements of "Time Design" were used in all kinds of arts throughout history, they were most often matters of intuition or even secrecy. Matrix and languages that came out in the process of unveiling these technologies of change can help us to create more subtle and communicative works on all levels of human consciousness: information, thoughts, perceptions and feelings. Motif, motif's time and distance are basic tools for controlling the time-flow. What separates a sign from what is not a sign (something from anything)? How can we track a single motif through a certain structure? How do we distantiate contexts of single motif's appearance in a complex composition?
On the other hand, techniques of "Time Design" unmask the relationship between ritual and consumption; they explain and mobilize identity between body and matter, and codify organic specificities. How can we build up image and start up expression? How do these all influence our consciousness?
In the end of the presentation, I will map out different ways to achieve interactivity: emphatic ride, adventure through an imagined world, ostranenie (defamiliarization), shock and feedback games.
Ivan Pravdić was born in 1975, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is docent at the Arts Academy in Novi Sad. He graduated from the Dramaturgy Department at the Drama Arts Academy in Belgrade and received a Doctorate in Multimedia Arts at the Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Arts in Belgrade. His performances, dramaturgies, poetry and lectures were performed and presented across Europe and USA. The term "Time Design" has been used artistically for the first time in 2002 in a dance piece entitled Crows by Duo Just Organic and after seven years of independent research through dance, theater, performance, site-specific works, videos and public presentation. Time Design has become a practical course at newly established artistic doctoral programmes in Belgrade and Novi Sad.
Cosmic Dance: The Concept of Time in Physics
Teoman Turgut and Ali Kaya
We start with the concept of absolute time, just a parameter to descibe motion in Newtonian physics, and discuss how it merged with the concept of space, the stage at which dynamics takes place. This great merger then in turn revolutionized our perception of time from being just a parameter to a living and evolving concept. This in turn led to Einstein's theory of gravitation, which is the basis of all large scale phenomena in the universe, and necessiates the use of Riemannian geometry abandoning the long-standing belief in Euclidean geometry. We also discuss how quantum physics introduced different time and length scales which in turn explained the validity of separating relevant degrees of freedom for each physical theory.
Teoman Turgut is currently professor of physics at Bogazici University and the director of Feza Gursey Institute. He completed his PhD in University of Rochester, NY and held postdoctoral positions at IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Mittag-Leffler Institute and KTH, Stockholm.
Ali Kaya is currently an associate professor of physics at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Texas A&M University in 2002 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher from 2002-2005 at Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul. He joined the physics department of Bogazici University in 2005.
14:00 - 16:00 Panel 5
Temporary Coalitions: A Public Conversation
Temporary Coalitions: A Public Conversation
Led by Gurur Ertem and Noémie Solomon
In this public meeting, Gurur Ertem and Noémie Solomon convene a discussion with the symposium participants, following three trajectories:across contemporary artistic practices; addressing their logics of production and circulation in the age of globalization; looking closely at choreographic artworks (oeuvres). This public discussion is conceived as an open platform, operating via a relay of questions and answers between the participants and the audience. It aims to generate a shared time within the frame of this symposium in Istanbul; a temporary dynamics of discussion as it relates to contemporary dance, its practices and its implications in the wider artistic and political landscape.
Conference Curators:
Noémie Solomon is a dancer, choreographer and writer working in and around contemporary performance. She holds a Maîtrise and a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies in Dance Studies from Université Paris-8, and is currently a PhD Candidate in the department of Performance Studies at New York University. Recently, she worked as choreographer and assistant to the director in the re-doing of Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 parts. Her writing and translation work have been published in numerous journals in Europe and North America.
Gurur Ertem is the artistic director of iDANS Festival. She holds a BA in Sociology from Istanbul Bogazici University, MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and MA in Sociology from New School University (New York). She is currently working on her PhD thesis in Sociology at the New School University, as well as working as a dramaturge in several projects. She teaches sociology of the body and dance.
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