13:00-18:00: Academic sessions
18:00-20:00: Drinks reception/guided tours of Strategy Get Arts locations
Academic sessions
An academic symposium in which six specialist speakers present recent art historical research on Joseph Beuys and his works.
The full programme with abstracts and further information on the speakers is available as a download:
© University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland
The speakers will be:
Dr Victoria Walters. Associate Lecturer, University of the West of England, Bristol. Published Joseph Beuys and the Celtic Wor(l)d: a language of healing.
Dr Kirsten Claudia Voigt. Curator at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Wrote her Ph.D. on Beuys’s ‘sculptural pictures’ and recently wrote a book on Beuys and Nietzsche.
Dr Peter van der Meijden. Project Researcher at the National Gallery of Denmark and an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. He wrote his Ph.D. on Fluxus and has since published and spoken widely about various aspects of Fluxus.
Andrew Symons. Ph.D. candidate, Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (National Galleries of Scotland). Currently researching the Beuys drawings in the ARTIST ROOMS collection.
Dr Wolfgang Zumdick. Senior Lecturer at the Social Sculpture Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University. Writes extensively on Beuys and Social Sculpture.Chaired by Dr. Christian Weikop, Chancellor’s Fellow in History of Modern and Contemporary German Art, Edinburgh College of Art.
Prof Dr Christa Lerm-Hayes. Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Amsterdam. Until 2014 Professor of Iconology at the University of Ulster, Belfast. Has written and lectures extensively on Beuys and James Joyce.
Drinks reception and guided tours
There will be a drinks reception in the evening from 18:00-20:00 with optional 15-minute guided tours of some of the rooms where the ‘Strategy: Get Arts’ exhibition and performances were held in 1970. Tours by artist Alex Hamilton, who was a student helper at the exhibition. There will also be a slide show, a film and sound recordings of Beuys’s 1970 actions in Edinburgh.
Organised by the
University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh College of Art in association with the
National Galleries of Scotland,
Gallery of Modern Art and supported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
This symposium compliments the round table discussion
"Artists’ Recollections of Joseph Beuys in Edinburgh" on Wednesday 12 October 2016 at Playfair Library, Edinburgh.
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