Panel 4: Petals of Power: Capital, Coloniality, and Decolonial Art Practices
10:00–10:30 Uhr: Sabine Flach: “Botanical Decolonisation. Art, Colonialism and the Politics of Planting in the Works of Precious Okoyomon, Otobong Nkanga and Rashid Johnson”
10:30–11:00 Uhr: Anita Hosseini: “Capitalist Blooms: Digital Gaze, Floral Desire, and Colonial Continuities”
11:00–11:30 Uhr: Katrin Nahidi: “Decolonial Blossoms: Perspectives on Nature and Art in the Works of Parvaneh Etemadi and Jinoos Taghizadeh”
11:30–12:00 Uhr: Discussion
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
Panel 5: From Bloom to Thorn: Sound, Modernism, and Artistic Roses
13:30–14:00 Uhr: Julian Blunk: “Sleeping Beauty: On the Aesthetic, Historical and Political Dimensions of Thorns and Roses”
14:00–14:30 Uhr: Susanne Kogler: “Listening to Flowers or How New Music Gets to Bloom”
14:30–15:00 Uhr: Artist talk with Joiri Minaya: “Destabilizing Representations of an Imagined Tropical Identity”
15:00–15:30 Uhr: Discussion
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:20 Uhr: Intro Cynthia Kok (LACMA, digital lecture) Painting with Shells: Imagining the Global in Dirck van Rijswijck’s Mother-of-Pearl Panels
16:20–17:30 Uhr Roundtable II:
From a Botany of Desire to Keeping up with Questions of Diversity.
Moderated by Katrin Bucher Trantow - Barbara Müller (Museum Schloss Stainz), Katharina Krenn (Museum Schloss Trautenfels), Karl Peitler (Coin Cabinet, Eggenberg), Monika Holzer-Kernbichler (Education Modern and Contemporary Art, Kunsthaus Graz & UMJ)
17:30–18:00 Coffee Break
18:00–19:00 Uhr: Keynote Marcello Di Paola: “From Cute to Obscene: The Blooming of Plant Philosophy”