The NABA Department of Visual Arts and the University of Paris 8 present the open lecture "Ecosophy. Art, society, landscape" that will be held on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at the Aula Magna Spazio Elastico - Amaranto Building, starting at 10.30 am and concluding with a lecture by Marc Augé at 5.30 pm.
The ecosophy investigates the phenomena of artistic expression in a system of relations between space, time and subject of modernity. The aesthetic becoming meets the thought of Félix Guattari and André Gorz in an environmental variation which flows from the individual level to that more properly theoretical and so political, to the concept of landscape, in the sense indicated by Marc Augé, as an area dematerialized from an excess  of virtualization, which indicates the lack of human and environmental relations.
The conference is a collaboration between the NABA Department of Visual Arts with the Université Paris 8, UFR Arts in Paris, and intends to put on the field knowledge and subjectivity to explore new paths of research on social ecology and art, placing the current artistic issues, its practices and theories, in the broader relationship between cultural production, politics and society.

Program
10.30 am:
Introduces and moderates: Marco Scotini (NABA)
Intervene: Roberto Barbanti (Paris8), Elisabetta Bianchessi (NABA, Politecnico di Milano)
Silvia Bordini (La Sapienza, Roma), Ubaldo Fadini (Università di Firenze), Philippe Nys (Université Paris 8, École de Paysage de Versailles e École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris la Villette), Lorraine Verner (École des Beaux-Arts de Versailles e Paris 10), Tiziana Villani (NABA).


5.30 pm:
Lectio Magistralis by Marc Augé.
Marc Augé, ethnologist and anthropologist, yet directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, which has long been the President, after having contributed to the development of the Africanist disciplines, he has developed an anthropology of the plurality of the contemporary worlds sensitive to the ritual dimention of everyday life and modernity. He also focused his attention on a series of contemporary experiences that cross urban design, contemporary art forms and literary expression.

For more information see the program in this page.

Photo credits: Bert Theis, Aggloville, 2007.