Grinm Network Conference 2019 Experiences with Gender and Diversity in New Music
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GRiNM Network Conference 2019 Experiences with Gender and Diversity in New Music 14.-16. Nov 2019 A 3-day conference exploring solutions to gender and diversity issues in European contemporary music institutions. GRiNM Network Conference 2019 The GRINM Network Conference 2019 will bring together a variety of initiatives focusing on diversity and gender issues in contemporary music in Europe. In the course of our activism, we have seen both how such initiatives are crucial to the con- tinued existence of the field, and how large-scale projects in schools, universities, music venues, and festivals are already underway. Despite this wealth of knowledge and experience, The GRiNM Network Support and Cooperation Conference 2019: Experiences OnCurating e.V. there has until now been little examination of the goals or results with Gender and Diversity Mariann Steegmann Stiftung of these projects, something we now intend to change. The fo- in New Music is a cooperation SONART Swiss between Gender Relations in Fachstelle Gleichstellung und cus of our conference will thus be on bringing together people New Music (GRiNM) and the Diversity, Zurich University already working in this field to share their outcomes, experiences, Institute for Critical Theory, of the Arts Department of Cultural Analysis, and insights. Through keynotes, music, presentations, and most Zurich University of the Arts. of all through discussion, our goal is to contribute to establishing © 2019 Zurich University a discourse around these issues across the contemporary music of the Arts community. Printed in Switzerland Gender Relations in New Music http://conference.grinm.org Graphic Design: Laura Weber 3 TIMETABLE Day 1 / 3 THURSDAY 14.11.19 until 11:00 Arrival of Delegates Q 11:00 Registration, Coffee 12:00 Speed Meet Activity k Aktionsraum (5.K06) (for participants only) 13:00 Introduction/ Keynote 1 k Aktionsraum (5.K06) Welcome: Christoph Weckerle (ZHdK/ DKV)/ Brandon Farnsworth Keynote: Anke Charton (University of Vienna) 14:30 Presentations of Individual Projects (30 minute-slots, 10 minutes for questions/ changing speakers) Presentation 1 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) 15:10 Irena Müller-Brozovic, Sandeep Bhagwatti Anja Wernicke (FHNW Basel) (Concordia University Montreal) Presentation 2 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) 15:50 Christina Lessiak Elizabeth Treydte (Archiv (KUG Graz) Frau und Musik Frankfurt) Presentation 3 k Room 1 (5.K01) 16:30 Anna Jackobsson, Rosanna Gunnarsson for Konstmusiksystrar (Installation + Presentation) 17:10 Coffee Break k Kaskadenfoyer 17:45 Presentation by Gender Relations in New Music k Aktionsraum (5.K06) Presentation & Moderated Discussion Session Members of Gender Relations in New Music 18:45 Apero Riche, together with members of SONART SWISS k Jazzklub Mehrspur 20:00 Concert k Jazzklub Mehrspur Neo Hülcker (DE), Stellan Velloce (DE/ IT), Klara Andersson (SE) 4 5 Day 2 / 3 FRIDAY 15.11.19 Day 3 / 3 SATURDAY 16.11.19 09:00 Coffee 10:00 Coffee 10:00 Keynote 2 k Aktionsraum (5.K06) 10:30 Keynote 3 k Aktionsraum (5.K06) Speaker: Susanne van Els in cooperation with Camilla Overgaard Speaker: Christina Scharff (King‘s College London) (Royal Welsh Conservatoire of Music/ Royal Academy of 11:45 Discussion Session 3 Music Aarhus) k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) Discussion Session 1: Speculative Design Discussions “6 Chairs” discussion Discussion: “ways to express session femaleness/ otherness in and 11:00 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) through music” Thørbjorn Tonder Hansen Serge Vuile (Contrechamps led by Julia Eckhardt (Ultima Festival Oslo) Geneva) 13:15 Lunch 11:45 Dahlia Borsche (DAAD) Julia Eckhardt (Q-02 Brussels) Presentations of Individual Projects 12:30 Lunch Presentation 1 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) Presentations of Individual Projects 14:30 Gina Emmerson Brian Current (NMC Toronto) Presentation 1 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) (HfMT Hamburg) 13:50 Sophie Vögele Patricia Felber Rufer Presentation 2 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) (Zurich University of the Arts) (Zurich University of the Arts) 15:15 Nina Noeske Theresa Beyer (Norient CH) Presentation 2 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) (HfMT Hamburg) 14:30 Luisa Santacesaria, Monika Żyła (Paris Lodron Presentation 3 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) Valentina Bertolani University of Salzburg) 15:45 Lona Gaikis (Academy Global Musics Network Initiative (CuratingDiversity.org) of Fine Art Vienna) Presentation 3 k Room 1 (5.K01) k Room 2 (5.K03) 16:30 Final Discussion k Aktionsraum (5.K06) 15:10 Lucien Danzien, Stellan Velloce, (all participants) Evelyn Saylor (FEM*_MUSIK*_, UdK Berlin) 17:30 Conference Ends, Delegates travel home Q 16:00 Coffee Break k Kaskadenfoyer 16:30 Discussion Session 2 Breakout Groups based on conference themes so far, presentations of group findings to plenum 19:00 Conference Dinner 6 (for participants only) 7 CONNECTIONS & MAPS 0 L Li imm mm at at 1e stra sse 1 Pfin Toni-Areal gstw eid e str k as c se ü r b d r a H Zürich Hardbrücke 1 Zurich University of the Arts 1c Kaskadenfoyer (ZHdK) 5 Pfingstweidstrasse 96 1d Aktionsraum (5.K06) CH-8005 Zurich Zürich Tram 4 “Toni-Areal” 1e Mehrspur Club Hauptbahnhof1a 1c The Mehrspur Club is located just 1a Room 1 (5.K01) outside the ZHdK, underneath the 1d 1b entrance to the delivery ramp. 1b Room 2 (5.K03) 8 9 PARTICIPANTS ANJA WERNICKE She studied at the universities of BAPTISTE GRANDGIRARD BRANDON FARNSWORTH Hochschule für Musik FHNW Leipzig, Bologna and Berkeley AEC Diversity, Identity, Zurich University of the Arts i Interdisziplinarität - and holds a PhD in Theatre Studies Inclusiveness Brandon Farnsworth is a music Migration - Forschung & Praxis from Leipzig University. Her work i Student/ Diversity repre- curator and scholar based in is centered at the intersection of sentation in Conservatoires Anja Wernicke studied Cultural Zurich and Berlin. He completed Performance Studies, Musicology across Europe Studies and Aesthetic Practice at his MA in Transdisciplinary and Gender Studies; recent pu- the University of Hildesheim as Baptiste is a saxophone and recorder Studies at the Zurich University blications include papers on well as Cultural Mediation of Art player from France and a student of the Arts in 2015, and his BA migration, agency and queerness at the University of Provence in at the CESMD Pôle Aliénor in in Music Performance in 2013. and the historicity of gendered voice Marseille. Since 2013 she lives in Poitiers. He became involved in His dissertation in musicology aesthetics. Basel and works among other things the AECStrengthening Music in with the title “Curating Festivals as managing director and production Society project in 2018, as a member for Contemporary Music” will manager for the festival ZeitRäume ANNA JAKOBSSON of both the student working group be completed at the Hochschule Basel as well as scientific assistant Konstmusiksystrars (Sisters and the ‘Diversity, Identity and für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in the research department of the in Contemporary Music) Inclusiveness’ working group. He is Dresden in 2019. University of Music FHNW in Basel. i Gender equality for involved in many ways in the student In 2018 she completed the part- composers representation of his institution, BRIAN CURRENT time continuing education course trying to debate wherever he goes Anna Jakobsson is an artist- NMC Toronto (CA) “curating in the scenic arts” at the across Europe from his subjects of researcher, stage-director, and University of Salzburg. She also predilections. Brian Current studied music at producer based in Stockholm. works as a music theater dramaturge. McGill University and UC Berkeley. Her practice expands over the His music, lauded and broadcast in fields of contemporary per- BASTIAN ZIMMERMANN over 35 countries, has been awarded ANKE CHARTON formance, opera, and theatre and Positionen Magazine a Guggenheim Fellowship, the University of Vienna is distinguished by an interest i Editor, dramaturg and curator Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music i Historiography & (un) in feminine narratives and non- in music and performance (USA), the Italian Premio Fedora gendered vocality hierarchical working methods. Bastian Zimmermann is one of for Chamber Opera and a Selected Since 2017 she is the creative Anke Charton is Assistant Professor the co-editors of the magazine Work (under 30) at the International producer of Konstmusiksystrar of Theatre with the Department of Positionen. He often works as Rostrum of Composers in Paris. (Sisters in Contemporary music). Theatre, Film and Media Studies at a dramaturg for musical-performative Brian Current’s pieces have been the University of Vienna. settings and curates the series Music programmed by all major symphony for Hotel Bars. 10 11 orchestras in Canada and by dozens CHRISTINA LESSIAK CHRISTINA SCHARFF DAHLIA BORSCHE of professional orchestras, ensembles University of Music and King’s College London DAAD Artist-in-Residency and opera companies world-wide. Performing Arts Graz/ i Inequalities and precarious Program, Berlin He is in demand as a guest conductor Centre for Gender Studies labour in the classical music i Head of Music (DAAD Arists- and regularly leads orchestral i Composing, feminism, profession In-Residence Programme) programs of contemporary music. autoethnography, artistic Dr. Christina Scharff is Senior Dahlia Borsche is a musicologist and research Lecturer in Culture, Media and curator. In 2019, she became Head CAMILLA OVERGAARD Christina Lessiak (BA, MA), born in Creative Industries at King’s College of Music at the DAAD Artist-In- AEC/ Royal Academy of Music Klagenfurt, is a musicologist, pop- London. Her research interests are Residence program. Dahlia Borsche Aarhus musician, songwriter, event engineer, in gender, media, and culture with has been active as a promoter, DJ, i Working with songwriting and and cultural worker. She has studied a focus on engagements with fe- coordination manager, and producer social entrepreneurship Musicology and Interdisciplinary minism and the politics of creative (CTM Festival Berlin, Labor Gender Studies at the Karl Franzens work.