המחלקה לאמנויות The Department of the Arts Monuments, Site-Specic Sculpture and Urban Space An international symposium honoring the jubilee of Dani Karavan’s Monument to the Negev Brigade Keynote Address: Dani Karavan December 18, 2014 8:30 - 19:30 Sara Tadmor Auditorium, Deichmann Building for Community Action, Marcus Family Campus Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva The symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition 50 Years to the Negev Monument / 50 Years to Dani Karavan's Public Art, at The Negev Museum of Art. 8:30 - 9:00 Gathering Katya Evan, Kreitman School of Advanced 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome remarks Graduate Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev “The Monument in the Expanded Field of 9:15-10:55 Session 1 Minimalism – the Case of Dani Karavan's Itineraries: Site and the City Monument to the Negev Brigade” Chair: Prof. Haim Finkelstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Vincent Marquis, Courtauld Institute of Art “Thomas Hirschhorn’s Monuments and the Shelley Hornstein, Architectural History & Politics of Public Space” Visual Culture, York University (Toronto) “Overfed and Undernourished: Cultural 12:45-14:00 Lunch at BGU Cartographies of Memory” 14:00-15:15 Tour of the Negev Monument Naomi Meiri-Dann & Shmulik Meiri, Sapir 15:15-16:55 Session 3 Academic College and Bezalel Academy of Arts Processes of Memory and the Negotiation of Memorials “When a Site-Specic Monument Meets an Chair: Prof. Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University Un-Specic Site” of the Negev Adachiara Zevi, President of the Bruno Zevi Valentine von Fellenberg, University of Lausanne Foundation, President of the Cultural “Metamorphoses of Memorials” Association “Art in Memory” Moran Pearl, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “A Ubiquitous Memorial” “Processing Memory: Counter-Monument and Seth Adam Hindin, the Oxford Research Centre Site Specic” in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford Lea David, University of Haifa “Site-Specifc Sculpture in Pre-Modern Central "Mnemonic Battles Surrounding the Monument Europe: 'Roland' in Bremen and Beyond” to the Fallen of the Wars of the 1990s in Belgrade: 11:00-11:15 Coee break No-One's Memories and a Monument to No-One" 11:15-12:45 Session 2 16:55-17:15 Coee break Visual Language and Memory 17:15-18:15 Keynote address, Dani Karavan Chair: Prof. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Chair: Dr. Dalia Manor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Director and Chief Curator of the Giuliana Altea & Antonella Camarda, Negev Museum of Art University of Sassari, Italy “Formal Autonomy versus Public Participation: 18:15-19:30 Tour of the Negev Museum of Art: The Modernist Monument in Costantino Negev Monument Exhibition, guided by Nivola’s Work” Dr. Dalia Manor, Director and Chief Curator of the Negev Museum of Art.