On March 27 and 28, ECAL Master Fine Arts presents a 2-days symposium: The Raving Age. Histories and figures of youth.
The symposium is organized as part of the research project The Raving Age. Histories and Figures of Youth, that questions what has come of youth – a conceptual, aesthetic, and political figure that was born with modernity – in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities.
Conversely, the project addresses what the problematic category of “youth” has brought about in contemporary art and thought and seeks to grasp it as an allegory that will help rethink the “contemporary” through its most lively milieu.
These two study days will explore the manifold dimensions of the concept of “youth” as strategic sites to engage with the politics of time and the aesthetic categories of our age.
Day 1 will take place in French, Day 2 in English. The Q&A sessions of both days will take place in French and English.
9.30am: Welcome coffee
10am: Introduction
10.30am: L'innocence de l'oeil et le bonhomme-têtard. Esthétisation et épistémisation des dessins d'enfant au XIXe et au XXe siècle, Tristan Garcia
12am: Lunch break
13.30am: Extra Life, screenings and conversation with Gisèle Vienne
3pm: Break
3.30pm: Anabases, screenings and conversation with Éric Baudelaire
5pm: Conclusion and apéro
8pm: Screening of Jerk (2021) and conversation with Gisèle Vienne at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne. For interested students, discounted tickets will be available at the theater.
09.30am: Younger than you: talking with post-future adolescents, Federico Campagna
11am: Break
11.30am: “Youth Music”, ageism and the politics of time, Guillaume Heuguet
1pm: Lunch break
2pm: Pop Hardcore: why did pop become so extreme?, Julie Ackermann followed by Immaterial forever: representations of queer adolescence through the hyperpop Community, Lorenzo Benzoni & Luca Frati
4pm: Conclusion
The Raving Age. Histories and Figures of Youth is a research project supported by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.
www.theravingage.com
Concept and organization
Philippe Azoury, Stéphanie Moisdon, Vincent Normand, Shirin Yousefi
More information about the programme and the speakers: master-platform.ch
If you have any question, please contact shirin.yousefi@ecal.ch
Free entry
