The Holberg Symposium 2016: Art in Life / Life in Art

How does life enter into the formal structure of works of art and literature? How do those works enter into the life of their own and future times? All works of art encode histories of longing or derision. These histories are easily forgotten. If a work is sufficiently powerful and compelling, it survives the forgetting, intriguing or moving its audiences in ways that the artist who created the work in the first place could only have dimly apprehended. This capacity to survive amnesia is part of art’s fascination. New historicism emerged from a desire to investigate the lost or hidden circumstances that governed a work’s creation and that may, even when now forgotten, have left their marks. It emerged as well from an interest in the cultural and historical motives that condition the investigation in the present. PROGRAM 01:30 Welcome by Professor Sigmund Grønmo, Chair of the Holberg Board 05:48 Opening remarks by Professor Ellen Mortensen, Academic Director of the Holberg Prize. 14:00 Introduction by Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt 23:58 Professor Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University: "Symbiosis of Nature and Art. A Neomanneristic Approach" 49:00 Professor Joseph Koerner, Harvard University: “Enemy Painting” 01:12:49 Professor Pippa Skotnes, University of Cape Town: "The Visible Elsewhere" 01:35:19 Professor and Provost Homi Bhabha, Harvard University: "Processional Ethics" 02:29:19 Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer: "On Distraction" 02:54:06 Professor Sarah Cole, Columbia University: "Art in War and War in Art" 03:18:05 Professor Louis Menand, Harvard University: "What Are We Looking At…" 03:46:26 Daniel Jütte, Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and at the Institute for Advanced Study: "Living Stones and the Anatomy of Architecture" See abstracts, speaker presentations and more details about the event here: https://holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-symposium-2016-art-life-life-art