AGxKANSAI 2022 Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century After ARAKAWA+GINS

Date: March 11–15, 2022 Venue: Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan
(on-site and online)

Roundtable with Pre-Recorded Talks (E/J)
Another Kind of Knowing

Japanese session with English translation

Introduction

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Don Byrd, "A Radical Reordering (of, well, Everything): Notes toward a Book to be entitled, 'Another Way of Knowing'"

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[reference materials]
A Radical Reordering (of, well, Everything): Notes toward a Book to be entitled, Another Way of Knowing

Alan Prohm, "On Procedural Architecture and Efficacy in the Work of Arakawa and Gins"

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[reference materials]
On Procedural Architecture and Efficacy in the Work of Arakawa and Gins

Jondi Keane, "How-to Know-how: The Taskings and Askings of Arakawa and Gins towards the Realisation of Living"

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[reference materials] *updated 03/12
How-to Know-how: The Taskings and Askings of Arakawa and Gins towards the Realisation of Living

The three members of the panel, in the context of a book they are writing together, will discuss the work of Arakawa and Gins as the project of another kind of knowing – one that overturns epistemological assumptions deeply embedded in the history of culture and the human as usual. This new way of knowing displaces discourse and practice from logics of self-consistency and closure to logics of process and procedure. It pursues a radical pragmatism with the radical imperative: Always act so there are more ways to act next.
Don Byrd will speak to the scope of Arakawa and Gins’ project viewed as an elaboration on The Mechanism of Meaning, a work which unpacks notions of intelligibility and meaning into constituent process and procedures. The move from logic to meaning, from coherence and universality to unique events, procedures (algorithms) and incoherence, characterizes A+G’s project as a whole.
Alan Prohm will focus on the unique proposition A+G make in the history of art, architecture and philosophy: procedural architecture. He will question the efficacy they posit with this proposition in theory and practice, examining landing site theory (biotopology) and the architectural body as bases for an architecture for overcoming dying.
Jondi Keane will focus on processes and procedures of “cleaving” and on how this key notion— of joining and separating segments of awareness—informs activity within and across the modes of perception and action involved in responding to the body-wide prompts of A+G’s work.
The panel proposes a refocusing and rethinking of the relevance of Arakawa and Gins’ approach – for a new generation of coordinologists ready to dismantle, reassemble and reinvent living.

Don Byrd is a poet and a nervous observer of an overcrowded Earth, where the evolution of complex intelligence has been displaced by generalizations for forty millennia or more. He is Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York in Albany where he taught literature for 42 years, publishing poetry, essays and books including The Great Dimestore Centennial (1986), a book-length poem, and The Poetics of the Common Knowledge (1994).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byrd

Alan Prohm PhD is an artist, scholar and educator living in Berlin. His researches in the spatiality of knowing and meaning led him to the work of Arakawa and Gins, which he has taught to students in art and design contexts since 2004. With The BodyBuilding Project (2007/2014), the Reading Room exhibition (2008) and his ongoing built poem, The Tubular Loom since 2011, he has explored procedurality in practice. A speaker at each previous conference on A+G (2005, 2008, 2010) and at the funeral for Madeline Gins in 2014, he organized the 4-Day event The Proceeding Procedure and published the two-issue journal Procedures.
http://www.alanprohm.com/
https://proceduresjournal.com/2014event/
https://proceduresjournal.com/

Jondi Keane PhD is an artist and independent scholar. Since 1981, he has exhibited, performed, published and taught in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia. His doctorate, Arakawa and Gins: The Practice of Embodied Cognition (2006) led to co-organising the Reading Room exhibition at AG2 (2008), the AG3 conference (2010), the Unruly Techniques symposium (2014) and the Second International Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition Conference (2019). He is co-author of Creative Measure of the Anthropocene (2020) with Kaya Barry.
http://jondikeane.com/
http://www.architectural-body.com/?page_id=4035

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