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"UNMAPPING the RENAISSANCE"Florence, divers lieux (voir programme)12-15 mars 2015Symposium initiated and organized by Mariechen Danz (artist), Angelika Stepken (Villa Romana Florence) and Eva-Maria Troelenberg (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)This event is a joint project of the Max Planck Research Group "Objects in the Contact Zone. The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things" at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and the Villa Romana Florence and takes place at various locations in the city.The city of Florence is regarded as the birthplace of the Renaissance. The fact that the economic and commercial power structures that developed during the Renaissance also impelled the colonization of non-European worlds – among other things through linguistic and semiotic hegemony – is to this day rarely incorporated into this Florentine narrative.In the tourism industry and in the sciences, eurocentric categories are each in their own way persistent, even – or especially – in times of rapidly progressing globalization: even as looking outward may become more natural, it often still turns into another confirmation of the accepted master narrative.In recent years, though, we have also seen a growing awareness of the categories, and of the perceptual processes associated with it, develop in the context of a comprehensive “transcultural turn.” Post-colonial theoretical approaches, for example, question the role of the Latin alphabet, of printing, of language or of particular social ideals on whose flip side processes of dispossession, canonization and hierarchization of culture, memory and space unfolded – and can continue to unfold in the afterlife of the Renaissance narrative.Since the 1990s, ethnographical and anthropological representations are being critically examined and aesthetic positionings are challenged in artistic inquiries and practices through chronopolitics and techniques of distancing. Contemporary art production is global and reflects the colonization of gazes and conceits.In this sense the symposium UNMAPPING the RENAISSANCE follows critical resurveys of the mental map of a canonical and canonizing understanding of culture and period-concept: in a dialog between science and art, whose performative practices are intended to decidedly transcend established academic formats, the event considers the connections between hegemonic sign systems, imagination and (de-)colonial practices.PROGRAMThursday, 12 MarchGabinetto G. P. Vieusseux – Sala FerriPiazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Florence17.00Keynote Lecture: Walter D. MignoloFrom Global Linear Thinking to the MultiPolar World Order(The Darker Side of the Renaissance 20 years later)Mariechen DanzA Voiced GestureFriday, 13 March Biblioteca Laurenziana – Sala d’ElchiPiazza San Lorenzo 9, 50123 Florence09.30Introduction: Eugenia AntonucciIl Codice Fiorentino10.00Lecture: Medina LasanskyWas there an Italian Renaissance? And Whose Was it?11.30Lecture: Maria Thereza AlvesSome considerations about European concepts of Race since the RenaissancePiazza Signoria &#62; Ponte Vecchio15.00Performance: Johannes Paul RaetherDismembered City of Augmented EmbodimentsVilla RomanaVia Senese 68, 50124 Florence17.00Lecture: Hannah BaaderMapping and Un-mapping the Maritime Renaissance19.00Opening: The Anti-Humboldt-Box – A declaration19.30Performance: AFROTAK TV cyberNomads presentAdetoun Kuepper-Adebisi &#38; Michael Kueppers-AdebisiDer Reichstag in the reMIX– Contemporary Epistemic Literature Sound &#38; Image Archiving | Talking in Tongues Art &#38; Multi-Media Interventions in Times of the new Global RenaissancesSaturday, 14 MarchKunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-InstitutCasa Zuccari, Via Gino Capponi 22, 50121 Florence10.00Lecture: Andreas Siekmann11.30Lecture: Alvaro Jose Guillen Jr.Villa RomanaVia Senese 68, 50124 Florence15.30Presentation: Gala PorrasWhistling and Language Transfiguration16.00Lecture: Adam HerringPlace in the Sun: Synaesthetic Experience in Inca Peru18.00The Anti-Humboldt-Box:A guided tour by Artefakte // anti-humboldt19.00Screening: Liz GlynnHold Nothing, 2014Sunday, 15 MarchVilla RomanaVia Senese 68, 50124 Florence11.00Performance Lecture: Carlin WingBounce, Ricochet, Rebound: Two Cases of 16th Century Ball PlayFinal Meeting over Brunch13.00Closing Performance: Gabriel Rossell SantillánAll lectures / performances will be held in English.Streaming on radiopapesse.orgClick on Ascolta to join the symposium live.ContactEva-Maria Troelenbergtroelenberg@khi.fi.itFurther informationhttp://www.khi.fi.it/5097203/&#160;SourceImage : Mariechen Danz, Methods of Inscription (Bodies Ink), 2013