Workshop "Concepts of Time and Their Visual and Material Aspects - Focus Asia"

Tue Jun 8 10:30:07 UTC 2010

Dear Colleagues,

The following workshop will be held in Cologne on  25-26 June 2010. Everyone interested is most welcome to join us and participate in our discussions:

http://www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de/?q=node/328

With best wishes,

Corinna

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Concepts of Time and Their Visual and Material Aspects - Focus Asia

In the framework of Morphomata’s research on “Morphomes of Time”, this
workshop proposes to investigate the visual and material implications
of various Asian concepts of time. The time concepts that will be
introduced vary in some of their details and in the way time is
perceived and experienced. What is of particular interest is their
translation and manifestation in the visual media and in material works
(of art). The visualization of time may be regarded as a rather vast
field. However, it has rarely been intended to portray “time” itself
(examples for this will be discussed). Often, time manifests itself
indirectly in artworks – thus, a specific analytical approach becomes
necessary. This workshop seeks to explore the range of visual and
material expressions of time. This will help to reveal the impact of
time concepts on cultural figurations, which, in turn, may have
retroactively affected theoretical concepts and cultural practices.

PROGRAMME

Friday, 25 June7.30 pm Christoph Emmrich (Toronto): Knochenberg und Weltenbrand. Buddhistische literarische Denkbilder und Zeit

Saturday, 26 June

09.15 am Dietrich Boschung: Welcome Address/Begrüßung

                             Corinna Wessels-Mevissen: Introduction
09.45 Karl-Heinz Golzio (Bonn): The Calendar Systems of Ancient India and Their Spread to Southeast Asia 
10.30 COFFEE BREAK 
11.00 Jean Couteau (Denpasar): Calendar and Myth in Bali 
11.45 Robert J. Del Bontà (San Francisco): Time (or Timelessness) in Jaina Iconography 
12.30 LUNCH
02.00 pm Ryōsuke Ōhashi (Tokyo/Köln): The Concept of Time According to Zen Master Dôgen: “A Pine Tree is also Time, A Bamboo is also Time” 
02.45 Joachim K. Bautze (Berlin): Personified Time and Time of the Maharajas as Reflected in Indian Painting
03.30 COFFEE BREAK 
04.00 Gerd J. R. Mevissen (Berlin): Figurations of Time and Protection: Planetary and Other Astral Deities in South Asian Art
04.45 Ursula Bickelmann-Aldinger (Heidelberg): Time (and Space) in Modern Indian Art
05.30 Final Discussion
Venue: Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Weyertal 59 (rear building), 50937 Köln, 3rd floor

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Dr. Corinna Wessels-Mevissen

Fellow, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata:

Genese, Dynamik und Medialität kultureller Figurationen

Universität zu
Köln

Albertus-Magnus-Platz

50923 Köln (Germany)

Tel +49 (0)221 - 470 1294

http://www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de/

c.wessels-mevissen at uni-koeln.de;
corinnawessels at yahoo.de