Light Exhibition and conference // Schedule

Monday, 16 March 2015

6 pm Opening Michael Schuster, Es gibt auch Spiegel, in denen man erkennen kann, was einem
fehlt, 2015, house of parliament, passage to Herrengasse
With the President of the Parliament Franz Majcen, Provincial Councillor for Cultural Affairs
Dr. Christian Buchmann, Elisabeth Fiedler, Institute for Art in Public Space Styria

Thursday, 19 March 2015

6 pm Welcome at Restaurant Joan, Joanneum District
Small dinner, preview of Kosuth/Lesliehof
followed by taxi shuttle to Eggenberg
8 pm Paul Schuster, collection curator at Schloss Eggenberg, Graz
Theme: Candlelight tour of Schloss Eggenberg

Friday, 20 March 2015

10:30 Opening Joseph Kosuth, Nicht im vorliegenden Sachverhalt, light installation for Joanneum
District, UMJ/Lesliehof, with Provincial Councillor for Cultural Affairs Dr. Christian Buchmann,
Peter Pakesch
11:00 Start of conference, Joanneum District
Welcome by Dr. Christian Buchmann, Peter Pakesch, Elisabeth Fiedler

Lectures 30 min. each plus 15 min. discussion

hosted by Sabine Flach, Institute for art history, University of Graz

11:15 Serge Lemoine, Muse Grand Palais, Paris

Title: Light in the arts of 20th century
12:00 Conversation between Joseph Kosuth and Serge Lemoine about the use of light in the
conceptual arts, hosted by Sabine Flach

12:30 Lunch at Joans, Joanneum District

2 pm Anselm Wagner, Institute of Architectural Theory, Art and Cultural Studies, TU Graz
Title: Monitoring - Zur Kulturgeschichte des Kunstlichts seit der industriellen Revolution
2:45 Kthe Klappenbach, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
Title: The Light of Power. Illuminants and Candlesticks of the Prussian Emperors in its
European context
3:30 Siegrun Appelt, artist, Vienna
Subject: Slow Light
4:15 Maximilian Moser, Medical University Graz
Title: Time Emitter. The Doings and Suffering of Light
5 pm Final discussion, hosted by Sabine Flach
5:45 End of conference

6 pm Dinner, Gsser Bru, Neutorgasse 48

7:30 Taxi shuttle to Reininghaus
8 pm Opening with Siegrun Appelt in Reininghaus
Saturday, 21 March 2015
10 pm Start of conference with welcome, Joanneum District

Lectures 30 min. each plus 15 min. discussion, hosted by Sabine Flach

10:15 Birgit Schulz, head of Space and Light Laboratory, Graz University of Technology
Title: Light and Space. The LightLab of the Institute for Spatial Design at TU Graz
11 pm Brian Cody, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Building and Energy
Subject: Light and energy
11:45 Klaus Kada, Graz, architect
Subject: Light and architecture

12:30 Lunch Joan, Joanneum District

2 pm Bernhard Inninger, Urban Planning Graz

Subject: Light in the city of Graz
2:45 Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska, Hochschule Wismar , Faculty of Architecture and Design
Title: Who stole the Milky Way? Light pollution and its impact on urban and natural
environment
3:30 Anna Wirz-Justice, Psychiatric University Clinic Basel
Title: Light and Psyche
4:15 Charlotte Rem, ophthalmology, ETH Zrich
Title: Eye and vision: the bright and the dark side of light
5 pm Summary, hosted by Sabine Flach

6 pm Dinner and aprs-event, Aiola upstairs, Schlossberg

Schedule summary
Monday, 16 March 2015
6 pm Opening
Michael Schuster, Es gibt auch Spiegel, in denen man erkennen kann, was
einem fehlt, 2015, mirror and light writing quoting Friedrich Hebbel
With the President of the Parliament Franz Majcen, the Provincial Councillor
for Cultural Affairs Dr. Christian Buchmann, Elisabeth Fiedler, Director of
Institute for Art in Public Space Styria
Venue: Passage from Herrengasse to the Landtag

Thursday, 19 March 2015

6 pm Welcome at Joan, Joanneum District
Preview: Joseph Kosuth, Nicht im vorliegenden Sachverhalt, 2015
light installation for Joanneum District, UMJ/Lesliehof
89 pm Candlelight tour of Eggenberg with Paul Schuster

Friday, 20 March 2015

10:30 am Opening
Joseph Kosuth, Nicht im vorliegenden Sachverhalt, 2015
With Provincial Councillor Buchmann, Peter Pakesch
Light installation for Joanneum District, UMJ/Lesliehof,
Venue: Joanneum District/Lesliehof
11:00 am6 pm Conference, part 1: Light
Venue: Joanneum District, conference room
68 pm Dinner and transfer
89:30 pm Opening
Siegrun Appelt, Light project Graz-Reininghaus, 2015
Technique: 28 Moving Heads, 4 working stations, 6 speakers, 1 WLAN
network, pedestals, cable, copyright of installation / pictures - Siegrun
Appelt, 2015
Venue: Reininghausstrae 5

Saturday, 21 March 2015

10am6 pm Conference, part 2: Light
Joanneum District, conference room
6 pm Dinner and aprs-event, Aiola upstairs, Schlossberg