PANEL: 1pm
The Politics of Time: Using and Cruising History
Scenario: "The older experimental filmmaker claims that the work of the younger generation is derivative, or has been "done before", and that younger artists should learn their history. The younger filmmaker (or media artist) argues that even if certain themes and strategies are being revisited, they are being transformed by the differing needs of a different historical era."
Chair: Blaine Allan
Participants: Abigail Child, William Wees, James Missen.

WORKSHOP: 3:30pm
The Politics of Time: A Loss of Confidence in the Future?
An important focus of recent experimental work has been the concept and experience of time, particularly the past, in the form of memory. This seems to have replaced some earlier forms of experimental practices which were linked to the struggle toward utopian ideals, or in other words, the future.
Chair: Chris Kennedy
Participants: Judith Doyle, Ariana Gerstein, Steve Reinke, Kika Thorne, Zachary Longboy.

TALK: 7pm
Peter Wollen (University of California)
Location: Wallace Hall, JDUC

Saturday October 20: Experimentation in an Age of Pluralism

PANEL: 10am
Critique and Capitalism
Cultural work sometimes seems more and more to ressemble the brownian motion of countless discrete molecules, all of which are dissolved in a transparent, liquid capitalism. Is it harder now to manifest an anti-capitalist imagination? How does the changing nature of artists work and their institutions effect this desire? Šis it still a desire? Does radical critique play a meaningful role in experimental work? Is the ideal capitalist subject an Œexperimenterš?
Chair: Glenn Willmott
Participants: John Greyson, Laura Marks, Michelle Kasprzak.

TALK: 1pm David James (University of Southern California)

WORKSHOP: 2:30pm
Money
Artists discuss its symbolic nature, its relation to the politics of time in their work and for their work, how much they need, where they get it from, where they used to get it from, where they think they should get it from, and what effect having it or not having it has on their practice.
Chair: Brenda Longfellow
Participants: T. Kim-Trang Tran, Jan Peacock, Mike Hoolboom, Frances Leeming, Montieth McCollum.

TALK: 5pm
Janine Marchessault (York University)

Sunday October 21: Experimenting for What?

PANEL 10am
Experimentation and Social Change
In science, the experimenter usually starts with an hypothesis, which is then proved, or not, by the experiment. Art works linked to social and political life work somewhat differently. There is usually a high degree of certainty that social life would be more just if social relations were different. Experimentation is required not to provide proof, but to help us imagine both how things might be, and also how to get there.
Chair: Dorit Naaman
Participants: Richard Fung, Lisa Steele, Judy Radul, Scott MacDonald.

For more information on Blowing the Trumpet to the Tulips, contact: Gary Kibbins (gk6@post.queensu.ca) or Susan Lord (613-533-6000, extension 77019).

Thanks to Jeannette Lambert for the drawing of the trumpeter.

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