Situated Knowledges

Situated Knowledges

Date & Time

26 - 27 Jun, 2021 4pm-10pm

Location

2/F, Central Magistracy, Block 09

Price

Free of charge

General

A hybrid parallel conference and workshop event of Shared Campus at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (on-site) and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (online)


The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway is a central topic in her concept of feminist objectivity. In her much-cited essay "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1988), Haraway assumes that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. For this reason, the concept of Situated Knowledges incorporates the social location and contextual advantages of the researcher into the research process. Against an assumption of an apparently neutral and unmediated Knowledge of the (white, male) Western idea of science and its representation through overview visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of embodied knowledges by drawing on a description of the eye and "vision" (in the broad real and metaphorical sense). There is no such thing as unconditional observation, she argues, because every "acquisition of knowledge" takes place in a dynamic "apparatus of bodily production".

With this in mind the conference invites artists, curators, educators, scholars and students from the Shared Campus partners and beyond to engage in this programme of public talks and discussions as well as participatory Zoom workshops. The workshops are open to all disciplines and graduate levels.

This conference is led by Prof Dorothee Richter (ZHdK) and Dr Cedric Maridet (HKBU AVA). The organization was managed by Ronald Kolb (ZHdK).

Programme Timetable

26 Jun 2021 (Sat)

4pm-6pm

Talk

Talk with Netherlands artist Jeanne van Heeswijk (online event, with live streaming at Tai Kwun)
Speaker: Jeanne van Heeswijk

Free admission, no registration required

7pm-10pm

Workshop
 

Round table discussion "Transposition" (online event, with live streaming at Tai Kwun)
Speakers: Ron Yakir, Li Xiaoqiao, Rose Li and Shum Kwan Yi (MPhil & PhD researchers, HKBU AVA)

27 Jun 2021 (Sun)

4pm-5:10pm

Talk

Situating the Gap (online event, with live streaming at Tai Kwun)
Speaker: Angela Dimitrakaki (Art Historian, Senior Lecturer of the Edinburgh College of Arts)

Free admission, no registration required

5:20pm-6:30pm

Talk

Against Political Naturalism (online event, with live streaming at Tai Kwun)
Speaker: Yuk Hui (Associate Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)

Free admission, no registration required

7pm-10pm

Workshop

Cloth Knowledge: Sculpting with a Missing CornerIce Forgets (on-site event)
Speakers: Debe Sham (PhD researcher, HKBU AVA), Georgia Kennedy

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For more detail on the worshops, please visit the Situated Knowledge official website 

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