Events

The Extraordinary
Radical Figures in Contemporary Philosophy and Art

Radical Figures in Contemporary Philosophy and Art

19-20 March, New Bulgarian University

The Extraordinary.
Radical Figures in Contemporary Philosophy and Art

Bulgarian-Japanese Academic Forum

Organised by the Centre for Art Theory and Contemporary Artistic Practices (NBU) and the East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts (EAA), University of Tokyo

Thursday, 19 March
16:20 – 19:30

The Extraordinary. Radical Figures in Contemporary Art

16:20 – 17:50
Guest Lectures at GENB 089
Futoshi Hoshino (University of Tokyo)
Picturing Catastrophe: The Maruki Panels in Postwar Japanese Art (16:30 – 17:00)
Part of Open Doors’ Days at NBU

Hanako Takayama (Meiji University)
When Pictures Move: The Documentary Film The Story of the Minamata Panels and the Mobility of Painting (17:00 – 17:20) 

18:00 – 19:30
Critical Workshop for Art Theory
(co-organised by the Centre of Art Theory and Contemporary Artistic Practices – NBU and the NBU Museum)

18:00 – 18:30
Zlatka Dimitrova
Iri and Toshi Maruki’s Works at the Collection of the National Gallery (Sofia) 

18:30 – 19:00
Eva-Maria Ivanova
Extraordinary Experience and the Entropy of Image
(with the participation of Silvia Andreeva and Yana Goncheva)

Friday, 20 March
14:30 – 19:30

The Extraordinary, the Event.
Radical Figures in Contemporary Philosophy

Inter-University Forum organised by the New Bulgarian University (CATCAP) and University of Tokyo (EAA)

14:00 – 14:20
Opening
Boyan Manchev (New Bulgarian University) and Futoshi Hoshino (University of Tokyo)

14:20 – 15:00
Futoshi Hoshino (University of Tokyo)
Exhibition as a Philosophical Event: Jean-François Lyotard and Les Immatériaux

15:00 – 15:40
Ani Vaseva (New Bulgarian University)
Time, Event and Image: Vertov, Bazin, Deleuze

15:40 – 16:20
Hanako Takayama (Meiji University)
The Aorgic in Blanchot

16:20 – 16:30
Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:10
Darin Tenev (Sofia University)
Meaning and Event: The Present of Fiction and the Powers of the False

17:10 – 17:50
Ryo Otsuhata (University of Tokyo)
À peu près: Retracing a Curved Line of the Dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

17:50 – 18:30
Nataliya Atanassova (Sofia University / NBU)
The Impossibility of the Event Is Infraesthetic: Monsters Don’t Show. They Haunt.

18:30 – 19:10
Boyan Manchev (New Bulgarian University)
Could the Extraordinary Persist? The Wound, A Life

Closing Remarks
19:10 – 19:30