Hybrid genres and the contemporary neo-avant-garde

Thursday 30 November 2017

13.00 – 13.15
General introduction: Lars Bernaerts

13.15 – 15.15
Thomas Eder: ‘How to re-poeticize the avant-garde. The poems and poetics of Reinhard Priessnitz and Franz Josef Czernin’
Brigitte Felix: ‘On Lance Olsen’s There’s no place like time’

15.15 – 15.45
Coffee break

15.45 – 17.45
Michel Delville: ‘Rubouts, Blackouts and Cover-ups’
Nele Janssens: ‘Prose, Poetry and Lyricality. On Lucienne Stassaert’

19.00
Dinner (Bistrot du Canal, Rue Dansaert/Dansaertstraat 208)

Friday 1 December 2017

10.00 – 12.00
Vincent Broqua: ‘Language school of poetry and their relation to the avant-garde’
Ilse Logie: ‘Neo-Avant-Garde in Latin America: the case of Mario Bellatin’12.00 – 12.30 Lunch

12.30
Discussion about publications etc. (non-public session)

Saturday (suggestions)

MIMA (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art)

Opening hours: 10.00 – 18.00
Exhibition: ‘Art is comic’
Artists: Jean Julien, HuskMitNavn, Mon Colonel and Spit, Brecht Evens, Joan Cornella, Brecht
Vandenbroucke
More information: http://www.mimamuseum.eu/

or

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB)

Opening hours: 11.00 – 18.00
Exhibition: ‘Magritte, Broodthaers & Contemporary Art’
More information: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/