BEYOND THE SKIN
- PROGRAM -
ROUNDTABLES
+ 1 on 1 studio talks
SEPTEMBER 5-8, 2024
Introduction
On September 5-8, 2024, an international art and science project will be held in Venice on SKIN, participated by dozens of artists and scholars from academic institutions worldwide.
A variety of aspects will be presented and integrated: layers, covers, boundaries, sensation, communication, wrinkles, hair, beauty, wound healing, burns, transplants and fillers, animal skins, mental dimensions, fashion, tattoo, ancient scrolls, the microbiome envelope, curtain covers of buildings, cars and trucks covers design, economics, anthropology, mythology, literature, poetry, theatre, cinema and more.
This lab and art camp includes a digital exhibition, hybrid roundtable discussions with artists and scholars from all over the world, a website and a book. It is a project with the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Venice International University and other universities worldwide. The project will continue after September, with planned virtual and live events in Paris, Berlin and New York.
This project, besides its academic and artistic merits, demonstrates the power of bringing two supposedly different poles, art and science, together around a common theme, enabling discussion and fruitful and creative ideas, in current divided world.
Venue: The Giudecca campus of The Venice Academy of Fine Arts, next to CREA Gallery.
Mode: The meetings will take place physically at the project's designated space as well as virtually via Zoom (links will be provided). Participants may share brief presentation or images, and will comment along the moderated session.
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135 ART & SCIENCE CONTRIBUTORS:
Afsian Aguilar, Alon Gur-Arie, Amalia Robin, Amir Cohen, Amit Gonzalez , Amos Gilhar, Noa Gilhar, Anna Keisar, Arie Kutz, Roni Nir, Ariela Hafner, Avi Pines, Avi Rosen, Avi Sperber, Aviva Shemer, Avivit Segal, Ayelet Rishpon, Carmit Levy, Carolina Sanchez Levi, Catherine Hug, Charlotte Mathieson, Craig Koslofsky, Dafna Moriya, Daniel Landau, Danny Shain, Daphna Margolin, David de-Mayo, Dennis ray raitses, Dorit Kedar, Dror Hibsh, E.H.Bellin, Eli Levinger, Eraldo Mauro, Esther Afriat Melul, Eyal Assulin, Freya Verlander
Friedemann Derschmidt, Gabi Wolf, George Nuku, Guenter Burg, Guy Nattiv, Yuval Orr, Hadass Shlagman, Haim Dotan, Hans Jörn Brandenburg, Hedva Reuven, Roni Reuven, Heni Westbrook, Ilan Wittenberg, Israel Rabinovich, Itai Lifschitz, Itzhak Zilinsky, Jack Sal, John Gian Pozi, John O'Mara, Johnathan Reiner, Johnny Eyal, Jojo Ohayon, Judith Perl, Josef Haik, Francis Haik, Keren Shalev, Lee Yanor (Curated by Drorit Gur Arie), Lela Migirov, Lena Kozlova, Liat Danieli, Lily Freeman-Jones, Luigi Viola, Mariana Korol, Marian Gabani Gimenez, Michael Lazar, Michel Platnic, Mimmo Catania, Mira Marcus-Kalish, Moshe Vollach, Moti Dariel, Nancy Spero, Naseem Darbey, Nathan Cohen, Nicholé Velásquez, Nicola Rae, Nicole Nyffenegger, Nir Segal, Nir Wanger, Nitza Genosar, Nitzan Primor, Norma Drimmer, Nurit Harel, Oded Keynan
Oded Rechavi, Tchelet Feldman, Omri Goren, Ori Topaz, Orna Elstein, ORLAN, Paul Malone, Pier Paolo Scelsi, Pina Bausch, Pnina Shor, Rafi Carasso, Rajul Mehta, Ratna Gandhi, Revital Arbel
Riccardo Caldura, Rina Schenfeld, Rita Degli Esposti, Ronny Someck, Rony Griffit, Sabina Carraro, Sanya Youalli, Sara Melzer, Sara Zadrozny, Saritte Nachshon, Shalom Newman, Shamai Gliler, Shlomi Bronshtein, Shulamit Kreitler, Sigal de-Mayo, Sonia Rolak, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Suzy Sureck, Tamar Schori, Tirtsa Valentine, Uwe Wollina, Victor Frostig, Wilhelm Stolz, Yael Apter, Yasmine Bergner (with Jude Moscovitch), Yehudah Roth, Yiannos Economou, Yigal Ozeri, Yigal Vardi, Yoav brener, Yolanda Antal, Zadok Ben David, Zigi Ben-Haim.
Roundtable 01 - DermArtology
Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024
from 2000 to 2200 (Venice time)
Topics: The skin is our most visible organ, whose health and beauty dermatology strives for. participants will address relationships between medicine and fine arts, the art and science of wax moulages, surrealism and dermatology and dermoscopy.
Invited Participants (interim list): Catherine Hug, Sabina Carraro, Uwe Wollina, Wilhelm Stolz, Günter Burg, Esther Azizi.
Roundtable 02 - Relics
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
from 1000 to 1200 (Venice time)
Topics: Ancient (the Judea Desert) scrolls, phylactery and door posts, sacred skin/leather-related artifacts, skin/leather attributes in religious art, book covers, ancient printing techniques on leather, mummification, scalps, memory, holiness, magic, power, counterfeits, economics, relationships to current or political affairs.
Invited Participants (interim list): Pnina Shor, Riccardo Caldura, Luigi Viola, Ratna Gandhi, Avi Sperber, Henie Westbrook, Yehudah Roth.
Roundtable 03 - Cultural skin studies: enquiries from literature and culture
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
from 1400 to 1600 (Venice time)
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Topics: In this session, members of the international Cultural Skin Studies network will showcase what scholars of literature and culture “do with skin”. Through a series of five-minute lightening talks, each scholar will use a primary source open text as the basis for a live reading to give a hands-on demonstration of how we work with texts and cultural products when we work on skin. The lightning talks will be followed by a discussion among participants and audience members.
Invited Participants (interim list): Nicole Nyffenegger, Charlotte Mathieson, Lily Freeman-Jones, Craig Koslofsky, Sara Zadrozny, Freya Verlander.
Roundtable 04 - Wearable senses
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
from 1800 to 2000 (Venice time)
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Topics: Skin is a focus to versatile sensations and probably of some embodied cognition. Parallel meaning may be found in novel textile-based expressions and uses.
Invited Participants (interim list): Yolanda Antal, Naseem Darbey, Tamar Schori.
Roundtable 05 - Music and Poetry
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
from 1100 to 1300 (Venice time)
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Topics: A spiritual quest for additional interpretations of skin in the more meditative arts, with attempts of inspiring simultaneous participatory activities.
Invited Participants (interim list): John Gian Pozi, Ronny Someck,
Naama Harel, Yigal Ozery, Hans Brandenburg.
Roundtable 06 - Tattoo: Anthropology, Science & Futurism
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
from 1500 to 1700 (Venice time)
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Topics: The consciousness of skin; Within the broad spectrum of tattoo research, participants will focus on anthropological facets and future roles of skin marking in our society.
Invited Participants (interim list): Yasmine Bergner, George Nuku, Revital Arbel, Amir Cohen, Gaby Wolf, Sanya Youalli.
Roundtable 07 - Fauna and Flora
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
from 1800 to 2000 (Venice time)
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Topics: Following reflections in the animal and plant worlds, the participants will describe lessons learnt and possible applications in both arts and science.
Invited Participants (interim list): Nicola Rae, Paul Malone, Yiannos Economou, Ori Topaz.
Roundtable 08 - New Life – Dead Sea
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024
from 1100 to 1300 (Venice time)
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Topics: Skin related research in the Dead Sea, the lower place on Earth surface and an area modelling extreme conditions of outer planets, reveals new insights on immune resistance, mind blowing effects of light and irradiation on mind, revealing parts of the fascinating skin microbiome world, and the unique inspiration exerted on some artists.
Invited Participants (interim list): Mira Marcus-Kalish, Nurit Harel, Carmit Levy, Oded Keynan, Nir Wanger, Jojo Ohayon, Esther Afriat Melul.
Roundtable 09 - Remodeling
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024
from 1500 to 1700 (Venice time)
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Topics: Changing skin deployment in surgery affects identity, reveals sad past of pain and suffering and places genetics and epigenetics in a horrific or a beautiful setting.
Invited Participants (interim list): Josef Haik, Francis Haik, Revital Arbel, Nurit Harel, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Dror Hibsh.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Josef Haik, Francis Haik
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024, 13:00
Re-implantation - Plastic surgeon and artist couple bring novel masks to Venice.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Ariela Hafner, Keren Shalev
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024, 13:30
Hidradenitis suppurativa - A debilitating ailment and its heart-rending photorepresentation. (RECORDED).
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Ayelet Rishpon
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024, 13:45
Psychodermatology - Treatment of skin-mind disorders using combined approaches. (RECORDED).
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Eli Levinger
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024, 16:30
Melting skin - A quest for inner and outer worlds using phantasy characters.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Suzy Sureck
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024, 17:00
Tread Lightly - On translating digital signals emitted from moss, maple and black walnut roots to sound, color and light event.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Ilan Witenberg
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024, 13:00
Bare truth - A photographer peeling masculine covers attempting new revelations.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Amalia Robin
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024, 13:30
Skin ego.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Yigal Ozeri
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024, 14:00
Is it real? - What lies under one's realistic-figurative painting.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Carolina Sanchez Levi
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024, 14:30
Bizarre and shocking uses of human skin - A comprehensive talk on flaying, decoration artefacts, bookbinding, forensics, people branding and body modifications.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Amos and Noa Gilhar
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 13:00
Retirement and progress with the Gilhars - Dermatology research scientist and his artist daughter discuss aging, retirement and their interactions. (RECORDED).
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Arie Kutz
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 13:45
Architecture and Skin: case study - challenging the skin concept in architecture in CheckPoint HQ building.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Nitzan Primor
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 14:30
Pruritus (ìtching) - Attending both agony and pleasure, a remedy was developed and then some art works. (RECORDED).
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Even Bellin, Yael Apter
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 18:00
Soul welding - Painting feelings of patients and caregivers in psychiatry and psychology.
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Shulamit Kreitler
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 18:30
Volatile cognition - Meaning of skin, symbols and attentive creativity. (RECORDED).
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*The organizers reserve the right to make changes in the project contents and schedules.