QUAND LES IMAGES VIENNENT AU MONDE DYNAMIS DE L

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QUAND LES IMAGES VIENNENT AU MONDE
DYNAMIS DE L’IMAGE III
JEU DE PAUME – PARIS
June 4th-5th, 2015
What happens when images come into the world? How can an imago mundi still arise today as
the spatio-temporal bonds of kinship have broken apart to the mere benefit of muddled
identitarian claims based on signs whose origin is long forgotten? We have decided to trust
images, their disturbing generosity, their power to keep infinite possibilities of actualization open,
in order to follow them through heterogeneous geographies and temporalities, avoiding any
pretention to offer an ultimate definition and all dull comparatism as well.
Images have an autonomous power that has resisted past and current attempts to make them
subservient to other needs: this position has been strengthened over the past two years by the
research carried out by an international network of scholars on the various crossroads in the
history of visual theories and practices in the Western tradition. With the notion of dynamis as a
starting point, we have explored the neglected ways of what could have been another
understanding of the images, different from the one that has led to their current exhaustion.
The aim of this concluding colloquium is to decenter our perspective by acknowledging the
multipolar dimension of the contemporary world which constantly gives birth to new images, while
these keep it spinning. Cast in a movement which also inevitably puts into movement their
beholders, the dynamics of today’s images reflects that of the world: restless, mutinous, defiant.
The international colloquium Quand les images viennent au monde : Dynamis de l’image III
marks the conclusion of the project Dynamis of the Image. An Archaeology of Potentialities which
has been conceived and developed since 2012 by Emmanuel Alloa and Chiara Cappelletto at
the request of the Collège d’études mondiales of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme
(Paris) and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf).
With Linda Baez-Rubi, Hans Belting, Susan Buck-Morss, Georges Didi-Huberman,
François Jullien, Monica Juneja, Marie-José Mondzain, Morad Montazami, WJT Mitchell
Thursday, June 4th
11.00 Welcoming and opening talks of the institutions representatives
11.15 Emmanuel ALLOA et Chiara CAPPELLETTO
Introduction
11.30 Georges DIDI-HUBERMAN (EHESS, Paris)
Une dynamique des (images) fluides
12.30 Marie-José MONDZAIN (EHESS, Paris)
L’image : puissances de la zone
13.30 Lunch
15.00
François JULLIEN (Collège d’études mondiales, Paris)
Image-phénomène ou « la grande image n’a pas de forme »
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Hans BELTING (Karlsruhe)
Face and Mask. An Exchange of Iconic Power
17.15
Discussion
18.00 End
Friday, June 5th
11.00 Emmanuel ALLOA et Chiara CAPPELLETTO
Opening
11.15 Monica JUNEJA (Universität Heidelberg / Getty Research Ins., LA)
The Gestalt of Feeling. Recuperating the Dynamis of the Image in Northern India
12.15 Morad MONTAZAMI (Tate Modern, London)
De l’orientalisme spéculatif à l’orientalisme hérétique : généalogies
transculturelles de l’art moderne
13.15
Lunch
14.45 Susan BUCK-MORSS (Cornell University, Ithaca)
Visible Empire
15.45
Coffee break
16.00 Linda BAEZ-RUBI (National University of Mexico)
Travelling Images: Moving Ideas between Continents
17.00
WJT MITCHELL (University of Chicago)
Method, Madness and Montage. On Global Image Overload
18.00
Final discussion
19.00
END