Tribunalism. The Case for Art

The conference “Tribunalism. The Case for Art” brings together artists, legal theorists, theater and art scholars, and activists to discuss what spaces artistic tribunals open up, what can be said that cannot be said elsewhere and in other ways, how the invocation of a juridical form relates to legal skepticism or legal criticism, how the absence of judgment in tribunals relates to other forms of protest as well as to possible consequences, and last but not least, which new legal subjects need to be imagined and staged.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

10:00
Guided tour through the exhibition “Tribunalism. The Case for Art” Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

11:00
Susanne Leeb, Clemens Krümmel: Introduction

11:30
Rhada d’Souza: What’s Wrong with Rights? And Why We Cannot Let Go of It

Lunch break

13:30
Sylvia Sasse: The Theater of Artistic Tribunals (via Zoom)

15:00
Abderrahmane Sissako: Bamako

17:00
Daniel Loick: On Popular Justice

19:00
Tyler Coburn, „Richard Roe“ – A Reading

Friday, October 8th, 2021

10:00
Zuleikha Chaudhari: Landscape as Evidence. Artist as Witness

11:30
Sven Lütticken: New Juridical Subjects

12:30
Alice Creischer: A Reading

Lunch break

14:30
René Talbot: The Foucault Tribunal as a Political Didactic Play

16.00
Peter Spillmann: Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm. Crossing the Russell-Tribunal

17:30
Final discussion

curated by Susanne Leeb and Clemens Krümmel