Dutch Art Institute

A Hole in the Brain

Program Seminar - 9 February 2006 at the Dutch Art Institute
(all lectures will be in English)

11:00 Steven Steenbruggen, architect, member of the workgroup ‘De Verbeelde Beroerte’, family member of a stroke victim, Amsterdam.
History, ideas and goals of the symposium ‘A Hole in the Brain’
11:15 Dr. Frans Cornelissen, neurophysiologist, University of Groningen
‘How does the brain see?’ - an analysis of visual perception
12:30 Gregor Langfeld, art historian, Universtiy of Leiden
‘Lovis Corinth - painter (1858-1925)’ German artist whose works made in the years after his stroke gained more critical recognition than his early work, and whose work from this period was later reviled by the Nazis as an example of ‘Degenerate Art’.
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Dr. Cobie Baart, neurologist, Enschede
‘Causes and effects of a stroke, Introduction into the patients/cases’
16:00 Steven Steenbruggen
‘Herman Smith, Artist’ --- perceptions on having a stroke as well as coping with it afterwards
16:45 video screening
Michel Chevalier - Hand to Mouth (1999, 07'00", USA)
Sami Kallinen - The Juggler (2003, 07'40", Finland)
Valérie Pavia - La Vie Heureuse (1998, 03'00", France)
Gary Hill - Site Recite (a Prologue) (1989, 04'15", USA)
Read more about the videos >>>
  Drinks

Introduction Hole in the Brain >
Pictures from Seminar >
Presentation 21 April 2006 >

Portrait of:
Han Eulderink by Jolanda Jansen, Dagmar Kriegesmann and Viola Onderdelinden >
Helma Dirks by Machteld Aardse, Carlijn Mens and Kristiina Koskentola >
Herman Smith by Ruth Linnemann and Astrid Marit van Peet >
Portrait of Maria Hockers by Paula Bugni, Sónia Ribeiro and Pavlina Verouki >

Project coordinators DAI:
Florian Göttke and Rebecca Sakoun