Symposium: The “Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies”

Speakers
Welcome
3 pm – 3:10 pm
Johannes Ebert, Secretary-General of the Goethe-Institut
Okwui Enwezor, Director Haus der Kunst
Markus Müller, Curator of “Improvise NOW!!!”

Keynote
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm
George E. Lewis, introduced by Benjamin Piekut
Keynote Two

3:30 pm – 3:50 pm
Benjamin Piekut, introduced by George E. Lewis

Respondent
3:50 pm – 4:05 pm
Georgina Born, introduced by George Lewis
Discussion and questions
4:05 pm – 4:45 pm

Tea and coffee break
4:45 pm – 5 pm

Discussion
5 pm – 7 pm
Benjamin Piekut: Chair

Sara Villa: “Improvisatory Practices and the Dawn of the New American Cinema”

Christopher Dell: “Improvisation Technology as Mode of Redesigning the Urban”

Harald Kisiedu: “‘Like a Cry You Wanted to Answer’: Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and the Emergence of Jazz Experimentalism in East Germany”

Respondents
Sher Doruff: “She Stuttered: Mapping the Spontaneous Middle”

Raymond Macdonald: “Billy Connolly, Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, Jazz Bastards, and the Universality of Improvisation”

Open discussion
7 pm – 7:30 pm

Concert – 48nord
9 pm

Tickets
Symposium 10 €
Concert 10 €
Symposium and Concert 18 €
Tickets are available online, at the cash desk of Haus der Kunst, and via München Ticket.
The event series is curated by Markus Müller.
“Improvise NOW!!!” is a cooperation with the Goethe-Institut.