The 11th Art of Management & Organization Conference theme is ‘New Total Arts for Sustainable Futures’
Hosted by ICN Creactive Business School
New Total Arts for Sustainable Futures
The Art of Management & Organization Conference Nancy, 21-24 August 2024
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You can find a copy of the draft programme for the conference here:
Please be aware that this is subject to change and is entirely provisional at this point. If you have any queries or restrictions on your time then please contact jenna.aomo@gmail.com asap.
You can also find out more about our bursary scheme to support the participation of artists and students by following this link. https://artofmanagement.org/category/nancy-2024/
Since 2002, the aim of this conference series has been to explore and promote the arts as a means of understanding management and organization. Artists inspire the business world, in the best case with artistic interventions and new discourses. But the impression persists that art does not go beyond the level of an aesthetic activity which is merely consumed in organizations. At its best, art holds up a critical mirror that shocks the organization into some kind of specific change. But does art ever change business as usual?
AoMO 2024 wants to approach management and organization from a New Total Arts perspective – art as an attitude, philosophy and guiding principle which should enable sustainable futures. Total Art strongly resonates with trans-disciplinarity but gains its strength in action and doing. Correspondingly, we want to take philosophies of action, of sensation, of embodiment and of objects into consideration, as they have been revisited in philosophies of the late 20th & early 21st centuries. In combination with Total Art these philosophies inspire The Art of Management & Organization Conference in Nancy.
Art is emotion … provocation … confrontation … protest … disruption … politics … activism … departure … development … reflection … transformation.
We need art in all these manifestations for sustainable futures. Art could be the gamechanger for organizations trying to make serious changes as we struggle to rethink our way of relating to the natural world of the planet, the climate, resources and other species that coexist upon it. New ways of being will depend upon new ways of seeing, and such perspectives are only possible if management and organization make a combined use of multiple art forms and processes.
Total art (art totale or Gesamtkunstwerk) has enjoyed canonical status in aesthetic theory since the late 20th century. For sustainable futures, two movements of Total Art are springboards for the conference: Art Nouveau and Art Déco.
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and design with Nancy as one of its capitals. Art Nouveau was a reaction against academic art, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decoration. The revolutionary approach was to break down the traditional distinction between arts, architecture and design, and develop a holistic understanding on the search for Total Art. Art Nouveau was inspired by natural forms, dynamism, asymmetry, and the use of modern materials, therefore synergistically combining art, nature and technology. Its political purpose was to address anyone and escaping the elitist audiences, issuing series production rather than unique originals, incorporating the industrial techniques into the art world, creating total environments and atmospheres. Art Déco was the main successor of Art Nouveau from 1910s onwards, first in France, later on international. Art Déco experimented with the genres of design, painting, furniture, architecture, and building within its stylistic realm characterized by vivid colours and daring geometry that led to extremely luxurious and detailed artworks. The urban expansion of the time spread this new fashion in Nancy. The former members of the Ecole de Nancy like Antonin Daum, Jacques Gruber, Louis Majorelle or Victor Prouvé were still present and developed their aesthetic further. Nancy remains a leading artistic capital during the 1920s and 1930s and still is a city with a lively art and cultural scene.
In a nutshell, New Total Arts for Sustainable Futures in Nancy means …
- Let’s break down our traditional distinctions of disciplines!
- Let’s incorporate art into every management and organizational process!
- Let’s turn organizations into New Total Arts!
- Let’s develop our “New Total Arts” for Sustainable Futures!
The Art of Management & Organization 2024 wants to revisit Art Nouveau and Art Déco to inspire participants before the conference to develop their New Total Arts contributions and during the conference to create new connections. We have a number of streams to inspire you:
Art as Re-evaluation: everything is scattered
Applied Theatre and Drama Methods in HE Sustainability
Open Stream
If you have any queries, please contact jenna.aomo@gmail.com
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