Conference Programme

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

Time	Auditorium
8:00–9:00	Registration and coffee
9:00–9:30	Welcoming remarks Vasti Roodt (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Stellenbosch University) Stephanus Muller (Director of Africa Open Institute, Stellenbosch University) Lize-Marie van der Watt (PI: Decay without mourning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
09:30–10:30	Keynote Session Chair: Lize-Marie van der Watt Relational care in reimagining meanings of African Heritage Objects at Manchester Museum Njabulo Chipangura Deep Time Metabolism and Creative Decay Christina Fredengren
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
	Auditorium	Room 1	Boardroom
11:00–12:30	Chair: Lizabé Lambrechts Conservation after Permanence: Decay, Critical Ethics and the Future of Heritage Hanna B. Hölling Restaging, De-closing, Versioning: Unfolding Temporalities of “the Archive” Andrea Sick & Sigrid Adorf	Chair: Bruno Moreschi When All Return to the Earth: Decay and the Cyclical Life of Heritage in the Bolivian Amazon Lesly García Mangrove Museum: Decay, Relation, and Archipelagic Heritage Ana Carolina Roman Rodrigues Methodological and Epistemic Possibilities of Decay: Relational World-Making Kaimé Guerrero Valencia	Umhlabathi / Umhlabuthi: The registers of sonic temporalities of Deferred Decay Simphiwe Mlambo Imagine Ronsack Michael C Coldwell Antarctica – the continent of the future Kati Lindstrom
12:30–13:30	Lunch
13:30–14:30	Chair: Fernanda Pitta Art, Music, and Dance in the Karib Alliance Reinaldo da Silva Oliveira Kurâ-Bakairi Roça de Toco: Territory, Cosmology, and Transformation Eric Kamikiawa Tupinambá Clubs and Living Heritage: Diplomacy, Circulation, and the Reactivation of Objects Beyond the Display Case Glicéria Tupinambá Awakening Terena Ceramics: Memory, Territory, and Spiritual Reconstruction in Aldeia Kopenoti Irineu Terena	Chair: Lize-Marie van der Watt Erasing Memory: Recent State House Renovation and the Politics of Decay in Kenya's Heritage Discourse Babere Kerata Chacha Decay as code in Japanese heritage and art practices Kati Lindstrom	Umhlabathi / Umhlabuthi: The registers of sonic temporalities of Deferred Decay Simphiwe Mlambo Imagine Ronsack Michael Schofield Antarctica – the continent of the future Kati Lindstrom
14:30–15:00			Walkabout: Chair: Nicola Deane Home Truths Tsholofelo Moche Umhlabathi / Umhlabuthi: The registers of sonic temporalities of Deferred Decay Simphiwe Mlambo
15:00–15:30			Walkabout: Antarctica – the continent of the future Kati Lindstrom Nestled Neith Moore
15:30–16:00	Coffee break
16:00–17:00	Chair: Leif Petersen Scores for Decay and Transformation Maija Hirvanen with Peter McCoy	Chair: Lize-Marie van der Watt Molecular Fabulations: From Ashes to Algorithms Neith Moore “Who’s buried here?”: #Gravetok between Archives and Aesthetics Linda Kopitz	Umhlabathi / Umhlabuthi: The registers of sonic temporalities of Deferred Decay Simphiwe Mlambo
	End of day 1 Venue: Oude Leeskamer Gallery
18:00–19:00	Opening of exhibition, Deaccessioned, with wine reception
19:00–20:00	Concert and album launch Hypha Composed by Cara Stacey Performance with Keenan Ahrends &amp Matthijs van Dijk

Time	Auditorium
09:00–10:30	Keynote Session Chair: Kati Lindström Natural Disaster, Cultural Heritage, and Transformation:The 2023 Al-Haouz Earthquake in Morocco Taku Ida Histories of Conservation and Decay as Pathways for Future Practices of Care Sven Dupré Ruination and Regeneration in the Artwork: Leftovers at the table (or, what we are left with) Leora Farber
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
	Auditorium	Room 1	Boardroom
11:00–12:30	Chair: Nicola Deane Flags of Other Winds: Decay, Resistance, and Infrastructural Entanglements Orlando Francisco Solar Cartographies: A Speculative Dialogue through Artistic Practices on Heritage, Transformation and Time Sally Santiago Missing People, Present Decay Eve Wong	Chair: Fernanda Pitta Tercer atómico espectral Florencia Levy Afterimages of Decay: Rebuilding the Democratic Process of Designing through Digital Ruins Hyunggyu Kim Aura, Decay and the Simulation of Ghosts: A practice research examination of changing media spectrality and AI Michael Schofield	Film Viewing Ancestral Ceramic Technology, 2024–2025 Irineu Nje’a Terena Tupinambá Ibirapema Clubs - Cosmotecnics of the Tupinambá Clubs, 2024–2025 Glicéria Tupinambá
12:30–13:30	Lunch
	Auditorium
13:30-14:30	Film Premiere and Discussion: Hypha Aryan Kaganof & Cara Stacey in conversation with Alexandra Dodd
	Auditorium	Room 1	Boardroom
14:30-15:00			Walkabout: Chair: Lizabé Lambrechts Echoes of Time Marisa Maré Endling Dominique Edwards & Nicola Deane
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30–17:00	Chair: Lize-Marie van der Watt When the Digital Image Fails: Metadata, Material Encounters, and Indigenous Knowledge Practices Bruno Moreschi Biocultural Territories are Living Museums Ruth Albernaz When Objects Return Through Words Francy Baniwa	Chair: Lizabé Lambrechts Where’s Wanda? Cara Stacey Beyond Solutionism: Decay as Relational Practice in Bioplastic Art Marisa Maré Endling Wakes: Decay, Care, and the Sonic Archive as Eco-Ritual Nicola Deane
	End of day 2 Venue: Adam Small Theatre
18:00–19:00	vROT, Opening reception with wine
19:00–20:00	Performance of vROT with Nelisiwe Xaba

Time	Auditorium
09:00–10:15	Film premiere and Discussion: Son of the Spoil Andrew Charman in conversation with Leif Petersen
10:15–10:45	Coffee break
10:45-11:15	vROT: The Politics and Poetics of Decay Brenton Maart in conversation with Nelisiwe Xaba
11:15–12:15	Panel Discussion Chair and discussant: Fernanda Pitta Heritage-as-Process: Indigenous Ontological Perspectives from Amazonia Carla Jaime Betancourt Afterlives of Matter: Decay and the Collaborative Rewriting of Indigenous Histories Mariana Françozo
12:15-12:30	Conclusion of Conference
13:00-15:00	Conference Picnic
19:00–20:00	Performance of vRot with Nelisiwe Xaba Venue: Adam Small Theatre