Thinking Photographs: Towards a contemporary theory of photography.
SATURDAY MARCH 27
11 am – 6 pm
Auditoriet, Moderna museet, Stockholm
Already the name photography suggests a theory, a particular conception of image-making by the agency of light. From the inception of photography, the question “what is photography?” has consequently followed the evolution of the medium. What is that we do when we engage with photographs? What is the nature of the photographic image? Yet this question has taken on new inflections as a rapidly transforming image culture defines or characterizes 21st century human communication.
Contributions are invited to explore contemporary thinking about photographs, various renewed attempts towards a 21s theory of photographs, as well as reflections upon photographic thinking, i.e. the ways that photographs think or that photographs themselves are capable of theorizing. Contributions will be both in the form of lectures, talks, papers, as well as presentations of visual projects by artists/practitioners.
PROGRAM SATURDAY MARCH 27
11.00 – 11.15 Introduction Jan-Erik Lundström
11.15 – 12.00 Damian Sutton, Delay and the glimpse of immanence: urgent, intuitive and productive time.
12.00 – 12.30 Tuomo Rainio, Picturing the unseen - from representation to vision.
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.00 Dawn Phillips, The Photographic Event: Addressing Philosophical Scepticism and Photographic Art.
14.00 – 14.45 David Tomas, The practice of a marginal history: Postphotography Beyond and Between the Photographic Image.
14.45 – 15.15 Ulf Lundin, Artist talk.
15.15 – 15.30 Paus
15.30 – 16.00 Paul Hansen, Artist talk.
16.00 – 16.30 Anna Kleberg, Artist talk.
16.30 – 17.15 Pieter Hugo, Artist talk.
17.15 – 17.20 Paus
17.20 – 18.00 Thinking Photographs: Towards a contemporary theory of photography with David Tomas, Damian Sutton, Dawn Phillips, Ulf Lundin, Anna Kleberg. Moderator Jan-Erik Lundström.
18.00 – 19.00 Bar & Music in Verkstan at Moderna museet.
Moderator: Jan-Erik Lundström is the director of BildMuseet, Umeå, a museum of contemporary art and visual culture.
Keynote: Delay and the glimpse of immanence: urgent, intuitive and productive time.
(SCO), Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies at The Glasgow School of Art, where he teaches on photography, cinema and new media.
Picturing the unseen - from representation to vision.
Keynote: The Photographic Event: Addressing Philosophical Scepticism and Photographic Art
(GBR), Research fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Keynote: The practice of a marginal history: Postphotography Beyond and Between the Photographic Image.
(CAN), Artist and anthropologist whose conceptually oriented multimedia and photographic works explore the cultures and transcultures of imaging systems.
Ulf Lundin is an artist working with photography, video and installations. With photographic issues as initial aproach, he examines how the camera can be used as a tool of power. His art also brings up questions about the ambiguity and the gaze of the camera.
Anna Kleberg, born in 1970, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Department of Photography, Stockholm in 1998.
Pieter Hugo will be speaking about his development and personal journey as a photographer- how the nature of his projects have changed, along with the avenues of showing the images.
Paul Hansen is a photojournalist based in Stockholm, Sweden. As a staff photographer for the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter his assignments, and self-initiated projects, take him all over the world - as well as just around the corner.
Thinking Photographs: Towards a contemporary theory of photography with David Tomas, Damian Sutton, Dawn Phillips, Ulf Lundin, Anna Kleberg. Moderator Jan-Erik Lundström.