“Visual Engagements. Image Practices and Falconry”
convened by Yannis Hadjinicolaou

The Workshop „Visual Engagements. Image Practices and Falconry“ will mainly address common intersections between culture and nature such as Seeing/Not Seeing, Perspective (for instance Drones), Simulations (Material/Symbol), questions on Political Iconography, materials such as feathers as well as the Migration of Objects and Images. Falconry, is a living heritage, which is a deeply cultural practice at the same time.
Why do treatises in Early modern Period consider seeing as a form of hunting? How is this metaphor as well as flying itself manifested in images? And what is the relation to this since birds and especially falcons have a very sharp vision as well as space orientation? What are the common points between image practices and the iconic power of Falconry?
In addition to these theoretical and present-day considerations, artists working on Falconry will have a dialogue with a professional Arab falconer and a Bedouin poet, adding a further central point to the workshop namely the connection between theory and practice.

4. April, 2018 |DAY 1

13:30-13:45
Welcoming Remarks
Reindert Falkenburg/Martin Klimke/Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Abu Dhabi)

Chair: Yannis Hadjinicolaou

13:45-15:15
Andrea Pinotti (Milan): What is it like to be a falcon?
Robert Felfe (Hamburg): What does a falcon see? – Exploring the pictorial space around 1600

15:15-15:30 - Coffee Break

Chair: Reindert Falkenburg

15:30-17:00
Herman Roodenburg (Amsterdam): “Each believes to be his falcon”: exploring human-animal relations in images of falconry
Monika Wagner (Hamburg): Leather and Feather: material interactions

17:00-17:30 - Coffee Break

17:30-19:00
Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Abu Dhabi): Visual Engagements. Image Practices and Falconry
Andreas Beyer (Basel): Bilderfahrzeuge and Untranslatables

5. April, 2018 |DAY 2

Chair: Shamoon Zamir (Abu Dhabi)

11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30-13:00
Reindert Falkenburg (Abu Dhabi): Tracing Traces
Klaus Krüger (Berlin): Art is aimed at the eye. Gazes as arrows in the early modern era

14:30-16:00
Round Table Discussion with Mohammed Al Hammadi (Abu Dhabi), Ghada Khunji (Manama), Marcel Kurpershoek (Abu Dhabi) moderated by Gregor Stemmrich (Abu Dhabi)

16:00- 16:30 - Coffee Break

Chair: Yannis Hadjinicolaou

16:30-18:00
Christine Kleiter (Florence) and Gerhard Wolf (Florence): “...armed with shining Falcon eyes”. Raptors, terrain and prey
Tanja Michalsky (Rome): Bird’s-eye view. A topos of perspective in the field of surveying.