Workshop at the ICI Berlin

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D-10119 Berlin

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The Unsettled Image

The Weimar years are widely considered to have been marked by a flourish
of media optimism, particularly with regard to photography. But to what
extent was the era’s great creativity in these media a result of
misgivings as well as enthusiasm? This Workshop aims to outline these
countervailing tensions circling around photography. It will offer a
series of substantive case studies in which photography, either as a
practice or paradigm, failed to accommodate the multifaceted complexity
of modernity and therefore required far more invention, including an
appeal to the non-visual senses. Considering these turbid but productive
pressures on photographic media, we will inquire into the repressed side
of modern looking in Weimar culture.

When was vision obstructed, space made ethereal, and the eyes shut by
media that were supposed to in fact enhance perception? How much did
photography’s failure in these regards contribute to the near desperate
efforts to reinvent the medium as a new and different form of vision?
And how did this productive tension impact other media which had
studiously attended to photography as their model? These are ?the
questions our workshop will bring to the radically unsettled
photographic image of Weimar.

Organized by An Paenhuysen und Andres Zervigon

Andres Mario Zervigon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers
University in New Jersey, USA. He specializes in the history of
photography and concentrates his scholarship on the interaction between
photographs, film and traditional fine art images.

An Paenhuysen is an assistant curator at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum
für Gegenwart – Berlin and a lecturer in the History Department of the
Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Currently, she is working on a study of
urban photobooks in Weimar Berlin.

Flyer
<http://www.ici-berlin.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Events/10_11/1101_Unsettled_Image/ICI_E-Flyer_Unsettled_Image.pdf>

Programme

Thursday, January 27, 2011, 8pm

Keynote Lecture: Susanne Foellmer, Valeska Gert. Bildlichkeit als
kritische Praxis <http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/357/>

Friday, January 28, 2011, 1pm – 5pm
The afternoon workshop features talks by period scholars in film,
literature, and photography itself, as well as a contemporary artist
concerned with photography’s productive insufficiency.

Andres Zervigon, Photos that Punch!

An Paenhuysen, Dynamics of the Metropolis

Juergen Staack, Beispiele aus den Arbeiten 2005 – 2010

Hanne Bergius, Die Fotografie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Montage und
Metamechanik

Alena Williams, Intangible Work: The Unsettled Images of the AEG

The workshop is open for public. RSVP for Jan. 28th event by Jan. 24,
2011 stating your interest in the subject, to info(at)ici-berlin.org

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Friday, January 28, 2011, 8pm

Zwischenakte. Three passage in Cinema, a film program curated by Alena
Williams at Kino Arsenal, in the framework of the workshop

Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin
U + S-Bhf Potsdamer Platz
www.arsenal-berlin.de <http://www.arsenal-berlin.de>