The event will be in German.
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Kategorie: Future
In conjunction with the Literaturhaus der Fotografie series: »Need a Light?«, Reading and discussion with Melanie Aufenvenne on the cultural history of smoking, moderated by Julia Vismann (rbb)
The event will be in German.
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»The New Smoking: An Artistic Perspective on Today’s Tobacco Industry«, talk with photographer Oliver Heise and Prof. Dr. Steffen Siegel, Professor of the Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts
The event will be in German.
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»Labour as Image, Gender as Medium: Women’s Work in the Industrial Archive, from the Filmfabrik Wolfen to Ramona Schacht«, slide presentation by Dr. Katerina Korola, Assistant Professor of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley (in English)
The image of woman worker played a critical role within the visual culture of socialist construction in the German Democratic Republic. Appearing in factory newspapers, lifestyle magazines, industrial films, and the photo-murals of international trade fairs, the working woman served as a metonym for the state and its reorganization of the relations of production. This talk asks what it means to re-encounter these images today, decades after the collapse of a state whose rhetoric had already begun to ring hollow. Beginning with the collection of the VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen, it examines the representational work of the woman worker within the archive of socialist industry, attending to the ideological uses to which these images were put, as well as the untold stories they might harbour. The archival practice of Ramona Schacht, here, serves as an important methodological inspiration—in its attention to the body, and in its insistence on the promise that these images contain, despite and in spite of their political instrumentalization.
Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose research explores the history of photography through an ecological lens. She is Assistant Professor of Media Historiography at UC Berkeley and is currently completing her first book, Picturing the Air: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere, which tells a history of air pollution as a photographic problem. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Representations, Photographica, and Transbordeur.
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Guided tour of the exhibition with artist Ramona Schacht and curator Stefanie Regina Dietzel, featuring a sound performance by Kyoco Taniyama
The event will be in German.
Free admission. Advance registration is required at: info@aestiftung.de