New Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices
International Workshop
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
16, 17 and 18 June 2017
This three-day workshop gathers international scholars and artists to reflect upon photographic practices that focus on the representations of natural and built environments in contemporary Europe. From different disciplinary perspectives that include art history, architecture, geography and archaeology, speakers address the many pressing issues that representations of natural and man-made landscapes bring into focus: national identity of the territory, political and historical context of urban expansion and the effect of human activity on land. The workshop furthermore gives an opportunity to identify elements of change and continuity in contemporary development of landscape as a genre, and how photography and lens-based media affect its visual models of representation.
The workshop is organized by Olga Smith and Stefanie Gerke. It is presented with the support of KOSMOS Programme at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Verein zur Förderung des Instituts für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte.
Attendance is free, no registration required. Language of the workshop is English. Further details here: http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/workshop-europaeische-landschaftsfotografie/
PROGRAMME
Friday, June 16
13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome: Michaela Marek (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
14.15 Introduction: Stefanie Gerke and Olga Smith (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Panel I: Picturesque Ideal and Images of Conflict
Chair: Charlotte Klonk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
14.45 Malcolm Andrews (University of Kent), Capturing the Wild – The Picturesque and Photography
15.15 Bettina Gockel (Universität Zürich), Picturesque Migration? On the Photographic Representation of Flight and Refugees
15.45 Coffee Break
16.15 Liz Wells (University of Plymouth), Hidden Histories and Landscape Enigmas
16.45 Discussion
17.30 Coffee Break
18.00 Artist Talk
Beate Gütschow (Berlin) in conversation with Stefanie Gerke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Saturday, June 17
Panel II: Landscape as Territory
Chair: Hannah Baader (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)
10.00 Danièle Méaux (Université de Saint-Étienne), Archaeology of Territory
10.30 Sonia Keravel (Ecole nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles) and Frédéric Pousin (CNRS-Paris), Photographers: Actors of Landscape Shaping. Emmanuelle Blanc’s Partnership with Two French Landscape Agencies
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Marta Dahó (Universitat de Barcelona)
Landscape and the Geographical Turn. Globalisation and the Crisis Questioning of Representation in Photographic Practices
12.00 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
Panel III: Urban Topographies
Chair: Angela Matyssek (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
14.00 Jordi Ballesta (Université de Saint-Étienne), Surveying the Italian Urban Sprawl – The case of Italy, Cross Sections of a Country
14.30 Raphaële Bertho (Université François-Rabelais), Les Grands Ensembles, Memory of a Future: A Photographic History
15.00 Discussion
15.30 Coffee Break
18.00 Artist Talk
Thomas Struth (Berlin) in conversation with Michael Diers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Introduction: Steffen Haug (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Sunday, June 18
Panel IV: Landscape and National Identity
Chair: Liz Wells (Plymouth University)
10.30 Antonello Frongia (Università RomaTre), Observation, Indictment and Participation: The Politics of Italian Landscape Photography in the 1970s and ’80s
11.00 Donna West Brett (University of Sydney), After 1989 – Photography and the German Landscape
11.30 Discussion
12.15 Lunch
Panel V: Beyond Human Perspective?
Chair: Stefanie Gerke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
13.30 Laura Breede (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig), Impossible Realities? Landscape and Architectural Photography Between Documentation and Fiction
14.00 Olga Smith (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), De-centring the Human Perspective in Landscape Photography
14.30 Discussion
15.00 End of Workshop
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