eikones Forum
Organizer:
Dennis Jelonnek, Aïcha Revellat
Dis/appearance in and of Photography – Basel
The history of photography has always also been a history of working against its disappearance — a disappearance that takes countless forms. We would like to focus our attention on this varied history. For the instability of photographic images and their carriers represents only one of the many ways in which photography as a material object, as a technical image medium, as a carrier of information and as a metaphor has entered and continues to enter into the semantic field of disappearance: for example, in the form of processes and states of disruption and noise, loss and absence, censorship, deletion and the dissolution of meaning; these phenomena affect individual images, their motifs, certain techniques; they occur and we encounter them in everyday life, in the professional handling of photographs and their artistic use in specific ways in each case. Last but not least, their occurrence should not be seen as fundamentally negative or catastrophic. Where something disappears, something potentially comes into being: attention and questions, unexpected possibilities and the potential for new developments.
We seek to shed light on the diverse forms of disappearance—both in terms of their deficits and their inherent opportunities—by exchanging with colleagues. We aim for a focused workshop format that will lead to the creation of a joint publication. This publication will gather a broad spectrum of phenomena of disappearance related to photographs and photographic media, presented in concise and compact case studies that also reflect the personal methodological approach of the author to the object/topic of investigation. These texts will form the basis for a series of discussions at DFK Paris and at eikones – Center for the Theory and the History of the Image in Basel.
Paris, 03. — 04. 07. 2025
03.07., 14.00 – 18.00
04.07., 10.00 – 16.00
Jan von Brevern (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Heather Diack (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Dennis Jelonnek (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris)
Markus Klammer (Universität Basel)
Megan Luke (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Lila Lee-Morrison (Lund University)
Katja Müller-Helle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University Leicester)
Basel 16. – 17. 10. 2025
16.10., 14.00 – 16.15
17.10., 09.30 – 17.00
Estelle Blaschke (Universität Basel)
David Bucheli (eikones, Universität Basel)
Eva Ehninger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Peter Geimer (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris)
Sophie Junge (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München)
Daniel Mayr (Berlin)
Aïcha Revellat (eikones, Universität Basel)
The events are designed as reading seminars (in German/English) in preparation of a publication. Personal registration with the organizers is required in order to receive the reader containing the texts to be discussed (Paris: Dennis Jelonnek, by June 15; Basel: Aïcha Revellat, by October 1). The number of participants is limited.
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