Silvia Gruner, The Middle of the Road, INSITE 1994

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY:IF WE FILL THE WORKSHOP TO CAPACITY26 AUGUSTWE WILL GIVE ALL PARTICIPANTS A 25% DISCOUNT

VISUAL ANALYSIS: 
IMAGE THRESHOLD

LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP
27 - 28 August, 3-4 , 10-11, 24 and 25 September, 2021

This course offers tools for visual analysis of various expressive-communicative mechanisms of the image.  

Various strategies and criteria for visual analysis will be discussed, based on cases of images in archives or the production of artists and managers and researchers who deal with processes of: intertextuality between photography and other plastic supports, discursive plots and archives, visual anthropology, image and living matter, experimental art and links between written and visual testimonies, different supports for visuals of social mobilisations, photographic recording of artistic processes as political criticism and photography of performing arts. 

The course consists of 8 sessions of 2 hours each.

AGENDA

SESSION 1. Photography and intertextuality with other visual media.

SESSION 2. Interculturality and intertextuality in the photographic image.

SESSION 3. Discursive plots and archiving.

SESSION 4. Visual anthropology and ethnographic photography.

SESSION 5. Image and living matter (artists and projects: kitchen editions, 

SESSION 6. Experimental art and links between written and visual testimonies.

SESSION 7. Authorial photography and photographic recording of artistic processes as political-artistic critique. 

SESSION 8. Image and the performing body: dance and theatre photography.
Objects by Antonina Matveyevna Voloshina (1924-2013), set in dialogue with art-books by Ioulia Akhmadeeva
Carlos Somonte. Punks. Mexico City. 1983/1987. 

EUGENIA MACÍAS

(Mexico City,1971) Professor-researcher, Master's Degree in Conservation of Documentary Assets, National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography (ENCRyM - INAH).

Restorer (ENCRyM - INAH), master in social anthropology [Ciesas] and PhD in art history [UNAM]. Specialising in photography, visual anthropology and 20th century art in Mexico, she has worked as a cataloguer, researcher and curator at the Fundación Televisa, the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM-INBAL), Centro de Documentación Arkheia/MUAC-UNAM. She has taught anthropology, art history and curatorial studies at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and the ENES-Morelia (UNAM). She has received the INAH Paul Coremans Award (2000), the Richard Gilder Fellowship (2008) from the American Museum of Natural History (USA) and, in 2015, the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association (USA) for co-authoring with Bill Broyles, Phillis La Farge and others a book on Carl Lumholtz (edited by the University of Texas at Austin). She has published and presented papers nationally and internationally for institutions or associations such as UAM, CNCA, LASA, CENCREM (Cuba), Caja Sur (Spain), among others.

REGISTRATION AND COSTS

COSTS

$ 1,900.00 mxn + VAT 
95 USD dls + tax

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS

20 -25 participants

DATES

27 - 28 August, 3-4 , 10-11, 24 and 25 September, 2021

SCHEDULE

Friday 17:00 to 19:00 hrs 
Saturdays 10:00 to 12:00 hrs
(Mexico City time)

REGISTER UNTIL

24 August, 2021
Loulia Akhmadeeva, Bukvar/Essay of a Protest, 2015. Facsimile of the author's first primary school textbook (1978,DDR,USSR), laser-printed on acetate from public domain images. Binding by ALTERnativa Gráfica
Silvia Gruner, La mitad del camino, INSITE 1994.

REQUIREMENTS

Payment of the registration fee
Workshop for people interested in the image, photography, aimed at the general public.

SCHOLARSHIPS

We offer 2 half scholarships. You can apply for them by sending a letter explaining your reason for applying to enlace@hydra.lat.