The possible impossibilities of representation or Reading/making pictures: The production of meaning
calendar_month 29 Iul 2015, 00:00
This course aims to develop our skills in making and reading pictures and bodies of work, in deciphering representation and the relationship of our production to our position as global beings in relation to the local, with global implications. We will delve into the depths of our practice to analyse our position as social and cultural agents.Photography will be examined as/within: an act of mediation; visual anthropology/research; cross-cultural, critical artmaking; positionality and power; the personal and social context of production; subjecthood/objecthood (subjective means to objective ends); formal strengths; the blurring of fiction/non-fiction (documentary paradoxes); manufacturing consent; confronting the everyday/banal and depicting trauma/conflict; telling truths (the objective dilemma)/the truth of fiction, and other representational strategies.

Course leader
Jayce Salloum

Target group
Anyone interested in fine arts, especiall in photography; basic technical photography skills (printing and shooting) are required

Course aim
Students will have the opportunity to use the course as feedback and resource for their photography while they develop and present their own body of work in a critically engaged and supportive environment. Your photographic practice will serve as the primary substance of the course, as the focus of discussions, critiques and field trips/exercises/small assignments. This is an attempt to find the most appropriate way of presenting the experiential and conceptual, a way that challenges the narrow gaze of traditional contemporary art and photographic practices.

Fee info
EUR 680: Regular participation fee EUR 520: Reduced participation fee (for enroled students)

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Address: Franziskanergasse 5a
Postal code: 5020
City: Salzburg
Country: Austria
Website: www.summeracademy.at
E-mail: office@summeracademy.at
Phone: +43 662 842113