HPF09

SUOMI / SVENSKA

Symposium

Helsinki Photography Festival 2009
Symposium: Knowing Photographs
January 23-24, 2009

Place: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Auditorium
Address: Kaikukatu 4A, 00530 Helsinki, Finland

Symposium language: All presentations and discussions are held in English.

The symposium Knowing Photographs, arranged as a part of the Helsinki Photography Festival 2009, examines current photographic practices and methodologies. The symposium focuses in particular the resources of photographic knowledge, including complex renderings of time and space or the always current couplings of fact and fiction. As a set of related concerns, the symposium will as well address the ways that photographs engage unity or fragmentation, friction or correlation, past, present or futures in the relations they establish with the human world.

Addressing photography today means that a given starting point is the current post-medium condition of photography, structured by post-analogue 21st century technologies of communication. As the rubric of the symposium suggests the critical questions are: What is it that photographs know about the world? Is there a specifically photographic knowledge? And is there indeed a medium of photography, identifiable beyond the broad range of present-day photographic practices?

Participants include internationally invited critics/curators/researchers, asked to reflect upon these issues, and artists from the Aletheia exhibition, discussing and contextualizing their own practices.

The symposium program has been planned by curators Jan-Erik Lundström and Elina Heikka.

REGISTRATION

To register for the symposium please send an e-mail to info [at] hippolyte.fi. Please include your name, and days you plan to participate in the symposium

Registration and participation in the symposium is free of charge.

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

Friday, January 23: 11 AM – 5 PM

Moderator: Elina Heikka

11.00 – 11.15 Opening of the symposium: Ari Kakkinen, vice chair, Union of Artist Photographers

11.15 – 11.50 Jan-Erik Lundström: Knowing Photographs: Introduction to the seminar theme

11.50 – 12.30 Axel Strachnoy: On the Making of “Opening”

12.30 – 13.00 Nanna Hänninen: New Landscape

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Stephanie Grebe: Cognitive Desires. How to gain knowledge & what can be learnt by looking at photographs

15.00 – 15.30 Marja Pirilä: The Speaking House: Discussion with Elina Heikka

15.30 – 16.30 Johan Swinnen: The Majority World looks back

16.30 – 17.00 Discussion

19.30 Seminar Dinner. Please see below for more information.

Saturday January 24: 11 AM – 4.30 PM

Moderator: Jan-Erik Lundström

11.00 – 12.00 Jonas Ekeberg: 80 million pictures - Norwegian vernacular
photography 1855-2005

12.00 – 12.40 Emily-Jane Major: Photography Lost to Resemblance

12.40 – 13.20 François Bucher: Haute Surveillance

13.20 – 13.40 Coffee/Sandwich

13.40 – 14.20 Richard Whitlock: Expanded view photography:
The rejection of central perspective in art.

14.20 – 14.50 Michael Wesely

14.50 – 15.30 Carles Guerra: Antiphotojournalism

15.30 – 16.00 Chino Otsuka: Memoriography

16.00 – 16.30 Final discussion

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS