Intermedial networks of photography
ID
MSCA-22-KRuchelStockmans01
Supervisors
Project description
Photography is a ubiquitous practice that steadily entrenches itself in different spheres of the everyday, becoming part of complex networks of agents and uses. From the very beginning, photographic images entered various intermedial relations, making it challenging to distract what is purely photographic from other image-making techniques or textual components. Today, photography pervades not only the art production, the news, scientific or history writing, entertainment, or commercial networks, but also, paradoxically, the apparatuses of control and surveillance as well as various vernacular and grassroots practices. As such, photography is both the object of artistic or scholarly intervention and a possible vehicle for such interventions. I welcome research projects that engage with specific topics in intermedial networks of photography, especially relating to:
- Documentary strategies in artistic research
- Participant generated images and movements of dissent
- Critical (artistic) interventions in drone and surveillance imagery
- Decolonial approaches to photographic archives
- Reassessing the memory of the communist period in Eastern Europe through novel approaches to photographic practices
In my research, I focus on recent photographic and artistic practices dealing with historical events. In previous years, I have developed a particular interest in ways of visualizing history understood as a performative act. The performativity of images can be traced both in citizen reporter footage and in re- appropriations of historical representations in artistic practice (Images Performing History. Photography and Representations of the Past in European Art after 1989, Leuven (LUP) 2015). As a member of the research network “Drones and Aesthetics” I have been engaged in topics related to drone imagery. Currently, I investigate post-1945 vernacular photography in Eastern Europe.
About the research Group
Research group Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU)
The research group Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. We study not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes such as new media, visualisation of conflict and war, urbanisation, sustainability, multiculturality and globalisation. Key questions concern the circulation of images, artefacts, practices and knowlegde across boundaries. These cross-overs are understood as mutual interactions between the different arts and as exchanges between different cultures, traditions, regions or periods.