Artist Meets Archive Symposia

Inga Schneider stands at a lectern. Behind her on a screen you can see the Artist Meets Archive logo.

Artist Meets Archive #3

RESEARCH MEETS ARTIST

As part of Artist Meets Archive #3, a dialogical symposium entitled Research Meets Artist took place, in which the Artist Meets Archive artists met academic positions in four open dialogues.

More about the Symposium

Artist Meets Archive #2

ONLINE-SYMPOSIUM: THEORIE UND PRAXIS DES ARCHIVS

In cooperation with the German Photographic Society (DGPh), section "History & Archives", the University of Hildesheim Foundation and the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

The symposium took place as an online event and was streamed live on our website and on dringeblieben.de. Both days of the symposium were recorded and can also be watched afterwards.

Friday May 21, 2 - 6 p.m.
Scientific lectures and moderated discussions with invited speakers (German)
Alexa Färber and Işıl Karataş (University of Vienna, AT), Lena Holbein (Goethe University Frankfurt), Charlotte Praetorius (University of Hildesheim Foundation), Esther Ruelfs (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) and Alexander Streitberger (Université de Louvain, BE).
Moderation: Stefanie Diekmann (University of Hildesheim Foundation)

Saturday, May 22, 1 - 5 p.m.
Keynote speeches and talks with all five Artist Meets Archive artists, followed by a panel discussion (English)
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne), Philipp Goldbach (Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne), Anna Orłowska (Deutsches Tanzarchiv Cologne), Rosângela Rennó (Stiftung Rheinisch Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln), Joan Fontcuberta (Central Archive of the German Aerospace Center).
Moderation of the lectures and the panel discussion: Stefanie Diekmann and Alexander Streitberger

The symposium "Artist Meets Archive - Theory and Practice of the Archive", which takes place within the framework of Photoszene United and was conceived in connection with the exhibition series "Artist Meets Archive" of the International Photoszene Cologne, will deal over two days with a spectrum of artistic and theoretical positions that have been developed on the photographic archive, its structure, its function and its aesthetics. The contributions on the first day from the disciplines of art and media studies as well as ethnology will deal with various positions ranging from local intervention to documentary film. On the second day, the artists invited to the "Artist Meets Archive #2" 2020/2021 program will present their projects and provide insights into their one-year development process, in which they have gained their very own view of the respective archives. The artist talks will conclude with a panel discussion to compare the respective positions and interventions.

In principle, it can be assumed that artistic access to the photographic archive should be regarded as a form of research in its own right, and that this often brings aspects and facets of a photographic archive into focus that would otherwise go unnoticed or unheeded. The special potential of the artistic approach to photographic archive holdings and the question of which perspectives on the archive are conveyed through them is therefore at the center of the contributions and discussions.

Supported by the dive in. Program for Digital Interactions of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) in the NEUSTART KULTUR program.

Artist Meets Archive #2

Artist Meets Archive #1

PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS: ARCHIVES AND TOOLS

A symposium was held by the KHM, the Internationale Photoszene Köln and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).

Over two days, the symposium dealt with questions about the materiality of photography. Methods of (post)photographic engagement with the medium, such as virtual reality, 3D photography or augmented reality, were presented. Structural and institutional conditions for the transfer of photographic archives into a digital future were discussed, and curatorial and artistic strategies for their activation were examined.

Friday 3.5. New photographic tools?

1 p.m.: Welcome and introduction by Alex Grein, KHM and Beate Gütschow, KHM
1.20 p.m.: Joël Vacheron, ECAL, Lausanne Satellite Imagery and Planetary Imagination (engl.)
2.20 p.m.: Marco De Mutiis, Fotomuseum Winterthur / Hochschule Luzern The Photographer as Player as Worker (engl.)
3.20 – 4 p.m. Break and Walk through the exhibition‚A New Room of One`s Own’ by Karina Nimmerfall in Glasmoog – Raum für Kunst & Diskurs – KHM
4 p.m.: Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths University of London Undigital Photography (engl.)
5 p.m.: Lilian Haberer, KHM, Köln Merged Displays. On practices and material agencies of photography (engl.)

Saturday 4.5. The Future of Archives / Archives of the Future

10 a.m.: Welcome and introduction by Susanne Holschbach, DGPh and Inga Schneider, Internationale Photoszene Köln
10.20 a.m. Lucia Halder, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Kulturen der Welt, Köln Global Images? – Ethnographische Bildarchive im Aufbruch (german)
11.20 a.m. Sabine Folie, VALIE EXPORT CENTER LINZ „Superimposition“: Überlagerungen in Praktiken des Kuratierens und Archivierens (german)
12.20 a.m. – 1 p.m. Lunch Break
1 p.m.: Estelle Blaschke und Armin Linke, ECAL, Lausanne / Künstler, Berlin Image Capital (Lecture-Performance) (engl.)
2 p.m.: Madhusree Dutta,Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln The Crisis of Evidence: Memory Practices and Archiving (engl)

Subsequently, several exhibition openings will take place as part of the Photoszene Festival from 4 p.m. onwards.

Artist Meets Archive #1

  • Artist Meets Archive

    Research Meets Artist

    Dialogue Symposium on the Third Edition of Artist Meets Archive

    Rheinisches Bildarchiv im Historischen Archiv

  •   © Rôsangela Rennó / Stiftung RWWA (file #33-GN238)
    Artist Meets Archive

    Artist Meets
    Archive #2
    2020/21

    Photoszene Residencies
  •   © Silviu Guiman
    Artist Meets Archive

    Artist Meets
    Archive #1
    2018/19

    Photoszene Residencies
  • This website is using cookies to provide a good browsing experience
    These include essential cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site, as well as others that are used only for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, not all functions of the website may be available.
    This website is using cookies to provide a good browsing experience
    These include essential cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site, as well as others that are used only for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, not all functions of the website may be available.
    Your cookie preferences have been saved.