Debate / Meeting
Colloquium Allan Sekula
Photography at work
28 Jun 2013
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An artist, theorist and teacher, born in 1951 in Erie, Pennsylvania, Allan Sekula now lives in Los Angeles. After a period specialising in performance art, since the 1970s he has examined the political, economic and social conditions of advanced capitalism using photography, text and film simultaneously. Sekula has always been concerned with the representation gaps affecting certain worlds, those of work, economic flows and education. To mark the release of his early theoretical texts in French, this symposium will examine the working of the text with images.
An artist, theorist and teacher, born in 1951 in Erie, Pennsylvania, Allan Sekula now lives in Los Angeles. After a period specialising in performance art, since the 1970s he has examined the political, economic and social conditions of advanced capitalism using photography, text and film simultaneously. Sekula has always been concerned with the representation gaps affecting certain worlds, those of work, economic flows and education. To mark the release of his early theoretical texts in French, this symposium will examine the working of the text with images.
In the presence of Allan Sekula. With Marie Muracciole (Art Critic, Exhibition Curator) who oversaw the organisation / Tamar Garb (Art Historian), Carles Guerra (Artist, Art Critic, Head Curator at the MACBA in Barcelona, Author of Conversations with Photographers. Allan Sekula speaks with C. Guerra), Benjamin Young (Art Historian and Philosopher), Hilde Van Gelder (Art Historian), Tom Keenan (Theorist in Comparative Literature, Director of the Human Rights Project) and Benjamin Buchloh (Art Historian, Professor at Harvard).
In connection with the “Film” programme.
When
11:30am - 7pm
Where
Partners
Avec le soutien de la Terra Foundation for American Art Europe
