Upcoming
25.05.2024 / 15-19.30 at Vierte Welt Berlin
Images and Counter-Images: On Media Representations of Violence
Central to this first gathering of the discursive series “On(going) Trauma” are questions about representational limits and opportunities, image politics and selective framing processes of conveying war violence and traumatic events in mass media. What is at issue here is, on the one hand, the shift away from visual repetitions and reproductions of violence and, on the other hand, the creation of new methods and counter-images, as to communicate evidences of wars and conflicts. How can the atrocious images be made transparent, scrutinized, reframed? How can we learn the practice of looking at these images? Where are potentials for resistance, for visual dissent, for forming an opposition against the affects of shock and propagandistic visions? As part of this round, artists, researchers and all participants present, are invited and encouraged to discuss responses, challenges and new formats as to encounter media representations of war and trauma, the inherent power structures and the violence of images.
With Lela Ahmadzai, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Lada Nakonechna & Omer Fast
Hosted by Anna-Lena Werner & Mykola Ridnyi
As part of "On(going) Trauma" – Artistic narratives on collective and individual wounds. A discursive series in 6 parts. Organized by Elisa Müller / Institut für Widerstand im Postfordismus & Anna-Lena Werner
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ADA INVITATIONS [Forthcoming]
A publication resulting from the inter-institutional research project "Invitations – Archive as Event" (-> https://ada-invitations.de) between Freie Universität Berlin and Archiv der Avantgarden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and HKW Berlin, design by Studio Pandan, published by Spector Books, Leipzig, Spring 2024.
Editors: Annette Jael Lehmann, Rudolf Fischer, Anna-Lena Werner
Co-Editors: Marcelo Rezende, Helene Romakin