[intermedia-info] Vortrag von Paul Willemsen im LfKF 23.11.2016 16:00

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Wir freuen uns sehr Sie zum Vortrag von Paul Willemsen 'A Matter of

Life and Death. Cemeteries, Heterotopias and Memento Mori: a
Photographic Journey' einladen zu können.

Mittwoch, 23.11.2016, 16:00 Uhr
Labor für Kunst und Forschung
Dürener Str. 89
City Passagen, 1. Stock
50931 Köln

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www.laborfuerkunstundforschung.de

A Matter of Life and Death
Cemeteries, Heterotopias and Memento Mori: a Photographic Journey

Philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault described heterotopias as
“real places - places that do exist and that are formed in the very
founding of society - which are  something like counter-sites, a kind
of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other
real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously
represented, contested, and inverted.” Cemeteries serve as fine
examples. These ‘enclosures’ will be discussed in relation to how
nowadays society and social practices interfere with these sites. The
starting point is a comparison of two pictures of a same graveyard and
small town (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) respectively shot by the
documentary photographers Walker Evans and Bernd & Hilla Becher. From
there a photographic journey through a changing world is undertaken,
focusing on incongruities prompted by the interaction between life and
death, tradition and modernity in different cultures and societies.

Paul Willemsen is a Belgian critic and curator. He has a background in
film studies and he specialises in lens-based media. From 1996 to 2012
has was director Argos, a centre for art and media in Brussels.

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