27 Nov 2020
Visual Politics of (Im-)Mobility
Online-Conference
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What role do images play in the production of meaning and the identity politics of nation states? In Italy, widely circulated tourism images are juxtaposed with photographs constantly reproduced in the media showing the arrival of refugees on Italian coasts. Their contents seem incompatible. In what contexts are these images shown, what is not visible and why were they made and reproduced?
Part of the series The Broken Archive – a cooperation of Villa Romana and HKW as part of The Whole Life: An Archive Project
with
Costanza Caraffa, Photothek - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Mohamed Keita, photographer
Armin Linke, artist
Massimo Ricciardo, artist
Reza Haidari, photographer /filmmaker, #everydaygolshahr