ON TIME is a collaboration between Fotogalleriet, Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Preus Museum and University College for the Creative Arts

Register by 16 October with Forbundet Frie Fotografer
Tel: +47 22 20 20 70
Email: fff@fotogalleriet.no
Fee: NOK 150 including food and beverages (NOK 100 for students and members of FFF)

This event is sponsored by University College for the Creative Arts, Fritt Ord and Norsk Kulturråd



Programme

Video and film have like never before acquired a ubiquitous position in the art field. With the recent tendencies towards documentary and narrative, we see the various strategies and institutions of television and cinema becoming more closely integrated into the visual arts. Video and film is becoming a broader, more complex and richer field of enquiry. In light of this, the seminar on time proposes a specific and historical question: What is the relevance of seeing these developments in relation to photographic discourses? The seminar on time takes this as a startingpoint for a critical and historical look at the interplay between still and moving images.


Chairperson of the day: Susan Bright

10.00: Registration

10.30: Introduction: Ida Kierulf

10.45: Sophie Howarth: ... just a way of taking up time

Sophie Howarth will set a framework for the day's discussions by showing a range of still and moving images and opening up questions about the relationships between them in terms of intention, production, encounter and interpretation.

11.30:Tea/coffee

12.00: Victor Burgin & Jonas Ekeberg: A conversation on the relation between photographic discourses and the moving image

The starting point of Jonas Ekeberg and Victor Burgin’s discussion is whether photography is a relevant discursive framework for video. They will start by drawing a map of what is meant by the term 'photographic discourse'. Their examination will look at the shift (back) from post-structuralist image-as-text thinking to a more phenomenological approach to images. They will then discuss these topics in relation to the medium of video, historically and with contemporary work. To conclude Victor Burgin will show examples from his recent works, discussing the relation between his photography and video work.

13.00: Lunch

14.00: Uriel Orlow: Still Motion Pictures

'Still Motion Pictures' will zoom into a twilight-zone where photography and the moving image at once overlap and radically differ from each other. Film and video's long-standing love affair with stillness is considered through the example of the cinematic close-up of the face, where tiny movements alter the status of the image. Zooming out from the face, video-art shows us these micro-movements and their potential to produce difference in the world at large. The presentation will include works by Ingmar Bergman, David Claerbout, Jaki Irvine, Chris Marker and Anne Tallentire.


14.45: Amar Kanwar: The Networks Within

Kanwar has established a distinctive voice, having directed and produced over 40 films which emerge from the exploration of an individual’s relation to the politics and psychologies of power, violence, sexuality and justice. He will talk about his approach to film making, and in particular his recent work Portraits. The work deals with the relation between photography and the moving image through an exploration of the portrait. Portraits will be exhibited at Fotogalleriet from 8 October – 6 November.


15.45:Tea/coffee

16.00: Panel discussion

17.30: Conclusion: Susan Bright


Participants:

Susan Bright
Writer and curator. She has recently programmed a series of National conferences around the history of British Photography and her first book Art Photography Now will be published at Thames and Hudson in Autumn 2005.

Victor Burgin
Artist and writer. Professor of Media Philosophy, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland; Emeritus Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; Millard Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London. His photographic and video works have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. Author of Thinking Photography, The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity, In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture, Some Cities, Shadowed, The Remembered Film, and other books.

Jonas Ekeberg
Curator and critic, Director at Preus Museum, Horten, the National Museum for Photography in Norway. Ekeberg has recently curated the exhibitions Similarities and Differences, New Norwegian Photography and Photography´s Expanded Field, Preus Museum 10 years. He is the editor of the forthcoming bilingual (Norwegian/English) magazine Om fotografi published by Preus Museum

Anna Fox
Photographer and video artist, Head of the BA Photography Programme at University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester

Sophie Howarth
Sophie Howarth is Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern. She has written on many aspects of modern and contemporary art and is the editor of Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs (Tate Publishing/ Aperture, 2005) and Film and Video Art (forthcoming from Tate Publishing in 2006).

Amar Kanwar
Amar Kanwar is an Indian artist and independent filmmaker who lives and works from New Delhi, India. His films have been shown extensively around the world and have achieved numerous international awards. The films primarily concern issues relating to the politics of power, violence, sexuality and justice. Kanwar won international recognition in the art world with his participation at Documenta XI. He was newly awarded The Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art 2005. The award is initiated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway to enhance exchange in international contemporary art and highlight the ongoing influence of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

Ida Kierulf
Art historian and curator, Director of Fotogalleriet (The Photographers’ Gallery), Oslo.

Uriel Orlow
Uriel Orlow is an artist and writer based in London. Working with video, photography, sound and text, he retrieves histories and memories from architectural spaces, archives, landscapes and the human body – locating meanings and narratives from the past in the present. Uriel Orlow's work has been shown in exhibitions and film-festivals internationally and is represented in a number of private and public collections. He recently published Re: the archive, the image and the very dead sheep (London: Double agents) together with Ruth Maclennan.

Eivind Røssak
Associated Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, HiT, Bö, currently participating on a research project on Media Aesthetics at the Institute of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He has published five books on photo, film, theory and literature.