Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Sunday, 16.10.2022, 14:00–15:30
Discussion: Networked Images and Family Life
Diana Markosian, Christmas Morning, 2019, from the series Santa Barbara, 2019–2020 © Diana Markosian and Galerie Les filles du Calvaire
Children learn to pose in front of the camera at an early age, make video calls to relatives or watch themselves grow up in digital baby photos; parents publicly stage their offspring and family life in social media. In a conversation with education researcher Jutta Wiesemann and media psychologist Isabel Willemse, we discuss how these phenomena shape everyday family life.
The event takes place in German.
Admission: free admission, plus admission to the exhibition
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.
The event takes place in German.
Admission: free admission, plus admission to the exhibition
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.
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