A Saturday at Fotomuseum Winterthur: Short guided tours, Photo Rally, street food and more
Fotomuseum Winterthur offers insights into the newly opened exhibition Street. Life. Photography, the current SITUATIONS cluster The Right to Look and recently developed art education programmes.
Street. Life. Photography
Fleeting encounters in the streets of international metropolises, calm suburban scenes, thriving thoroughfares, quirky everyday settings – street photography presents the diversity of our urban spaces and the people who live in them. The exhibition Street. Life. Photography and its five kaleidoscopically arranged sections with different thematic approaches offer a range of very different perspectives on city life and ways of photographing the street. Short guided tours at 13:00 and 15:00 give visitors an insight into the exhibitions and the works on display.
SITUATIONS/The Right to Look
The politics of seeing and being seen, looking and being looked at, of being recognised and acknowledged are always related to power interests that shape our social reality. In the photographic image, a multitude of gazes not only encounter each other, but are never neutral. SITUATIONS/The Right to Look presents artistic, cultural and curatorial strategies that reveal, critically question, thwart and re-occupy the power dynamics of the gaze. Short guided tours at 14:00 and 16:00 give visitors an insight into the exhibitions and the works on display.
Photo Rally
Photo Rally offers a digital street photography experience in public space. In a game that can be played on a smartphone or tablet, participants go on a photographic foray and take pictures of their own observations and encounters in urban space. The game Photo Rally offers an insight into the exhibition Street. Life. Photography and combines those insights with a variety of photography tasks. The rally can be played anywhere and works independently of the exhibition visit. Also suitable for families.
Tablets can be borrowed on site. Further information on Photo Rally will be available to visitors at the information desk from 12:00-18:00. Get Photo Rally here.
battlefield #146
intervention by Jérôme Leuba The work battlefield #146, a living sculpture, created by Geneva-based artist Jérôme Leuba for the exhibition Street. Life. Photography, blurs the boundaries between performers and visitors. Seemingly familiar situations and sceneries become ambiguous: Who performs, who doesn't? Whose presence is accidental and what (re)actions are intended? How do the different behaviours affect us and our sense of space? The intervention questions the relationship between body and (museum) space and at the same time raises questions of the (in)visibility and the power of the gaze. Supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
Programme:
11:00–18:00
battlefield #146 – intervention by Jérôme Leuba
11:00–17:30
Street Food
12:00–18:00
Information desk Photo Rally
13:00–13:30
Short guided tour Street. Life. Photography (register here)
13:30–15:00
Workshop for parents and adolescents: Click & Share – My Images on Social Media (register here)
14:00–14:30
Short guided tour SITUATIONS/The Right to Look (register here)
15:00–15:30
Short guided tour Street. Life. Photography (register here)
16:00–16:30
Short guided tour SITUATIONS/The Right to Look (register here)
The guided tours and the workshop will take place in German.
Admission:
Short guided tours: admission to the exhibition (CHF 10.–/8.– (reduced)), for members: free admission
Photo Rally: 10.–/8.– (reduced)
Workshop: 8.– / 6.– (for members)