Fotomuseum Winterthur | Online Events, Events | Tuesday, 11.10.2022, 19:00–20:00
POSTPONED: Online Lecture and Discussion: Single Mums and Virtual Dads
Pixy Liao, It’s Never Been Easy to Carry You, 2013, from the series Experimental Relationship, 2007– © Pixy Liao
This event has been postponed from 06.10.2022 to 11.10.2022.
In her online lecture Single Mums and Virtual Dads, Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco will examine how artistic explorations of the Global North have reflected changes in contemporary families in the past sixty years. From Kodak’s patriarchal advertisements from the 1960s – intending to establish a concrete idea of a family to make photography’s new consumer-oriented industry become successful –, up to artistic deconstructions of familial constellations in the 1980s, the online lecture reveals how the normalised idea of family began to be challenged through art photography.
Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco (*1981 in Zamora, ES) is contributing author of the publication ChosenFamily – Less alone together. As a lecturer in digital media practice in the department of sociology at Lancaster University, her interdisciplinary and practice-oriented expertise is focused on visual research methods, image-based activism and media practices in the context of migration and kinship.
The event is free, will be held in English and takes place on Zoom. Details on how to access the online lecture will be confirmed upon registration. Register here.
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.
In her online lecture Single Mums and Virtual Dads, Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco will examine how artistic explorations of the Global North have reflected changes in contemporary families in the past sixty years. From Kodak’s patriarchal advertisements from the 1960s – intending to establish a concrete idea of a family to make photography’s new consumer-oriented industry become successful –, up to artistic deconstructions of familial constellations in the 1980s, the online lecture reveals how the normalised idea of family began to be challenged through art photography.
Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco (*1981 in Zamora, ES) is contributing author of the publication ChosenFamily – Less alone together. As a lecturer in digital media practice in the department of sociology at Lancaster University, her interdisciplinary and practice-oriented expertise is focused on visual research methods, image-based activism and media practices in the context of migration and kinship.
The event is free, will be held in English and takes place on Zoom. Details on how to access the online lecture will be confirmed upon registration. Register here.
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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