

Sat, 11 Feb
|Contemporary Art Platform
Speculative Horizons - Photography Symposium
Time & Location
11 Feb, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Contemporary Art Platform, Design Center، Shuwaikh Industrial, Kuwait
About the Event
1.00 pm
Dr Kristian Haggblom
Photography Expanded
Photography Expanded will outline and examine some photographic projects from Australia that push the use of lens-based practice in innovative and experimental ways. A focus will be on the presentation of long-form projects across exhibition, publishing and cyber platforms.
Video 1
Blake Dearman
The Inside of a Square
6.30 mins
1.30 pm
Lee Grant
A portrait! What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound? (Baudelaire, 1859)
Through some of my own images I will attempt to outline my own processes and concerns for working with fellow humans.
Lee Grant “Yuwinji Portraits”
Video 2
Joseph Blair
Oceans 32
3.50 mins
2.00 pm
Lunch Break
Video 3
Kuba Dorabialski
Broken English is My Mother Tongue
9 mins
2.45 pm
Jesse Marlow
Anything Can Happen and Probably Will
I love the uncertainty of what working on the street provides. The element of the unknown and the idea that I can leave the house one morning and come home with a photo that will be with me forever continues to excite me.
Video 4
Steven Rhall
US
1.36 mins
3.30 pm
The Photobook
Discussions
In this interactive session, symposium/exhibition guests will be invited to interact with the books accompanying the Speculative Horizons exhibition as objects. This will facilitate discussion on book ‘architecture’, narrative through sequencing and design.
4.00 pm
End