Photography & the Contemporary
Imaginary
The research hub at LCC brings together practitioners and theorists to explore
and promote photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a
collective imaginary. Specifically, we are interested in the increasingly
complex research methodologies that underpin fine art photography as a form
of knowledge with its own epistemology. Particular emphasis will be given to
photographic works that explicitly engage with contemporary thought; theories
that engage with contemporary photography; as well as photographic images
and philosophies of the image that contribute to how the imaginary is invested
in photographic production and the 'as if' condition of the photographic image.
The Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub builds on
London College of Communication's international reputation for conceptual
photography.
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Contact
[email protected]
Publication
The Skin of the Image (PDF 3MB)
Blog
http://writing-photographs.tumblr.com
Key members
Past events
2015/16 events
The Theatre of Photography: part three, Research network; held on 8 July 2016
Daniela Cascella: Writing workshop with prompts and other exercises.
Participants: student speakers from Writing Photographs lecture series, plus
other students, staff and alumni: David
Dawson, Albert Gualtieri, James Wilde, Ernst Schlogelhofer, Jacqui Taylor,
Brenda Vega, Sabrina Fuller, Marcia Michael, Beverley Carruthers, Wiebke
Leister, Esther Teichmann. Writing Photographs; 22 June, 2.00-6.00, Roof
Studio, Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
Kreidler/O’Leary: ‘Word, Image and Situated Practice’. In this cross-platform
survey we shall examine a number of works, looking specifically at the role of
word and image in our nomadic, situated practice. How do words - and, by
extension, the architecture of sentences, paragraphs and essays - operate within,
beside and beyond the image to open and communicate meaning? Kreider +
O’Leary are a poet and architect who collaborate to make work in sites such as
prisons, military sites, film locations, landscape gardens and desert
environments. Dr Kristen Kreider is Reader in Poetry and Poetics at Royal
Holloway, University of London. James O’Leary is Lecturer in
Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College
London. Writing Photographs. Student presentations: Albert Gualtieri (BAP3),
David Dawson (BAP3), Brenda Vega (MAP); held on 15 June 2016.
Hayley Newman: 'The Touch of an Eye'. The written images in the worlds I
create operate as both smokescreen and window; denying and giving access to
an event. I do not try to represent things truthfully, rather extend the visual
world inwards and outwards to encompass that which is visually observed,
what is experienced by other organs and senses and what can be
imagined. Hayley Newman, visual artist, Reader in Fine Art and co-ordinator
of the practice-led PhD option at Slade School of Fine Art, University College
London (UCL). Author of the novella Common, written as self-appointed
artist-in-residence in the City of London in 2011 and member of the art/activist
collective Liberate Tate, she is committed to working collectively around the
current ecological and social crisis. Writing Photographs. Student
presentations: Marcia Michael (PhD), Patricia Sarmiento Lozano (BAP3),
Sabrina Fuller (MAP); held on 8 June 2016.
Book launch: The Skin of the Image,
download the publication, held on 1 June 2016.
Adrian Rifkin: ‘Talking Writing into a Corner, or on research without ends’.
Adrian Rifkin works with film and cinema, classical and popular music,
canonical art and mass imagery, literature and pornography. Until recently he
was Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths. Website and blog: Gai Savoir
Writing Photographs. Student presentations: Asa Johanesson (PhD), James
Wilde (BAP3), Jessie McLaughlin (MAP15); held on 1 June 2016.
The Theatre of Photography: part two, Research network. Participants: Wiebke
Leister, Joel Anderson, Edward Dimsdale, Catherine Grant, Dionysis Livanis,
Phillip Prodger, Alice Maude-Roxby, Jelena Stojkovic, Duncan Wooldridge,
Manuel Vason; held on 12 February 2016.
Andrew Goffey: ‘Click, Tic and Spasm: Guattari, Attention, and the
Abstraction of the Face’.
Photography & Theory Talk. Held on Wednesday 2 March 2016.
Peter Osborne: ‘Edgar Martins - BMW at Munich: Production paused,
Industrial time suspended’. Photography & Theory Talk. Held on Wednesday
27 January 2016. Diarmuid Costello: ‘Spontaneity & Materiality: What
Photography is in the Photography of
James Welling’. Photography & Theory Talk. Held on Wednesday 1
November 2015.
Research network. Participants: Wiebke Leister, Joel Anderson, Edward
Dimsdale, Catherine Grant, Dionysis Livanis, Phillip Prodger, Alice MaudeRoxby, Jelena Stojkovic, Duncan Wooldridge, Manuel Vason; this event took
place on 12 February 2016.
2014/15 events
Hysterical Art. Invited participants: Sal Anderson, Karen Adwyer, Beverley
Carruthers, Nicky Coutts, Errol Francis, Matthew Gartry, Stephen Haller, Julia
Johnston, Ahmed Khaldoon, Wiebke Leister, Peter Matthews, Carol Noble, Liz
Orton, Daniel Regan, Daniel Saul, Dolly Sen, Mo Throp,
Maria Walsh, Hannah Zeilig. Collaboration with ArtBrain. Thursday 9 July
2015, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios: Research Forum.
The Theatre of Photography Invited participants: Joel Anderson, Nicky Coutts,
Edward Dimsdale, Catherine Grant, Claire Hudson, Simon Jones, Wiebke
Leister, Alice Maude-Roxby, Phillip Prodger, Jelena Stojkovic, Val Williams,
Marta Weiss, Duncan Wooldridge. Collaboration with PARC & ‘Moose on the
Loose’ biennale of research. Friday 15 May 2015, Swedenborg
Society: Research Forum
Yve Lomax: ‘Photographs, Writing’ Photography Research Lecture.
Wednesday 11 March 2015
Anne Tallentire: ‘Photography and Action’. Wednesday 4 March 2015, LCC:
Photography
Research Lecture.
Mark Durden: ‘On Photography Today’. Wednesday 28 January 2015, LCC:
Photography &
Theory Talk.
Charlie Gere: ‘Photography in the Age of Networks’. Wednesday 15 January
2014, 4.30, LCC:
Photography & Theory Talk.
Carol Mavor: ‘Auerlian Sadism; Turning the Fairy Tale’s Golden Key’.
Collaboration with
TrAIN. Wednesday 10 December 2014, LCC: Photography Research Lecture.
Ingrid Pollard. Collaboration with TrAIN. Wednesday 19 November 2014,
LCC: Photography
Research Lecture.
Jenifer Chao: ‘Faces of Insurgents: Visualizing The Taliban’. Collaboration
with
TrAIN Wednesday 12 November 2014, LCC: Photography Research Lecture.
Christopher Pinney: ‘How to Study World System-Photography’.
Wednesday11 June 2014, LCC:
Photography & Theory Talk.
The Skin of the Image. Presentations by Victoria Ahrens, Beverley Carruthers,
Deborah Cherry,
Edward Dimsdale, Chantal Faust, Wiebke Leister, Peter D. Osborne, Dallas
Seitz, Paul Tebbs,
Esther Teichmann. Thursday 5 June 2014, LCC: Photography Conference
Forum.
John Roberts: ‘Photography and its Violations’. Wednesday 14 May 2014,
4.30, LCC:
Photography & Theory Talk.
Deborah Cherry: ‘Revenants and returns in the photography of Maud Sulter’.
Collaboration with
LCC Graduate School. Thursday 8 May 2014, LCC: Photography Research
Lecture.
Sarah James: ‘Bernd & Hilla Becher: Re-enchanting the Every Day &
Resisting
Reification?’ Tuesday 29 April 2014, 4.30, LCC: Photography & Theory Talk.
Photography Research Show. Participants: Jananne Al-Ani, Beverley
Carruthers, Robin Silas
Christian, Edward Dimsdale, Matthew Hawkins, Claire Hooper, Tom Hunter,
Mark Ingham,
Melanie King, Wiebke Leister, Paul Lowe, Dallas Seitz, Tansy Spinks, Monica
Takvam, Esther
Teichmann, Val Williams. Practice Forum and Private View on Thursday 27
March. Monday 24 –
31 March 2014, Nursery Gallery, LCC.
Daniel Rubinstein: ‘Photography as the Remedy to the Abyssal Logic of
Desiring
Machines’. Wednesday 26 February 2014, LCC: Photography & Theory Talk.
Howard Caygill: 'Staging Atrocity: Genet and the mis-en-scene of Shatila'.
Friday 1 November
2013, LCC: Photography Research Lecture.
Photography and the Imaginary. Presentations by Cathy Greenhalgh, Sally
Waterman, Peter D.
Osborne, Sophy Rickett, Corinne Silva, Paul Bevan, Fagner Bibiano, Paul
Tebbs, Edward
Dimsdale, Fernanda Albertoni, Tim Stephens. Friday 17 May, LCC:
Photography Conference
Forum.
Margaret Iversen: 'Analogue: on Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean'. Tue 19 Mar
2013, LCC:
Photography Research Lecture.
Photography Research Show. Participants: Beverley Carruthers, Nicky Coutts,
Edward Dimsdale,
Cameron Haynes, Wiebke Leister, Sophy Rickett, Dallas Seitz, Corinne Silva,
Patrick Sutherland,
Monica Takvam, Val Williams, Lauren Winsor, Cemre Yesil. Practice Forum
and Private View on
Mon 11 March. Monday 4 – Friday 15 March 2013, Well Gallery, LCC.
Photography Research Forum presentations. Friday 8 February 2013, LCC.