he symposium takes as its starting point the ongoing exhibitions by Daniel Jewesbury, Mirka Duijn and Nina Spiering at Röda Sten Konsthall – The Death of Venus and Paradise Pt. II. It opens with presentations by Mirka Duijn and Daniel Jewesbury, and visitors will have the opportunity to experience the works in their entirety. This will be followed by conversations between the artists and invited guests, discussing the works and the ideas they engage.
The conversations will explore in depth the themes of the respective works: for Duijn and Spiering, the ideological working of ideas of ‘nature’ and ‘beauty’, and how visual cultures shape patterns of attention and inattention in relation to the natural world ; for Jewesbury, how questions of desire, fantasy and myth might be reimagined today.
Central to the symposium, and linking both practices, are questions concerning the potential of film to function productively as an artistic medium in and through which research is conducted. In the artists’ works, film’s audio-visual and temporal dimensions interact with space to create new perspectives, experiences, and forms of knowledge.
Participants
Mirka Duijn, Daniel Jewesbury, Astrid von Rosen, Professor of Art History, Mats Jönsson, Professor of Film Studies and Director of GPS400: Centre for Collaborative Visual Research.
A complete list of participants will be published later.
