Sarah Tuck
AVD-/SEKTIONSCHEF, INST
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Dr Sarah Tuck is a post-doctoral researcher in Photography and Human Rights, a collaborative initiative of Valand Academy, Gothenburg University and the Hasselblad Foundation in Sweden. Her work has traversed a wide range of situated practice, including community development, post conflict processes and institutional networks where questions of agency, knowledge production and representation have always been central. Her work in this area has included curation of the eighth edition of Ulster University Festival of Art and Design in 2016, leading the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland, Create, to the publishing and dissemination of ideas on the ‘public sphere’ and agonism. She is the author of After the Agreement – Contemporary Photography in Northern Ireland (2015) a curated research project which explores the affective meanings of images and the socio-political context of post Agreement.
The research project Drone Vision (2016-2018), a collaborative initiative between Valand Academy and Hasselblad Foundation explores the affects and implications of drone technologies on warfare, surveillance and protest. Of particular interest is how drone technologies impact on conceptualisations of human rights and the ways in which the affective meanings of drone vision are marked by emotional, ethical, political and social mediations, not least the lived experience and effects of conflict, and the proximity and physical distance to drone warfare. As such it is an attempt to bring critical debates on drone technologies more fully into line with the proliferating verticalities of urban development and surveillance, and the corollary of US led drone warfare that targets the ‘Muslim’ body and is co-extensive with the increased Islamophobia in the cultures of everyday life in the West. In order to avoid any totalising logic of sovereign politics or the affective meaning of seeing without being seen, a series of roundtables with international photo based artists, critical theorists, and activists will be hosted in Gothenburg in 2017 to consider drone vision in the dual dimension of colonial use and decolonial potential. The material from the three roundtables will be published on the partner websites in Sweden, Cyprus and Pakistan as part of a shared research process that will culminate in a triptytch of exhibitions in 2018 at the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus and the Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery in Lahore, Pakistan. While the curatorial research led by Hasselblad Center, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre and the Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery is shaped by the same questioning of the colonial use and the decolonial potential of drone technology, the resultant exhibitions in each gallery will be informed by the artists commissioned and the complex realpolitik and histories of place. In this way the curated research will look to explore if and how drone vision can be mobilised as part of a pedagogical political culture of being in common that has effects on political and artistic praxis and counters the vertical cartographies of imperial expansion and drone warfare.
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Watched by Drones. Photographic Surveillance in Art, War and
Protest.
Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers, Svea Bråunert
(W)archives. Archival Imaginaries and Contemporary Wars. Agostinho, D, Gade, S, Thylstrup N, Veel, K., (red.) - 2021-01-01 -
Drone
Alliances
Sarah Tuck
Fragmentation of the photographic image in the digital age edited by Daniel Rubinstein. - 2020-01-01 -
Watching Murder
Online
Sarah Tuck
Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self - 2018-01-01 -
Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest - co presented with Louise Wolthers, Hasselblad Foundation at 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY & THEORY
Photographies and Conflict: Archiving and Consuming Images of Strife
November 22-24, 2018
Nicosia,
Cyprus
Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers
Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest - 2018-01-01 -
Gray’s School of Art Research Conference – SPACE & SPATIALITY IN CREATIVE PRACTICE, Friday Oct 5, 2018, Aberdeen,
Scotland
Sarah Tuck
The Curatorial as Research Method and Practice - 2018-01-01 -
Public and Private Selves - panel discussion at Tate Modern, July
2018
Sarah Tuck
Panel Discussion - 2018-01-01 -
Drone Vision and
Protest
Sarah Tuck
Photographies - 2018-01-01 -
Watching Murder Online
Presented at Photography in Print and Circulation Symposium
Valand Academy/Hasselblad Foundation
17 November,
2016
Sarah Tuck
Chapter - Watching Murder Online - in Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self by Charlotte Cotton (Author), Marina Chao (Editor). Copublished by Aperture and the International Center of Photography - 2018-01-01 -
Drone Vision- Warfare, Surveillance and Protest – paper presented with Louise
Wolthers, (W)Archives Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark – August
21-22,
2017.
Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers
see: http://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/focus/uncertainarchives/activities/warchives/ - 2017-01-01 -
Drone Vision: Surveillance and Protest – paper presented at Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis, University Leiden and Center for Research in Material Cultures, Leiden, Netherlands, Dec 13-15,
2017
Sarah Tuck
see: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2017/05/art--activism - 2017-01-01 -
Disrupting the Asymmetry of Drone Vision – paper presented at The Left Conference – Photography and Film Criticism, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Nov 16-18,
2017
Sarah Tuck
see: https://photographyandtheleft.wordpress.com/ - 2017-01-01 -
Drone Vision – paper presented at Bending the Frame
symposium, Preus Museum, Oslo, Norway, Oct 17,
2017
Sarah Tuck
see website: http://www.preusmuseum.no/eng/layout/set/print/Explore-the-Museum/Events/Calendar/Seminar-Bending-the-Frame - 2017-01-01 -
Performing the Drone
- Responding to critical questions raised by the politics and aesthetics of drone technologies, through creative practice at Ulster University, Coleraine Campus (supported by the British Academy) - April 12-13, 2017. (see:
http://performingthedrone.com)
Sarah Tuck
published as website - Performing the Drone - 2017-01-01 -
Drone Vision – paper presented at Critical Issues In Photography Today – photographies Conference, Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, London, May 18-19,
2017
Sarah Tuck
see website - https://www.westminster.ac.uk/photographies-conference-critical-issues-in-photography-today - 2017-01-01 -
Drone Vision – paper presented at Changing Views - Documentary Perspectives on Human Rights, 19-20 September, Västerbottens Museum, Umeå,
Sweden
Sarah Tuck
see website: http://80.244.87.144/en/se-and-gora/kalendarium/2017/changing-views.html - 2017-01-01 -
After the Agreement - Contemporary Photography in Northern
Ireland
Sarah Tuck
- 2015-01-01