The Body and Us

Controversial debates on gender politics, discourses on the (post)colonial legacy in cultural institutions and society, artistic and scientific contributions on gender fluidity and queerness: what these highly complex and diverse topics have in common is that they place the body at the centre of their debates. Artistic photography takes up these themes and the body is questioned, constructed and postulated in its political, sexual or cultural identity. In doing so, the medium of photography benefits from the power of an instrument of emancipation, which in the past not only depicted people or bodies, but also discriminated and categorized them.

Moderator: Delphine Bedel

Lectrurers: Lucia Halder (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum) & Sophie Charlotte Opitz (Museum Vill Rot) & Lebohang Kganye (artist), Doris Gassert (Fotomuseum Winterthur), Delpine Bedel (artist and curator) & Antonio Cataldo (Fotogalleriet Oslo) & Miki Gebreleul (Fotogalleriet Oslo)

Introduction & Dialogue 1

Heide Häusler (Photoszene Köln), Lucia Halder (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum) & Sophie Charlotte Opitz (Museum Vill Rot) & Lebohang Kganye (artist)

Dialogue 2

Doris Gassert (Fotomuseum Winterthur) & Delpine Bedel

Dialogue 3

Antonio Cataldo & Miki Gebreleul (Fotogalleriet Oslo) & Delphine Bedel