Visual ScepticismERC Advanced Grant

At the workshop “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past” held by the University of Amsterdam (NL) and the Concordia University, Montreal (CA) Winona Pawelzik will present her paper “Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization? Emeka Ogboh’s Work “At the Threshold” (2021)” in the...

Johanna Spanke has been awarded the gold medal in the category of photo theory at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook Prize) for her dissertation "Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen zwischen Mexiko und den USA" (Photomurals: Photographic Murals in Transnational Processes...

Magdalena Tonia Füllenbach presents her paper "Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900" as part of the conference of the research center "Hamburg's (Post-)Colonial Legacy" in the panel "(Anti)koloniale Inszenierung von Geschlecht" at the University of Hamburg...

Carla Guimaraes Hermann presents her paper “Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors: Denilson Baniwa’s Brasil Terra Indígena (2020) in São Paulo, Brazil” at the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg (14-16 November, 2024).

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At the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg (14-16 November, 2024), Johanna Spanke presents the paper “At home with Columbus: Tatzu Nishi's domestication of historical monuments and the inversion of public space”.

Date: 2024, November...

Winona Pawelzik presents her paper "Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization in Emeka Ogboh’s Work 'At the Threshold' (2021) at GRASSI, Leipzig“ as part of the The Developing Room's Ninth Graduate Student Colloquium "The Futures of Photography" at the Center for Cultural...