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Space and Photographic Spaces in Literature and in Virtual and Physical ArchivesTRANSCRIPT
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CONSTRUCTED SPACESSpace and Photographic Spaces in Literature
and in Virtual and Physical Archives
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Romi Mikulinsky (Ph.D)
March 28th, 2012
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The Construction of Space• Lewis Carrol• Georges Perec• The Bechers• Hans Peter Feldman• Roy E. Stryker• Hiroshi Sugimoto
• W. G. Sebald
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The Construction of Space
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Georges Perec
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Georges Perec
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Georges Perec
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Georges Perec
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Georges Perec
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Georges Perec
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The Bechers-
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The Bechers-
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Hans Peter Feldman-
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Hans Peter Feldman-
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Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration
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Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration
Holes/ punches mark the images as unacceptable
Video
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Sugimoto’s Theatres
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Sugimoto’s Theatres
I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural
History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-
answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a
whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I
sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I
walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as
the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when
the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and
the vision exploded behind my eyes. Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Sugimoto’s Theatres
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Atlas – Reconfiguring the Order of Things, Places, Times
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Atlas – Reconfiguring the Order of Things, Places, Times
“To make an atlas is to reconfigure space, to redistribute it, in short, to redirect it: to dismantle it where we thought it was continuous; to reunite it where we thought there were boundaries”
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Piecing Together the Order of Things
When we arrange different images or different objects — playing cards, for example — on a table, we are free to modify constantly their configuration. We can make piles or constellations. We can discover new analogies, new trajectories of thought. By modifying the order, we can arrange things so that images take positions.
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Piecing Together the Order of Things
A table is not made for definitively classifying, for exhaustively making an inventory, or for cataloguing once and for all – as in a dictionary, an archive or an encyclopaedia – but instead for gathering segments, or parcelling out the world, while respecting its multiplicity and its heterogeneity — and for giving a legibility to the underlying relations
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Piecing Together the Order of Things
This is why ATLAS shows the game to which numerous artists have given themselves, this “infinite natural history” (according to Paul Klee) or that “atlas of the impossible” (according to Michel Foucault regarding the disconcerting erudition of Jorge Luis Borges). We can discover, then, in what sense contemporary artists are “scholars” or inventors of a special genre: they gather the scattered pieces of the world as would a child or a rag-and- bone man – two figures to whom Walter Benjamin compared the authentic materialist scholar. They bring together things outside of normal classifications, and glean from these affinities a new kind of knowledge which opens our eyes to certain unperceived aspects of our world and to the unconscious of our vision
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Piecing Together the Order of Time
“It is therefore time itself which becomes visible in the montage of images. It is up to everyone – artist or scholar, thinker or poet – to make such a visibility into a power to see the times: a resource for observing history, for undertaking its archaeology and its political critique, for “dismantling” it in order to imagine alternative models.”•
Georges Didi-Huberman
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W. G. Sebald • -
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald
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W. G. Sebald • -
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W. G. Sebald
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