Voir la source de Exercises / Critical practice of images

Teacher: [[Diego Thielemans]]

Reproduced images, both printed and digital, still and moving, are the subject of this
course. As omnipresent media of mediation in our lives, images are configured both in
their construction and in their circulation by the relations between the social instances
of the world. How does this actually happen? How do these discourses affect the way
we look at things? And how can we in turn influence them? In the course of the
sessions, the collection of images, the meticulous investigation into them and their
organisation within categories will in fact merge them into an archive of the gaze, which
bears witness to the historicity of the social relations that affect them and the way in
which we view them from our respective places of enunciation.

The study of these facts will be based on the use of practical and critical tools for
dealing with archives, on visits to different places where images are conserved and
disseminated, on group readings of major texts on these different issues, and on the
development of strategies for disseminating our findings. In this sequence, particular
attention is paid to the issues of representation raised by minorities. These issues, and
the methodologies that stem from them, are likely to call into question the continuity
and homogeneity of dominant representations, in order to make room for our multiple
expressions.

The aim of the course is to develop a singular, joyful and informed relationship with
images and research methods, capable of supporting students' artistic practices in the
long term.