Programme of the conference Formats of (Non)Seeing, organised by Institute of Art History, which will take place in Split, October 27 – 29, in the conference hall at the Cornaro hotel:
Thursday, 27. 10. 2022
9:00 Welcome
Session 1, 9:30 – 10:50
Curatorial Narratives and Life as Photographic Phenomenon
chair: Sandra Križić Roban
Alice Haddad
Landscape Inventory Vs. Collection: The Photography Commission of the Flemish Government Architect on Display
George Themistokleous
Simulated Photography and the De-Habituation of the Self(Image)
Ali Shobeiri
The Room is the World: Reflecting on the Lived Life of ‘Hikikomori’ Through Photography
Leonida Kovač
…ce phénomène photographique, la vie
10:50 – 11:20 discussion
[coffee break 11:20 – 12:00]
Session 2, 12:00 – 13:20
Construction and Transfer of Knowledge
chair: Lana Lovrenčić
Ivana Gržina
‘Both Sides Now’: Images of A Museum’s Life From Up and Down
Višnja Pentić Vukašinović
An Emancipated Spectator – Photography as a “Pedagogical Tool”
Dominik Lengyel and Catherine Toulouse
Creating Reality to be Interpreted Through the Photography of Abstraction
Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans
(Non)visibility of Everyday Resistances in the Vernacular Photography of the 1950s Eastern Europe
13:20 – 14:00 discussion
[14:00 – 15:30 Lunch]
KEYNOTE 1, 15.30 – 16:30
MARGHERITA NAIM, Fotobibliothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
The Photographic Book as a Format of (Non)Seeing. A Bibliography for Research on Photography in the Holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
[16:30 – 17:00 coffee break]
Session 3, 17:00 – 18:20
Constructing and Deconstructing Knowledge Through Photography in the Period Between Two World Wars
chair: Ana Šeparović
Alexandra Matz
Tracing the Threads of a Relationship Through Archival Imagery: Perspectives of Otti Berger and Ludwig Hilberseimer
Ana Rajković Pejić
Skinny and Exhausted: Visualization of Labour Force in Interwar Yugoslavia
Stella Fatović-Ferenčić and Martin Kuhar
The Interwar Project of Photodocumenting Zagreb’s Housing Misery – Various Possibilities of Reading Their Content
Tihana Petrović Leš, Tihana Rubić and Ivan Grkeš
Between Leisure and Research: The Mediterranean in Milovan Gavazzi’s Photographic Opus in the First Half of the 20th Century
18:20 – 19:00 discussion
Friday, 28. 10. 2022
Session 4, 9:30 – 10:50
Thinking About the World in Early Times
chair: Martin Kuhar
Hrvoje Gržina
Croatia in Colour: Autochromes with Croatian Motifs in the Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
Annika Toots
“Liquid Photography” and the Photographic Legacy of the Estonian Photographer Jaan Riet
Meri Kunčić
Photo as a Source for Researching of Long-Periods of History. The Example of Dalmatian Island and City of Rab
Ana Šverko
Female Travel Photography of the Early 20th Century: “Motoring in the Balkans along the highways of Dalmatia, Montenegro, the Herzegovina and Bosnia” (Chicago 1909) by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson
10:50 – 11:20 discussion
[coffee break 11:20 – 12:00]
Session 5, 12:00 – 13:00
Reality of Socialist Time
chair: Leonida Kovač
Ana Šeparović and Sandra Križić Roban
Photography in the Focus of Cultural-Critical Discourse: Critical Reflections on Photography in Croatia Between 1941 and 1980
Ante Orlović
History of the Alumina Factory in Obrovac – Photographic Narrative
Lana Lovrenčić
A Midterm Plan – Petar Dabac and His Initiative of Establishing a National Museum of Photography
13:00 – 13:45 discussion
[14:00 – 15:30 Lunch]
KEYNOTE 2, 15.30 – 16:30
NICLAS ÖSTLIND, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
New Eyes – Interwar Lens Media Cultures Seen Through the Optic of an International Exhibition 1929
16:30 – 17:30 discussion
Saturday, 29. 10. 2022
Visit to Diocletian’a Palace, the Gallery of Fine Arts and other cultural venues in Split.
To register and follow online, contact Ana Ćurić acuric@ipu.hr Registration is free.
Organizing Committee
Tomislav Bosnić, Institute of Art History, Cvito Fisković centre in Split
Ana Ćurić, Institute of Art History
Sandra Križić Roban, Institute of Art History
Lana Lovrenčić, Institute of Art History
Scientific Committee
Leonida Kovač, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
Sandra Križić Roban, Institute of Art History
Lana Lovrenčić, Institute of Art History
Ana Šeparović, The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography
