Dear all, This is a Call for Contributions for an EXHIBITION and a BOOK that some of you might find relevant. The EXHIBITION is so far virtual (hosted on our Submissions page), but we are currently working on finding a place for it in a gallery. A selection of the projects will also be published in BOOK form. [1] The title of this project is FAMILY LINE-UPS. Trans-generational Encounters in Family Photography. It is part of a wider research project currently examining the role of family photography in the process of the inter-generational transmission of memory, with a focus on the manner in which exile acted on the structure of the family and the coherence of its genealogy. Your contributions to this project should address one or several of the questions below: ◾How do we relate ourselves to a family history that we have inherited through family photographs and storytelling, but which we were for the most part unable to witness? ◾ How does family photography work to relate us to an unlived family history in the case of various generations of immigrant families having lived through multiple layers of geographic dislocation and relocation to another cultural space (particularly the situation of transatlantic movement from (Eastern) Europe to the United States, as problematized, for example, by Nancy K. Miller)? ◾ What role does ”genealogy” (usually read as ”blood ties” but also as ”resemblance”) play in the way we project ourselves visually and verbally? ◾ In what way does photography, especially family photography, enable a dialogue with the dead or absent (cf. Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida)? ◾ How do we negotiate the scarce narrative force of photography against the social imperative that we possess a coherent story about our past, our ancestors etc.? ◾ How do we reconcile the fact that the conventions of family photography predicate that the family is a coherent, happy unit, but sometimes family narratives contradict this narrative? Your projects should be sent to familylineups@gmail. All submissions will automatically be considered for inclusion in the book project as well. Not all proposals included in the exhibition will also be included in the book project (because of technical considerations such as image quality, printing costs etc.). Your submission should consist of the following: 1. three scanned photographs from your own family album (please make sure you set your scanner to 600dpi, so we can be sure we can see them properly), as follows: ◾one photograph of yourself ◾(at least) one more of a family member who is absent or otherwise visually unavailable to yourself, but to whom you are connected through ”family resemblance” ◾one of another family member or of a family member who is (also) absent or otherwise visually unavailable to yourself. (please see sample below) 2. A scanned HANDWRITTEN (but legible) NOTE in English (no more than 400 words) on how you relate yourself to the absent family member, and what role the other person in the line-up plays in this dialogue you are having with the absent person Nota Bene: The juxtaposition of the photographs and the text you are submitting should address the QUESTIONS WE ASK about memory, family history, and photography. In other words, we have to reject random juxtapositions of family photographs. Heres where you can find more info about our project as well as the submissions we have received so far: familylineups/category/submissions/
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:24:02 +0000
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