Perspektivet Museum and UiT The Arctic University of Norway’s research group WONA (Worlding Northern Art) will arrange an international conference with the theme ‘Photographic Practices as Care-Taking.’
Abstracts are welcome from artists, art-historians, curators, writers and others with an interest in the topic, to be received latest October 10th. More information on the conference and full call for paper is available here. The keynote papers will be held by Jana Johanna Haeckel and Katarina Pirak Sikku.
“We would like to address if and how a variety of photographic practices can be recognized as practices of care-taking, from artistic to curatorial, as well as archival and collective methods and (counter)strategies. Here, care is to be understood in its simple everyday meaning: to feel concern, interest, or affection, to attach importance to something – and as what is necessary for the welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.”
The sessions will be grouped into different aspects of care-taking and relate to WONA’s three research interests: art and identity; art and ecology; art and science (see https://uit.no/research/wona).
Please spread the word about the conference and the call for papers to friends and colleagues with an interest in photography and care – and submit an abstract if this is your own research area.
Illustration:
Katarina Pirak Sikku, «Anná-siessá,» ukjent datering. Foto: Michael Miller, RidduDuottarMuseat