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| Image Zachary Drucker |
Hosted by The University of Houston | Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts | School of Art
When March
05-08, 2020
Where The Westin Galleria, Houston, TX
Featured Speakers Zackary Drucker, Xaviera Simmons
Where The Westin Galleria, Houston, TX
Featured Speakers Zackary Drucker, Xaviera Simmons
2020 is coming, so… where are our jetpacks? Our reservations at the Moon Motel? And
world peace?
2020
has yet to deliver on these futuristic dreams; instead, it looms full of
conflict, crisis, and deep political division. This moment demands that we see
the world unflinchingly, with eyes wide open, drawing on the clarity of
hindsight and the perspectives that lenses and other photographic modes can
bring to the world. What is photography's role at this turning point in
history? How might it best respond to this moment? As we celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Exposure, SPE's flagship publication, it is time to use the
tools we have at hand, to reevaluate our past and actively establish our
present as we forge our future. In the spirit of the essays and photographs
Exposure has published over the years, 2020 Vision is an occasion to explore
the connection between written and visual frames of understanding. Through
image and text we have the power to soothe and enchant, unravel
misrepresentation, provoke, investigate, inform, expose, advocate, collaborate,
engage, and celebrate our connections as we work toward change.
20/20
Vision invites us, as artists, critics, curators, imagemakers, historians,
theorists, and writers, to use our words and our images to define the state of
contemporary photography. It challenges us to expand our vision of photography
to be inclusive of adjacent modes; to build a new canon that accurately
reflects our community and its diverse range of practitioners; and to see what
is known to us with greater criticality and more probing analysis, and what is
unknown with greater empathy.
As we
approach 2020, knowing the risks of not speaking up or of speaking too loudly,
let us be purposeful in our visual language. Though our discussions and explorations
of contemporary photography and its relationships to and impact on the world,
we can find inspiration to move our medium into the future.
