New Tactics – moving in a soft field
Various Artists
Galleri Image
English, Danish
Edited by Kirstine Autzen.
Texts by Kirstine Autzen, Beate Cegielska and Geoffrey Batchen.
Contributed to by Kristoffer Orum, Sandra Vaka Olsen, Nanna Lysholt Hansen and Valérie Collart.
Softcover
64 pages
250 × 180 mm
2019
ISBN 9788797010303
Today, photos affect our identity, our communication and play, and pictures with photographic elements even often replace the written word on the Internet, in text messages and on social apps. This development has been so radical that researchers often refer to this age as “post-photographic”. In the book, four artists talk about how they see their own role in the context of a broader visual culture. Artists Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Sandra Vaka Olsen, Valérie Collart and Kristoffer Ørum give examples from their own practices and recount their observations and inspiration.
The book is written by MA in Visual Culture Kirstine Autzen on the basis of her curation of the exhibition *New Tactics – moving in a soft field*, which was shown by Galleri Image in 2018 as a part of the Fotobiennalen 2018. On the background for the book, Autzen says:
“These days, photography and the body are both part of highly complex exchanges that can be difficult to navigate. Artists are uniquely equipped to reflect on this development: Independent of commercial interests, highly attuned to visual trends. They are also knowledgeable about the production of pictures, they know the technology and are willing to challenge it. The artists dare talk about that, which is commonly taken for granted and turn it upside down. This makes it interesting to give space to allow the artists’ own reflections to supplement the exhibition experience.”
The digital image and the term post-photography have been with us for several decades. However, the subject matter is still active and alive to us, new in a way, and we are still looking for ways to grasp the post-photographic image. Professor in Photography Geoffrey Batchen was one of the first to use the term post-photography in the 1990’s and in the book, he reflects on the history of the term and how we can use it.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/new-tactics-moving-in-a-soft-field)
About the Author
Kirstine Autzen (b. 1980, Denmark) is a visual artist and MA in Visual Culture working primarily with photographic images as hybrid and spatial phenomena and how they connect to questions of change, identity and perception.
kirstineautzen.dk
(source: https://kirstineautzen.dk/Info)
About the Publisher
Galleri Image is a nonprofit exhibition space for photo-based art. It was founded in 1977 by a group of artists seeking to have the medium of photography recognised as an art form on an equal footing with painting and sculpture.
galleriimage.dk
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/galleri-image)
