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| Article number | 16571 |
| Price | 19,00 € |
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Peter Piller
Materials (I)
Sense of Possibility
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition
[Control] No Control
08.06.2018 - 23.09.2018
Triennial of Photography Hamburg
Control has many facets: it encompasses surveillance by others or by oneself. But it also implies the possibility of losing control or evading control. Photography plays a central role in most forms of control: photographs are part of the surveillance apparatus and thus an instrument for exercising power and domination. But who has the power to control others? The state, money or do we also control each other? Today, social platforms, facial scanners and algorithms decide whether we are accepted or excluded from society. By observing others without their knowledge, we also find ourselves in a constant border area between being witnesses and accomplices, being actors and voyeurs at the same time.
Artists thematise the problematic relationship between camera and control by appropriating their technical means and making the invisible visible. With the help of highly specialised technical cameras, they reveal strategies of mass surveillance and control mechanisms that normally operate in secret and are subject to deliberate secrecy. The positions in the exhibition present an aesthetic of surveillance that is both enticing and frightening in equal measure. They show the extent to which seeing itself is dependent on technologies, ideologies and political strategies.
What happens when it is no longer people but computers who ‘read’ images and when reality is only perceived through photographs? Which images today describe the diverse modes of operation of power through control? What breaking points and possibilities for change can they make visible? As part of the 7th Phototriennale Breaking Point, the exhibition seeks answers to these current questions with 15 different artistic positions in photography and the medium of film.
Materials (I)
Sense of Possibility
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition
[Control] No Control
08.06.2018 - 23.09.2018
Triennial of Photography Hamburg
Control has many facets: it encompasses surveillance by others or by oneself. But it also implies the possibility of losing control or evading control. Photography plays a central role in most forms of control: photographs are part of the surveillance apparatus and thus an instrument for exercising power and domination. But who has the power to control others? The state, money or do we also control each other? Today, social platforms, facial scanners and algorithms decide whether we are accepted or excluded from society. By observing others without their knowledge, we also find ourselves in a constant border area between being witnesses and accomplices, being actors and voyeurs at the same time.
Artists thematise the problematic relationship between camera and control by appropriating their technical means and making the invisible visible. With the help of highly specialised technical cameras, they reveal strategies of mass surveillance and control mechanisms that normally operate in secret and are subject to deliberate secrecy. The positions in the exhibition present an aesthetic of surveillance that is both enticing and frightening in equal measure. They show the extent to which seeing itself is dependent on technologies, ideologies and political strategies.
What happens when it is no longer people but computers who ‘read’ images and when reality is only perceived through photographs? Which images today describe the diverse modes of operation of power through control? What breaking points and possibilities for change can they make visible? As part of the 7th Phototriennale Breaking Point, the exhibition seeks answers to these current questions with 15 different artistic positions in photography and the medium of film.