Oficina pratico-teórica com a artista e investigadora Wiebke Leister (Folkwang University of the Arts, Royal College of Art).
É necessário saber comunicar em inglês para participar neste workshop.

Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança 
25 Novembro 2023

Descrição da atividade
Pensando no relato de Vilem Flusser sobre os nossos movimentos expressivos quando fotografamos alguém, vamos reencenar esses gestos fotográficos no palco do Museu do Teatro e da Dança. Descreveremos a forma como diferentes fotógrafos abordam os seus modelos, tentando compreender que tipos de retrato resultam dos seus diferentes actos de performance fotográfica. Em seguida, projectaremos estas imagens de fotógrafos em ação, fotografando um jogo de sombras que surge quando interagimos com os seus gestos fotográficos.

Trazer: Exemplos de fotografias que mostram fotógrafos “em acção”.
Ler:  I. Calvino (1993): “The Adventure of a Photographer’ – in: Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge into Real Estate, Sydney: Vintage.

Referencias 
V. Flusser (2011): ‘The Gesture of Photographing’ – in: Gestures, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, pp. 72–85. 
J. Anderson& W. Leister (2018): ‘Pro-Photographic Gestures’, Journal of Photography & Culture, 11: 2, pp.237-243.

 

Outra Programação 
A visita de Wiebke Leister a Lisboa permite realizar um programa de sensibilização para o trabalho de cruzamento entre Fotografia e Performance a partir da sua obra e da sua experiência criativa. Esta acção resulta da articulação entre 4 instituições – CET-FLUL / IADE-Universidade Europeia / MNTD / STET – e desenvolve-se em 3 dias e locais distintos e com diferentes especificidades. Além do workshop, realizam-se as seguintes acções paralelas: 

24Nov – IADE – Masterclass – Photographic Manifestations of Japanese Noh Theatre, and Beyond +  Photographic Sequencing com alunos da Lic. Em Fotografia e Cultura Visual (IADE-UE) 
26Nov – STET-Livraria – apresentação de livro da autora Wiebke Leister – Echoes & Callings: A Hannya Manifesto – na Feira do Livro de Fotografia + conversa, no Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa – Fotográfico. 

Parceria 
IADE-Universidade Europeia, Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, STET – Livraria 

Biografia 

Wiebke Leister 
I am a German artist and researcher living in London. I studied photography, typography and media theory at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and gained a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. My work challenges the limitations of mimetic representation and individual likeness, often focusing on the human image as a canvas, a medium or an agent. Committed to interdisciplinary approaches and working in collaboration, my work seeks transformative and performative conditions of portraiture in which the image becomes a catalyst for an interplay between viewer and imaginary referent. As an artist I work with photography, projection, performance, publication, drawing and collage; my writing is in English and German and my written practice spans from academic papers to text-based installations for the gallery. I also work with public institutions, organising international events, conferences and exhibitions. Ongoing research groups include the Theatre of Photography research network and the Writing Photographs teaching research project. Before teaching at the Royal College of Art, I was Course Leader for MA Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Building on methods of artistic research and experimental pedagogics, I established the MA Photography internationally with a focus on conceptual lens-based installation practices. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and recipient of a collaborative UAL Teaching Scholars Award. During this time at UAL, I was a core member of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, co-organiser of the Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub and the convener of the UAL Interdisciplinary Practice Research Forum. My research was included in the 2008 RAE and 2014 & 2021 REF submissions, and I continue to supervise PhD students across different UAL colleges. I also taught conceptual photography, integration of theory & practice, artistic research and intermedial strategies at Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Folkwang Universität der Künste and The Photographers’ Gallery in London. During the academic year 2018-19, I was seconded to Bielefeld as DAAD Professor of Photography to develop research-into-teaching methodologies and internationalisation strategies. Since 2021, I have been on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Arts Writing by Students. 

Coordenação:
Wiebke Leister(Folkwang University of the Arts, Royal College of Art)

Organização:
Filipe Figueiredo (CET-FLUL)
Cosimo Chiarelli (CET- FLUL)