Spring Seminar 2021 · Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts

Spring Seminar 2021 · Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts
5-7 MAY 2021
School of Arts at Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Porto, Portugal
Programa: http://bit.ly/SpringSeminar2021


Keynote Speakers and Artist Talks
Esther Peeren
João Pedro Rodrigues
José Bértolo
Loretta Fahrenholz
Margarida Medeiros
Noé Sendas
Ulrich Baer

Todas as sessões do Spring Seminar serão transmitidas online. 

Some artworks, from cinema to visual arts and photography, have absorbed phenomena like ghosts, zombies, illness, death, spectra, apparitions, and other kind of “in-between” states of being. This kind of liminality is a way of bringing forward in our historical present its profound ambiguity. 
 
Images are ontologically problematic in their approach to reality. They are always a representation of a time and a space, and their manipulation puts into question their indexicality.
 
This liminality of ghosts, spectra and apparitions is also a way of analyzing the complexity of our historical present, in both its linearity and a cross-over of past, present and future. Therefore, these “in-between” states discuss issues of the traumatic past, as are empowerments to change the future. That is, the traumatic past haunts the historical present demanding new ways of knowing the world and history that will transform power structures.
 
This seminar aims to map and discuss contemporary manifestations in art & cinema of these phenomena.


Organizing Committee
Daniel Ribas
Nuno Crespo