Månedsarkiv: maj 2016

Family photographs from Dutch East Indies: Visual repatriation and nostalgia Foto: Yayoi Collectie Tropenmuseum Museums are increasingly embracing new digital possibilities for collaborating with communities. This presentation examines the digitization project, Foto zoekt familie (photo seeks family) at the Tropenmuseum … Læs resten →

The Colonial Sublime: The Nature in/of History in Daniel Dencik’s The Gold Coast (2015) Foto:HaslundDencik This paper discusses how Daniel Dencik’s fictionalized historical feature film The Gold Coast (2015) engages with the history and historiography of Danish colonialism and participation in … Læs resten →

A New Ethno-Aesthetics in Contemporary Photo-Based Art With few exceptions the visual image of Greenland transmitted through photography has been highly stereotypical: ice and wild nature, peopled by tough sealers and hunters. Recently, however, new narratives have begun emerging among … Læs resten →

A New Ethno-Aesthetics in Contemporary Photo-Based Art Photo: Julie Edel Hardenberg: The Quiet Diversity, 2005. A talk by  Mette Sandbye, Professor of Photography Studies and Head of department at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. With few … Læs resten →

How Images Speak: National Museum artefact DVI6030, and its affects There is an early 20th century photograph in the National Museum collection, which represents a woman of African descent holding a white Danish child. Although she commands the image, and … Læs resten →