Overview | Registration | Schedule
Overview
Photography and Memory is a collaboration between the City Art Centre Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative Industries, and The Glasgow School of Art (GSA).
"Photography is the medium opening a window to a concentrated, captured memory. Such memory is evoked by an artist in an aesthetic condensation of the situation experienced." (Walter Benjamin)
The Symposium takes as its starting point the following three exhibitions concurrently running at the City Art Centre:
Glean: early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland, curated by Jenny Brownrigg, GSA.
This exhibition surveys the work of fourteen pioneering women photographers and filmmakers, documenting different aspects of rural and urban Scotland.
Edinburgh: A Lost World is an exhibition of work by Ron O'Donnell, Lecturer in Photography at Edinburgh Napier. In the 1970s and 80s O'Donnell photographed interiors of shops and other public spaces across the city. The exhibition tracks social change thirty years later by returning to these forgotten interiors.
Paul Duke is an alumni of Edinburgh Napier's Photography programme, with his exhibition, No Ruined Stone he returns to Muirhouse to where he grew up from the mid-1960s to early 1980s. His images document urban regeneration and social flux.
Edinburgh Napier Merchiston Campus, Room B55
10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT
Registration
Single Day Pass £30/ Concession £20
Two Day Pass £55/ Concession £35
Tickets include catering
To register email researchSACI@napier.ac.uk
Schedule
Day 1 - 2nd February 2023
9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Opening
Diane MacLean - Dean
Kerstin Stutterheim - Head of Research, School of Arts and Creative Industries
Garrabost Jayalakshmi - Director Centre of Creative Practice
9:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Post-Imperialism and Post-Revolutionary Photography
Ellen Yiwei Wang
Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine: Recycling Memories of Post-Revolutionary China through vernacular photographs
University of Oxford, Dept. History of Art
Alexander Supartono
Reframing Colonial (Hi)stories: The Family Photo Albums of Sugar Industrialists in Java at the turn of the 20th Century
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
Simon Popple
Restaging Afghanistan: Photography, Memory and Imperialism
The University of Leeds, School of Media and Communication
Chair — Emile Shemilt
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m.
Keynote 1: Jenny Brownrigg Glean: Early 20th Century Women
Filmmakers and Photographers in Scotland
Glasgow School of Arts
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Hauntology, Landscape and Memory
Michael Schoefield
Bunker Hauntology: Photographing Coastal Erosion, War Ruins and the Loss of Cultural Heritage
The University of Leeds
Valentin Via
Landscape Imaginary and Collective Geo-Cartographies. The Still images of Daniel & Clara
Rovira i Virgili University Barcelona, Spain
Sophie Gerrard
Drawn to the Land: Women Custodians of Scottish Landscape
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
Alexander Boyd
The Empty Frame: Photography, Memory and the Highland Clearances
Northumbria University
Chair — Lei Cox
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and
Creative Industries
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m.
Panel 3: The Personal and as Memory and history
Claire Bottomley
(Re)enacting Memories: Possibilities for Radical Re-enactment within Photography
Helsinki, Finland. Artist and educator
Esra Enes
Three steps: How Photography Shifted
Izmiir University of Economics, Turkey
Rutherford
The Self as Auteur: An interpretative Phenomenological Investigation of Self
Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media and Communication
Chair - Laura Guy
The Glasgow School of Art
4.30pm End of Day 1
Day 2 - 3 February 2023
9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Alistair Scott, School of Arts and Creative Industries
9:30 a.m.
Panel 4: Hidden Histories and the Photo Album
Tugba Tas
Migration, Photography and Memory: A Case Study from the Diaspora from Turkey in London
Ankara University, Turkey
Valentina Bonizzi
Diaries: Lindart and the Albanian Association of Women Artists 1993-2022
Tirana, Albania, artist and researcher
Caroline Molloy
Hidden Histories: A Study of Transcultural Identity Mediated through Family Photography
University of the Creative Arts Farnham
Chair — Alexander Supartono
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
11.00 a.m. - Break
11.15 a.m.
Panel 5: Uncomfortable Histories: A Complex Picture
Andrew Eskind
Making Uncomfortable History Visible: Siegfried Lauterwasser, A Case Study
New York, USA - independent researcher
Emile Shemilt
Of Stewards and Sentinels: (Re)viewing the environmental stewardship of South Georgia during the Industrial Whaling Era
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
Sarah M Lepson
Destigmatising Posthumous Photographs of Children in the 19th Century and Today
Community College Philadelphia, USA, Prof. In Art History
Casey Hayward
Transience and Intransigence: Fading Memories of Social Affliction documentary filmmaker, artist,
Associate Professor, Bentley University
Chair — Sarah Smith
The Glasgow School of Art
13:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Keynote 2: Ron O'Donnell - Old Edinburgh: New Ideas
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
2:45 p.m.
Panel 6: Photography Through Material Memories
Martha Cattell
Ensure A Perfect Representation of Every Plant
independent curator, artist, researcher — UK
Norman McBeath
Lacrimae Rerum: Box Rooms and Dark Rooms
Independent Photographer and Printmaker
Kerstin Stutterheim
The Goldberg-Condition - More to be Seen than One can See
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries
Chair — Christina McBride
The Glasgow School of Art
3:30 p.m.
Closing Words
Kerstin Stutterheim, Garrabost Jayalakshmi and Alistair Scott