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Intro

The erosion of the documentary with regard to its ability to describe reality has become apparent in the past twenty years and has even reached mass-media reporting. The world has become photographic, but “the more unhindered its dissemination, the more diverse its forms, the more powerful its effect, the stronger, too, the suspicion of deception that has always been cast on the image and images” (Jean-Luc Nancy). So what can the reality-based representational media such as photography and film tell us about the world today? How does an increasingly visualised culture assure itself of its reality, its ground, when image and reality are constantly constructing and commenting on each other more than ever before? The aim of this Camera Austria project developed in co-operation with the photo artist Tobias Zielony (born in Wuppertal in 1973, lives in Berlin) is to explore these interdependencies and to focus on and assess the current role of various documentary (artistic) strategies.

Tobias Zielony’s work always combines social reality with protagonists, with fields of action of social individuals. But what picture does his documentary practice draw of these social individuals? Tobias Zielony has gained renown in recent years with series on young people from Europe and the USA; his pictures exemplarily pose this question as to the subject production of documentary photographic images, as to what photography still does with the people it depicts. Together with Tobias Zielony, we are developing an exhibition that, with the aid of additional contributions, including film and literature, explores this terrain of the documentary as a space of action from the perspective of a performativity of images.

In parallel to the exhibition we have collaborated with Tobias Zielony on a thematic issue of the magazine Camera Austria International 114/2011 in which we explore the issue of the documentary as political practice.

Installation Views

Opening

Materials

• Ausstellungsfolder / Exhibition folder

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