The Portal: A Photographic Call

About

The portal as invitation to leave familiar ground behind and venture into uncertainty. The portal as transition, where time, space and perception shift. Beyond that begins a new reality which challenges us to abandon familiar perspectives and to explore the unknown. The portal as both symbol and experience: a moment for taking thought and for new departures, a boundary that connects rather than separates.
Together, we will approach the subject in both theory – by studying texts and works from art and film – and practice, by examining and expanding our own artistic praxis. The aim is to open up new perspectives, and perhaps even to touch upon the unknown or the utopian.
The Summer Academy workshops offer us an inspiring environment for experimental and recreative exploration of both digital and analogue production possibilities. Particular focus will be on co‑operation with artist Sophie Thun. We will watch a film programme she curated, and relate it to our own work. We will invite her to accompany and question our working process.
The workshop challenges students to sharpen their own perception, to question boundaries and break new ground in their own work

Course leader

Pascal Petignat

Target group

Photography

Fee info