The ISC’s 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century – to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production.
Themes include The Languages of Sculpture, Public Perception and Investment and The State of Education.
Fazal Sheikh (American, b. 1965) The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan (Abdul Aziz holding a photograph of his brother, Mula Abdul Hakim) 1997
Conference
What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth
This conference brings together renowned photographers, artists, writers, curators, and scholars in a series of panels and conversations:
– Redefining Documentary: The State of Documentary Photography Today – Art versus Document: An (Un)comfortable Union? – Public/Private: Community in the Digital Age – Who Needs Truth Anyway? The Uses and Ethics of Documentary
Participants include Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Nayland Blake, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Y. Levin, Maria Lind, Susan Meiselas, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Brian Wallis, and others.
The International Center of Photography Presents A Two-Day Symposium to Examine The Changing Nature of Documentary Practice.
Friday December 12th 2008 6 – 10pm Saturday December 13th 2008 9 – 5pm
The Times Center 242 West 41st Street New York City
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