Zainabu Jallo & Berit Seidel: Relationalities and the Ethics of Viewing
Universität Zürich, ISEK – Populäre Kulturen (20.Nov. 2024)
In their talk, they will provide insights into their research project Out of Focus, in which they investigate the previously unpublished photographs taken in Haiti in the 1970s by Leonore Mau. Her pictures not only provide new insights and “potential histories” (Azoulay), they also pose a variety of ethical challenges. In dialog with people and institutions from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, the process-oriented project searches for forms of dealing with Mau’s photographs that include not only artistic and art-historical research but also the structural and institutional level.