A lecture from the conference, “Sanhedrin.” The conference wishes to question the connection between the museum and the nation state, through the examination of divergent museum models, at a time when the status of the nation state is being undermined by influences of neo-liberal economics.
In Azoulay’s presentation, she will draw the contours of the civil spectator and will ask what makes possible a civil point of view upon images. Her presupposition will be that such a point of view refuses to see photographed persons as mere objects of photographs, and will argue that this is not enough. In the context of the occupation - which will be her case study - a civil spectator should transcend not only the rules of the professional space but also those of the national space. Transcending these rules she will find herself in the space of photography where those who have been forced into statelessness and deprived of citizenship, become citizens – citizens of the citizenry of photography. Through photography, the photographed persons demand their right to political speech, gaze and action and invite the spectators to reinstate with them the political space of which they have been dispossessed.
Displacement Documentary Israeli Palestinian relations Memory Occupation Perception Politics Power Art Nationalism
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
