After the End of Photojournalism
Open Museum 2011

The title of this series of lectures is a provocation as in fact it not so much announces the demise of picture story but indicates that its established conventions no longer fit the present-day condition of representation.

Today more and more often it is not representation that bears a nearly exact resemblance to reality, but it is reality that assumes the form of some kind of deja-vu. While the present and its representations are increasingly closer to one another within time, they are also increasingly autonomous. On the other hand we acquire more knowledge about the world via images. It is therefore vital to scrutinize representation strategies which, moving beyond the simple homothety of an image and its representation, are capable of making complex statements about the world. The lectures focus on those artists who distance themselves from the whirlpool of everyday concerns and, often in a subversive way, try to apply a distanced perspective, unmasking the myth of universal and immediate access to the world.