How can we look at difficult images with accountability?
Images that are hard to look at are all but unavoidable in the current media environment. While in recent history shock and transgression were common artistic strategies, many artists now respond to the saturation of challenging images with different ethics of care toward the images they produce. At the same time, difficult images persist as a necessary tool to unmask systemic sociopolitical harms. Alighting on issues of bodily sovereignty, marginalization, and everyday violence, challenging artworks prompt urgent cultural conversations: where can the unsettling effects of difficult images lead? What does accountability look like for those who make, disseminate, and witness these images? What remedies emerge by scrutinizing the invisibilized violence and subjugation of marginalized, racialized, and feminized bodies?
Burning Glass, Reading Stone
GUT_BRAIN Video Program (Part 1)
GUT_BRAIN Video Program (Part 2)
Fringe
Grieta/Fissure
La Sombra
Logics of Sense 1: Investigations
Logics of Sense 2: Implications
The Cage is a Stage
I stood before the source
Care and Dying: Albert Banerjee in Conversation with Steven Eastwood
The Interval and the Instant: Inscribing Death and Dying
The Interval and the Instant
In a world of algorithmic tailoring, what are our habits of looking?
To resist, to empower, to heal