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Please join us for a talk by our very own LLMVC PhD student Laura Sullivan, who will present her practice-based research, drawing on the University's George Washington Wilson collection.
“Knock, knock!” How practice-based research mines the digital archive — This presentation looks at one particular pattern in the Morocco Series of the George Washington Wilson Collection (GWWC) – men photographed in relation to doorways – and considers it as a visual culture device of late 19th-century Orientalist photography. Beginning with a broad-stroke contextualisation of the device from a post-colonial perspective that focuses on Homoerotics in Orientalism and a broader Art History commentary on liminality, the doorway-as-device is confronted. Two intertwined re-readings engage the subject further: the doorway-as-device as an ecstatic visual experience causes a phenomenological departure from its quotidian, everydayness, and the doorway-as-device mining theoretical features of transformational aesthetics of trauma. Considering the broader implications to Visual Culture disciplines researching early Orientalist photography is where we will conclude, drawing attention to the enormous potential of the GWWC and practice-based methods in (digital) archival research.
This event forms part of the VIEW programme of events, run by the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture.
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