Open call for Participants: Depicting Juba Photo-Workshop Art, Politics and Society

Event Date: 20th to 29th June.

Venue: University of Juba. CCF Juba.

Application: www.depictingjuba.wordpress.com

Info: 0907939467

Deadline: 17th June, 2011
 
At present time many aesthetic operations are being developed in South Sudan and are affecting in one way or another in the process of building the new country,its imagination, memory and history. The images constitute a significant part of the collective memory and the construction of the national identity.
 
Depicting Juba is as an analytic device that, -from cultural parameters- will record the impact of the current socio-political situation on the inhabitants of the city of Juba.The workshop will establish a study and reflection platform of cultural issues such
as the role of the artist and his/her responsibilities in providing information, subjectivities and responses to the current social and political context of the new country of South Sudan.
 
Art, politics and society; perception and aesthetic experience; event and subjectivity are the issues to be addressed in order to raise a further reflection on the historical moment that the new country is crossing.
 
During the workshop, an archive will be created by the collection of subjectivities.This archive will generate discussion forums on iconographic construction of the new territory. The photographic image will be the material to study. Photography, as a criticism structure, will explore the representation forms of the city and the individual.
 
Depicting Juba involves the construction of a critical space where diverse subjectivities are generated (registration and generation of collective consciousness) through different dynamics to face the photography. Photography understood as a means of cognitive
and not an end in itself will be the practice that will generate debate. Participants will be responsible for deciding the objective and purpose of their practice.
 
The workshop, will be focused on stimulating the responsibility of managing recording devices and generating debate about the positions as individuals, in relation to the territory.