Trigger
Subtitle: uncertainty
By: coordinator: Tom Viaene ; guest editors: Michiel De Cleene, Max Pinckers ; editors: Tamara Berghmans [and five others]
Contributors: Museum voor Fotografie (Antwerp, Belgium)
Publisher: FOMU, Fotomuseum; Fw:Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Antwerpen; [Amsterdam]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9789490119928
Subjects: Photography; Philosophy; Political aspects; Documentary photography; Artistic Photography; Photographie; Philosophie; Aspect politique; Photographie documentaire; Photographie artistique
Other titles: Trigger.; Uncertainty
Description: What if we allow speculation, messiness and befoggedness to set the conditions for documentary gestures and practices? Contemporary documentary practice has a crucial role to play within art, mainstream media and activism. It constitutes less a genre, and more "a critical method" in its own right. How can we rethink the documentary attitude conceptually, formally and methodologically? Uncertainty has become documentary's given. What if this unfinished business of the documentary, creates even more possibilities for speculation and imagination? How can we make decentralized, deformatted and polycentric documentaries, even if we assume that we will never fully succeed? Trigger #2 on the issue of UNCERTAINTY is made in collaboration with The School of Speculative Documentary (associated with KASK Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent in Belgium) and FOMU (Photography Museum, Antwerp). With contributions by, amongst others, Liz Orton, Petra Van Brabandt, T.J. Demos, Duncan Forbes, Max Pinckers, Georges Senga, Hoda Afshar, Fred Ritchin and Wilco Versteeg.
Notes: Statement of responsibility from colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.