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oapen-20.500.12657-899642024-04-18T07:58:00Z Ground Sea Van Gelder, Hilde Photography;Critical Iconology;Photography Theory;Art Research;Contemporary Art History;Visual Culture;Fundamental Rights;Political Philosophy;Visual Anthropology;Cultural Geography;Ethnography thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art TWO-VOLUME SET Viewing the Strait of Dover through the lens of photography theory. Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder’s associative travelogue that takes Allan Sekula’s sequence Deep Six / Passer au bleu (1996/1998) as a touchstone for a dialogue with more recent artworks zooming in on the borderscape near the Channel Tunnel, such as those by Sylvain George and Bruno Serralongue. Combining ethnography, visual materials, political philosophy, cultural geography, and critical analysis, Ground Sea proceeds through an innovative methodological approach. Inspired by the meandering writings of W.G. Sebald, Javier Marías, and Roland Barthes, Van Gelder develops a style both interdisciplinary and personal. Resolutely opting for an aquatic perspective, Ground Sea offers a powerful meditation on the indifference of an increasingly divided European Union with regard to considerable numbers of persons on the move, who find themselves stranded close to Calais. The contested Strait of Dover becomes a microcosm where our present global challenges of migration, climate change, human rights, and neoliberal surveillance technology converge. Read more on the book's dedicated website: www.groundsea.be This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Ebook available in Open Access. "The book is about those who are stranded close to the sea but at the same time about all of us, who will have to accept that learning to sail or float on water will increasingly be our fate if we do not succeed to work together to contain the rise in sea levels.", Hilde Van Gelder 2024-04-16T10:25:19Z 2024-04-16T10:25:19Z 2024 book 9789462702653 9789461663740 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89964 eng Lieven Gevaert Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789461665768.pdf Leuven University Press 10.1116/9789461665768 10.1116/9789461665768 91436d3b-fb9a-45e9-8a57-08708b92dcda 9789462702653 9789461663740 30 737 Leuven open access
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TWO-VOLUME SET
Viewing the Strait of Dover through the lens of photography theory.
Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder’s associative travelogue that takes Allan Sekula’s sequence Deep Six / Passer au bleu (1996/1998) as a touchstone for a dialogue with more recent artworks zooming in on the borderscape near the Channel Tunnel, such as those by Sylvain George and Bruno Serralongue.
Combining ethnography, visual materials, political philosophy, cultural geography, and critical analysis, Ground Sea proceeds through an innovative methodological approach. Inspired by the meandering writings of W.G. Sebald, Javier Marías, and Roland Barthes, Van Gelder develops a style both interdisciplinary and personal.
Resolutely opting for an aquatic perspective, Ground Sea offers a powerful meditation on the indifference of an increasingly divided European Union with regard to considerable numbers of persons on the move, who find themselves stranded close to Calais. The contested Strait of Dover becomes a microcosm where our present global challenges of migration, climate change, human rights, and neoliberal surveillance technology converge.
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