The annual event is organized by the photographers Vojtěch Aubrecht and Štěpán Grygar and by the curator Jan Van Woensel. On its 10th anniversary, it received a new title: Boundaries.
“Boundaries” resonates best with the original intention of the project: to make visible and reflect on the formal and conceptual identities of photography via the establishment of a dynamically growing collective of artists, photographers and students. Since its foundation in 2012, the project has been supporting personal approaches and maintaining an inclusive, knowledge-sharing community.
Boundaries: Time
Yearly changing the theme, time was the subject of Boundaries’ 10th edition. In its non-tangible existence and as an inescapable, all-binding condition, time inspired artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, physicists, therapists, self-help gurus and tour operators. When, some time ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated that “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man,” he made clear that nature, people and experiences undergo a consistent process of change even if the change is slow. Such observation indicates that everything flows and that time is irreversible; ambiences picked up by Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac in his improv jazz-like streams of consciousness and, at a different pace, in Andy Warhol’s eight hours and five minutes silent art film Empire, and Anselm Kiefer’s monumental work-in-progress La Ribaute, featured in Sophie Fiennes’s documentary Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow. While time is often both an intrinsic leitmotif and the context of durational artworks, how does photography, fundamentally a time-based medium, relate to this subject?
Programme
The International Photography Symposium 2021 included also two exhibitions, held in Pilsen and Prague, and a three-day symposium with lectures by speakers from the Czech Republic, USA, Israel, Austria and Slovakia, and with further guests joining the event online.
Exhibitions
Ladislav Sutnar Gallery
Riegrova 11, Plzeň
Dates: 16. 11. - 23. 12. 2021
Nová Síň Gallery
Voršilská 139/3, Prague
Dates: 18. 11. - 3. 12. 2021
Symposium
Venue:
Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art
University of West Bohemia
Univerzitní 28, Pilsen
Speakers:
Ewa Bobrowska (PL), Tina Frank (AT), Chris Fraser (USA), Roei Greenberg (IL), Jana Hojstričová (SK), Yikuan Hu (CN), Libuše Jarcovjáková (CZ), Lee Ranaldo (USA), Mark Yashaev (IL)
Lectures
Venue:
Multilab - multimedia studio, Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art
24 November
Chris Fraser - Artist Talk
Ewa Bobrowska (online) - Time Imprisoned
Tina Frank - To and Fro - How to Zigzag
Lee Ranaldo (online) - Greetings from New York - In Virus Times
Recordings of the lectures are available on YouTube youtube.
25 November
Jana Hojstričová - Exposition
Roei Greenberg - English Encounters
Mark Yashaev - The Principle of Full Disclosure
Recordings of the lectures are available on YouTube youtube.
26 November
Yikuan Hu (online) - Limbo as Boundaries
Libuše Jarcovjáková (online) - S kůží na trh / Making No Bones About It
Recordings of the lectures are available on youtube.
