1. Ausschnitte Aus Eden/Extracts from Eden : Re-Representing the “Wounded” Landscape of the Lausitz, Eastern Germany.
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Curran, Mark
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LANDSCAPE photography , *MULTIMEDIA (Art) , *ETHNOLOGY , *LANDSCAPES , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
Centrally informed through the application of photography, my multi-media practice has evolved to one conversant in ethnography and the principles of a critically reflexive practice. Ethnography can be viewed as an epistemological position or “a commitment”, as Zsuzsa Gille states, “to study an issue at hand by understanding it from the perspectives of people whose lives are tied up with or affected by it”. The thematic concerns within my research practice have critically addressed the predatory context resulting from the flows and migrations of global capital. To this end, and drawing upon my own practice-led fieldwork in the Lausitz (Lusatia), Brandenburg in the former East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), this article and the illustrations frame a long-term research project constructed in a landscape inscribed with the utopic “wounds of modernity” (Berman) — Industrialisation, Socialism, and now at great cost, Globalisation — and the re-representational strategies employed to evoke the “wounded” landscape of the Lausitz, a landscape of the here and now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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