Shadows of Reality: W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials
| Dates: | 27 November 2024 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr. Nick Warr, Prof. Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Dr. Kaye Mitchell |
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The peripatetic themes in W.G. Sebald’s writings have been widely discussed and analysed since the German publication of Vertigo (Schwindel. Gefühle) in 1990. Through The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz his work has presented the themes of migration, mobility and immobility in both subject, language, and form. In 2023, together with Clive Scott, Nick Warr edited Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of Sebald’s Photographic Materials, and applied the theme of mobility to Sebald’s use of photographs in his work. Nick Warr comes to Manchester to discuss how this astonishing archive landed on his desk and the fifteen years of research and curation that followed. He talks about the nomadic in Sebald’s use of photographic material and shows rarely seen footage of Sebald discussing his work.
1500-1550 'Nomadic Things: W.G. Sebald and Photography. Professor Nick Warr
1550-1605 Short Break and Refreshments
1605-1640 'A Room with a View'. (1998) A film of W.G. Sebald in conversation. Introduced by Nick Warr
1650-1750 Questions to Nick and Round Table discussion with Professor Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Dr Kaye Mitchell.
This event forms part of CIDRAL's series of events linked to the theme of Im/mobilities.
Nick Warr is Associate Professor of Art History and Curation at the University of East Anglia. He teaches on the BA Art History, BA Art History with Gallery & Museum Studies and MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies courses. His research interests are primarily around avant-garde and experimental practice, whether that be artists’ film and video, photography or cultural heritage. He is currently researching 'Outsider' Art in relation to the development of modernism, and experimental artist filmmakers in East Anglia. His latest publication is Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials (Boiler House Press and MIT Press), which was a New York Times 'Art Book of The Year' in 2023.
Speakers
Dr. Nick Warr
Organisation: University of East Anglia
Prof. Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Organisation: University of Manchester
Dr. Kaye Mitchell
Organisation: University of Manchester
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A2.16
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Manchester
