Ground sea. Photography and the right to be reborn. Volume I. / Hilde Van Gelder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelder, Hilde van, author.

Series:

Lieven Gevaert series ; Volume 30.

Lieven Gevaert Series ; Volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sekula, Allan--Criticism and interpretation.

Sekula, Allan.

Human rights--Europe.

Human rights.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Photography--Political aspects.

Dover, Strait of--Pictorial works.

Dover, Strait of.

Europe--Emigration and immigration.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (738 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

volume I. Preface : water-bound

Embarkation : bone point

Introduction : sea-stricken

part I : blade

1. Running on water

2. Ground sea

3. Ossuary

4. Kairology

5. Reliquiae

Deep six/Passer au bleu (1996/1998) / by Allan Sekula

volume II. part II : shuttle

6. The right to reappear

7. Naming the person without a name

8. Fools & rights : leaves for an illustrated reader

9. This precious jewel

10. Plotting

At anchor : pearl diving.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6270-265-9

OCLC:

1273427735