21. - 22.10.2005
Fading Documents - The Document between Fact and Fiction

In co-operation with the Humboldt University and the Federal Agency
for Civic Education.

Location:
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Kinosaal/Cinema
Niederkirchnerstr. 7
10963 Berlin
+ 49 30 254 86-0
www.photography-festival-berlin.de

The exhibition After the Fact argues that we are experiencing a loss of reality, whose construction and foundations in the media, as well as the responses of artists, will be queried and commented upon critically in this symposium. The lectures will address the indispensability and power of documentary images and thus the current limits of the documentary for art and culture.

Fri 21.10. 6 pm
Artist talk
Moderation: Prof. Hubertus von Amelunxen, Lübeck

Sat 22.10. 10 am
Lectures and Discussion
Speakers
Stefanie Grebe, freelance curator, Cologne
Reinhard Matz, photographer, Cologne
Torsten Neuendorff, photo editor, Berlin
Hito Steyerl, critic, Berlin
Prof. Otto Karl Werckmeister, art historian, Berlin
Prof. Gabriele Werner, art historian, Vienna

Organizers
Maren Polte, Humboldt University, Berlin and Dr. Matthias Harder, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin.