‘Ship of Fools’, Allan Sekula, exhibition detail

Social Documents 2 | Allan Sekula: Topographies of Globalisation

Stills, Edinburgh

12 November 2011 - 18 March 2012

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The Social Documents programme continued with Allan Sekula’s rich photographic and filmic mappings of modern life.

A retrospective of Sekula’s moving image works was followed by a presentation of his series of photographs Ship of Fools alongside his award-winning documentary film The Forgotten Space (2010). Together, they examine the sea as a space of trade, work, exploitation, activism and the sublime.

The Ship of Fools events programme included special screenings of The Forgotten Space, a series of lectures by photographers and visual culture specialists exploring art and the effects of globalisation as well as a new reading group where we got to grips with Karl Marx’s Capital.

The Globalisation and Art Lecture Series

3 February 2012 | Richard Williams: A Modern Ruin – the ‘United States’ in Philadelphia 

15 February 2012 | Gail Day: Social Transitivity in Allan Sekula’s The Lottery of the Sea

15 February 2012 | Steve Edwards: Some Brechtian Moments 

23 February 2012 | Anu Pennanen, Gaze Value

29 February 2012 | Owen Logan: Globalising the Spiritual Aristocracy: Reflections on Class, Art, and Gods 

14 March 2012 | Antigoni Memou: Contesting Globalisation: Allan Sekula’s Waiting for Tear Gas

Producer: Cheryl Connell

AV: Evan Thomas

Installation: Lindsey Hamilton

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'Film Retrospective', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Film Retrospective', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Film Retrospective', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
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'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
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'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail
'Ship of Fools', Allan Sekula, exhibition detail