The theme for this years festival is Field of Vision. This is the information on the website about the upcoming theme.
The thematic focus of CONTACT 2013 positions photography as an extension of vision through a series of Primary Exhibitions and Public Installations, as well as related educational programming. Within this framework, vision can be understood as both sight—the act of perceiving with the eye and the entire view it has the ability to encompass—and as the power of creative imagination—the ability to conceive an exceptional idea, image, object or circumstance. These two distinct yet related interpretations of vision distinguish the approach to the festival’s thematic programming.
CONTACT’s 2013 Primary Exhibitions will comprise a number of projects that are the result of expansive long-term investigations, including Genesis by Sebastiao Salgado. These exhibitions, whose images span the globe and the entire history of photography, will reveal moments of great perception and very direct lines of sight.
CONTACT’s 2013 series of Public Installations will focus on each site as the influence and subject that informs its corresponding work. Artists will create site-specific projects and their images will be contextualized by the surroundings. The resulting dialogue between the installation and the context will activate the site spatially and experientially while engaging spectators to elicit a response. These works will challenge the way we perceive and interact with our physical environment, and draw attention to the significance of artistic vision within the everyday.
This year's CONTACT Festival will highlight how photography extends sight to extract meaning from the world around us, from traditional documentary practices that maintain a photographic “truth”, to experimental approaches to image making that challenge the way we see—the camera’s field of view extends the eye’s field of vision.
CONTACT’s 2013 Primary Exhibitions will comprise a number of projects that are the result of expansive long-term investigations, including Genesis by Sebastiao Salgado. These exhibitions, whose images span the globe and the entire history of photography, will reveal moments of great perception and very direct lines of sight.
CONTACT’s 2013 series of Public Installations will focus on each site as the influence and subject that informs its corresponding work. Artists will create site-specific projects and their images will be contextualized by the surroundings. The resulting dialogue between the installation and the context will activate the site spatially and experientially while engaging spectators to elicit a response. These works will challenge the way we perceive and interact with our physical environment, and draw attention to the significance of artistic vision within the everyday.
This year's CONTACT Festival will highlight how photography extends sight to extract meaning from the world around us, from traditional documentary practices that maintain a photographic “truth”, to experimental approaches to image making that challenge the way we see—the camera’s field of view extends the eye’s field of vision.
