Exhibition and conference "Seeing/Showing War Today"

A scientific and artistic event organized by the Faculty of Education of the University of Montpellier in collaboration with FRAC, LAC, and the Samira Gambie Gallery, with the support of the Occitanie Region and DRAC Occitanie.

About the theme

In^{the 21st century}, war would be there and here, everywhere and all the time. Images are an essential vehicle for this. This university event is dedicated to issues surrounding the representation and reception of works and images depicting war. It will explore the relationships and tensions that images and people have with war. Questions about the subject, creation, production, dissemination, and education must be asked.

On the one hand, in a symposium, we have therefore chosen to examine contemporary images of war(s), in the broadest sense, in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary dynamic that is at once theoretical, artistic, and educational, in connection with image education and artistic and cultural education. This scientific event explores the relationships and tensions that images and people have with war. Questions about the subject, creation, production, dissemination, and education must be asked.

On the other hand, a collective exhibition of works and images plays an important role in this reflection on representations of war. Indeed, works of art are forms of thought expressed in actions and images. The exhibition is thus designed as a place for reflection and discovery, confrontation and dialogue.

The theme is explored in several ways: university lectures, presentations by artists and journalists, artistic workshops, and exhibitions. It is addressed by photojournalists, artists, philosophers, academics, exhibition curators, and doctoral students.

Presentation of the symposium

GUEST SPEAKERS

Catherine Cattaruzza, artist and photographer
Frédéric Lambert, university professor of information and communication sciences
Julien Martinez, performance artist
François Soulages, philosopher, university professor of aesthetics,
Laurent Van der Stockt, photojournalist
Marion Zilio, exhibition curator, critic

TARGET AUDIENCES

University students.
Educational advisors,^{primary and secondary school}teacher trainers (PEMF, PFA), teacher-researchers, elementary school teachers, middle school and high school teachers, etc.
Réseau Canopé staff, IEN, IA-IPR, DAAC, etc.
Artists, cultural professionals, art students.

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