Visual + Digital Arts Open Lecture: Jan Erik Lundstrom – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-02-06 16:00:00 in Canada
The Visual Arts Open Lectures presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators and academics. Join Dark Arts faculty Jan Erik Lundstrom for this talk.
Jan-Erik Lundström is a curator, critic and historian of contemporary art and photography. He has held positions such as director of the Sami Center for Contemporary Art, chairman of the Centre for Photography in Stockholm, and chief curator of Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm. From 1999 to 2011 he was the director of Bildmuseet. His latest curatorial projects include Show Me Colour: Resist, Stand Up, Advocate, Top of the World, Fall Back Spring Forward, Surviving the Future, The Map: Critical Cartographies, Politics of Place and Society Must Be Defended: the 1st Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art. He was the chief curator of Berlin Photography Festival, 2005 and the artistic director of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale. He is the author and editor of many books, including Thinking Photography – Using Photography, Nordic Landscapes, Tankar om fotografi, Ursula Biemann: Mission Reports, Looking North: Representations of Sami in Visual Arts and Literature, and Irving Penn: Photographs. Lundström has contributed to major publications such as Horizons: Towards a Global Africa, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, The Weight of Photography and The History of European Photography of the 20th Century. Lundström has been a guest professor at, among others, Aalto University, Helsinki, Konstfackskolan and the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Malmö Art Academy, HISK, Antwerpen/Gent, University of los Andes, Bogotá, and Oslo Art Academy, Oslo. Lundström is a prolific lecturer, writer and contributor to international symposia and periodicals.
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