The yet unpublished: In search of original forms
– a seminar and relaunch of the Nordic Photobook Dummy Award
Location: Gamle Munch, Tøyen, Oslo
Day&Time: 11:00-15:00, Friday September 1, 2023
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As part of Fotobokfestival Oslo, Fotogalleriet organises a seminar in collaboration with The Norwegian Association of Fine Arts Photographers (FFF) dedicated to the practice of photobooks. In addition, the event serves as a relaunch of the Nordic Photobook Dummy Award and the publication Photography Bound. Reimagining Photobooks and Self-publishing (Silvana Editoriale Publishing, 2023)
On 1 September, as part of Fotobokfestival Oslo, Fotogalleriet co-organizes a seminar dedicated to photobook practices. National and international contributors will address unpublished and yet-to-be- published artists’ books. The seminar is also part of an ongoing process to relaunch the Nordic Photobook Dummy Award in a renewed format.
The seminar takes its departure from an ongoing performance series specially commissioned to artist Marthe Ramm Fortun where the artist, in the spring of 2019, began to address the obliteration of history and the revindication of feminist perspectives onto art institutions. The seminar asks:
What can become visible or invisible by the printed press and the circulation of photographic material? What power do institutions have to obliterate not only artworks but artist’s lives?
Speakers:
Marthe Ramm Fortun, artist and associate professor at KHiO, Oslo
Nora Joung, artist, writer, Oslo
Moritz Kung, independent curator, writer and publisher, Barcelona
Bruno Ceschel, the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, London/Milan
Delphine Bedel, writer, curator and publisher, Amsterdam
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ABOUT FOTOBOKFESTIVAL OSLO
Fotobokfestival Oslo is an annual event which aims to explore the photo book as an artistic medium and phenomenon. The festival was established by Forbundet Frie Fotografer (FFF) in 2009. Since its beginning, it has continued to feature widely recognized art photographers and young, new participants in photography, the photo book genre and publishing activity nationally and internationally. The festival is organized and shown in Oslo and is free and open for all. Also connected to the festival is a satellite program where relevant participants participate to the festival with their own events.
Fotogalleriet
The Fotogalleriet Foundation is the longest-operating institution in the Nordic countries and the only kunsthalle in Norway focusing on art photography. The foundation is concerned with problematizing photographic art and visual culture production and critically contributing to discourses around current image production. At the core of its mandate, the foundation works for a more balanced representation in the art field and society through collaboration with central, socially engaged organizations.
The Norwegian Association of Fine Arts Photographers (FFF)
The Norwegian Association of Fine Arts Photographers (FFF) was initiated and established by Knut Evensen and Robert Meyer in 1974, in a time when lens-based art sought to be acknowledged as an artistic medium. FFF has since become a nationwide members’ association dedicated to focused efforts for its members via art politics and art education, and through communicating the importance of art photography in Norway.
The 2023 festival is supported by Art Council Norway, Oslo municipality, The Norwegian Photographic Fund (Nofofo), Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, Bergesenstiftelsen, Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, and Istituto italiano di Cultura