Vortrag von Magdalena Nieslony, Innsbruck: Gegen den Kamerablick. Phänomenologische Positionen amerikanischer Kunst um 1970

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Lecture by Magdalena Nieslony, Innsbruck: Gegen den Kamerablick. Phenomenological positions in American art around 1970

In American art of the 1960s and 1970s, the physical presence of works gained in importance: artists such as Nancy Holt or Richard Serra conceived spatial installations and land art projects that were to be experienced with the whole body and made this experience the actual purpose. The artists themselves and art critics interpreted these works with the help of phenomenology, which ascribes a prominent epistemic value to bodily perception. In the lecture, the phenomenological positions of art around 1970 are not understood as universally comprehensible offers of experience, but as historically specific artistic confrontations with photographic images and with the media theory that was omnipresent at the time. The preference for physical presence can thus be read as a critique of the deceptive camera view.

The lecture is part of the lecture series The Eye of the Camera: Art, Politics and Perception in American Photography. The series is organized by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie and the Amerika-Institut der LMU

PARTICIPATION: Participation is free of charge. The event will take place on site at the ZI (Room 242, II. OG) and will be broadcast in parallel via Zoom. Information on the lecture and Zoom link: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026/vortrag-magdalena-nieslony