Photographie couleur format carré de sept petits livres empilés en éventail.

Launch | Sites of Photographic Knowledge

Artexte Editions x FAEP

September 19, 2024 – 5:30 pm @ Artexte reading room

Since 2021, Artexte Editions has collaborated with the research group Formes actuelles de l’expérience photographique : épistémologies, pratiques, histoires (FAEP) on a series of books entitled Sites of Photographic Knowledge. FAEP brings together established and emerging researchers with a mandate to enrich photographic discourse, whether artistic, scientific, social or pedagogical, while redefining photographic studies – and its knowledge – as a constellation of experiences.

To mark the end of this exciting collaboration, join us for the official launch of this series of seven books covering a wide range of themes intrinsic to photographic practice and knowledge: The Laboratory; The Territory; The Book; The Archive; The Studio; The Narrative; and The Network. 

 

Schedule of the event: 

5:30 pm: doors open

8:00 pm: end of event

 

About:

Formes actuelles de l’expérience photographique: épistémologies, pratiques, histoires was an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, interuniversity, and inter-institutional research team whose individual programs converged on the problematics of photographic knowledge. Interdisciplinary because FAEP was intent on the relational structure of photographic meaning and how it impacts society. Intergenerational because exchanges between established and emergent scholars pinpoint key areas of investigation in a field accelerated by new technologies. Interuniversity because photographic studies in Quebec institutions have developed distinct and complementary strengths whose combination has the potential to enrich photographic discourse in all its artistic, scientific, social, and pedagogical settings. Interinstitutional as FAEP’s research in the emergent phase has demonstrated clearly that different institutions – libraries, archives, art galleries, laboratories, information bureaus, artists’ studios, and universities – make different demands on the image, which responds with different declarations. As a team of established and emerging researchers, as well as key collaborators, FAEP was not just studying the sources of photographic knowledge, but also redefining the field of photographic studies in terms of constellated experience.