Selected Research Outputs - Daniel Boetker-Smith
Exhibitions
Autoscopy
Transactions
Unravelling
Untitled New Work - Zab Gallery
Catalogues
Books, Chapters in Books
Book Chapter title: Looking in Documentary Photography: Mimesis in Chris Killip’s In Flagrante
Book title: Mirror up to Nature: Art & Imitation
Publishers: Prof. Douglas Friedlander & Prof. David Pushkin, Hofstra University, NY, USA
TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2008.
Statement:
This chapter in a collection of essays edited by two American academics from Hofstra University addresses my central research issue of the gesture and its significance to photography. This chapter focuses on Chris Killip. The theme of Killip’s use of gesture as both a visual and theoretical trope that motivates my work is explored in this chapter. I ask how ‘looking’ as a visual trope within Killip images acts as a break or a fracture in the photo-narrative – the photo is disrupted by a looking subject. This obviously continues the theme that is key in the Menzies talk, the ‘Unravelling’ project and in the notion of ‘Autoscopy’ – the image and the gesture drawing out questions about the ability of photography to reveal and conceal.
This collection was advertised as an open call for papers on the theme of ‘Art and Imitation’ by Hofstra University Press, USA, and received a large number of submissions internationally. Only two submissions focusing on photography were accepted.
Conferences
Guest Lecture Bill Henson: In Flagrante Delicto Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, March 14th 2007
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/menzies/events/seminars.html
The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (located within King’s College London) is jointly organised with the ICS – Institute for Commonwealth Studies.
This paper was presented following a personal invitation to speak from Prof. Carl Bridge and Dr. Ian Henderson.
The topic of my paper flows from and extends my chapter publication in ‘Art & Imitation’ (forthcoming 2008) and focuses on the Australian artist Bill Henson and his motifs of ripping, tearing and fracturing the photographic surface. Henson’s work is an influence on my practical photographic research (‘Unravelling’ Exhiibition). Henson’s use of ‘darkness’, and its sense of concealment and mystery connects to my research interest in the use of the ‘flash’ as a device which hides and obscures whilst, through allusion, refers to other narratives.
This invited guest lecture took place at the Menzies Centre, London on the 14th March 2007. The calendar of talks organised by the Centre selects experts, authors and academics from a wide range of discipline to talk about their work/research. The Centre also hosts residencies and scholarships for Australian academics based in the UK or on research trips to the UK.
The Menzies Centre Australian Studies is a cultural base in London, providing a highly regarded forum for the discussion of Australian issues. The Centre's public lectures, conferences, seminars, briefings and literary readings attract a diverse audience.
Guest Lecture Metaphors for Teaching Annual Art & Design Conference 2007, Cheshire County Council, Forest Hills Hotel, Chester, 24th February 2007
Conference Paper Baudelaire’s Ragpicker and Christopher Wool’s New York City. Baudelaire Symposium: ‘Portraits of Paris in Les Fleurs du Mal’, Grosvenor Museum, Chester. October 14th 2006.
http://www.chester.ac.uk/news/2006/sept/8.html
Conference Paper Averted Looks:New York Colleges English Association Fall Conference, 2003. Conference title ‘The “I” of the Beholder: Narrative Voice and Imagined Realities’, St John Fisher College, Rochester, New York: 11th October 2003
Conference Paper Derrida and the Photographic Other: Graduate Research Centre for the Humanities Conference, 2003. Conference title ‘Encounters with Derrida’, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK: 22nd September 2003
Conference Paper The Image Beyond Photography: Department of Literary, Visual & Performance Studies, Journal & Conference in Literary Studies, 2003. Conference title ‘Seismic Readings’, Monash University, Victoria: 18th July 2003
Conference Paper The Averted Gaze: Cultural Studies & English Postgraduate Symposium, ‘Anti-Thesis’, Melbourne University: 27th June 2003
University of Chester,