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IAS Book Launch: Approaching the Sea - Allan Sekula’s Fish Story

24 October 2018, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

Sekula

Organized and moderated by Stephanie Schwartz, it invites short critical responses to the book from scholars engaged with its most contentious issues.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Stephanie Schwartz

Location

IAS Common Ground
Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

First published in 1995, Allan Sekula’s Fish Story offers one of the most important and stunning critiques of the economic logic of global capital. The book, which was produced over seven years, and combines text and photographs into an ‘experimental essay’, tackles many of the myths driving globalization, including the immateriality of labour. The sea, Sekula demonstrates in photographs and words, not the ‘information superhighway’, still moves vast amounts of goods and people around the globe. Importantly, Fish Story provides its lessons in how to negotiate contemporary mythologies through an account of documentary’s history. Throughout it builds a cogent narrative about how and why the sea came to figure as one of documentary’s main protagonists. This symposium, which celebrates the launch of a new edition of Fish Story (MACK, 2018) seeks to address the book’s continued relevance.

Speakers include:

In conjunction with the symposium, there will be a screening of one of Sekula’s most important films on the sea and its modes of consumption, Tsukiji (2001). The screening will take place at the IAS on 17 October at 6pm. Please register here.

All welcome.

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