Online symposium: Documentary Futures – Redefining Technical Images and Speculative Blind-Spots

8 May 2023

The Moth House partners with the University of South Wales to present a one-day online symposium Documentary Futures: Redefining Technical Images and Speculative Blind-Spots on 1 June, 10:30 -17:00. Speakers include Edgar Martins, Maja Daniels, Michael Reisch, Rosa Menkman, Theo Jean Cuthland, Michal O’Connell, Pinar Yoldas, Mark Kasumovic.
A recording of the event can be viewed here.

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Kushti

Polly Tootal

Wrestling, by Polly Tootal, is from her ongoing series The Hands That Built This City, which documents the daily lives of the men who live in the UAE’s labour camps, in all its banality and complexity. The labourers, brought in to prop up Dubai’s infrastructural aspirations are often enticed with false promises of prosperity, only to end up earning meagre wages and living in crowded accommodations with no proper plumbing.

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Kushti

From the series The Hands That Built the City I Edition 1/5 I Artistic Practice Support Print Sales Program #3

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This is not a House

Edgar Martins, Peter D. Osborne, Sacha Craddock

In study that goes beyond mere documentation, this publication brings us a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of people, in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the USA.

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This is not a House

Collector's edition

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What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase

Edgar Martins, Mark Durden

This project results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands (UK), their families and local organisations and individuals. By giving a voice to his subjects, the author proposes to rethink and counter the sort of imagery normally associated with incarceration and confinement.

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What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase

Collector's edition

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The Time Machine

Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda

Shot between 2010 and 2011, this book is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. No more than half a dozen people run power stations which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just a few decades ago. This project is, thus, not just about the generation of power of also of dreams and technological utopias.

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The Time Machine

Edition #2

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