What scares a nation - gunmen who hold children ransom or infamous terrorists? Useful Photography 011 rifles through the history of human targets culled from US shooting ranges. In this age of high impact gun crime, are the participants seeking protection or accelerating the violence?

Outcome of the multifaceted project In and Out of Brussels - book & DVD

In and Out of Brussels examines four Brussels-based artistic projects that converge in critically investigating the figuration of Africa in the image economy of the West: Herman Asselberghs's Speech Act (2011), Sven Augustijnen's Spectres (2011), Renzo Martens's Episode III - Enjoy Poverty (2008) and Els Opsomer's Building Stories: That Distant Piece of Mine (2012).

While each is a singular film, together they reveal Afr...

Exploring the epistemological potential of meta- and inter-images.

Since the 1990s, when the question of the visual became central in various arts and humanities disciplines, images that refer to themselves as such or to other images have enjoyed an increasing interest. 'Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture' partakes in, enriches and updates these debates. It investigates what meta- and inter-images can make known about the visual, in its own terms, by its own means.

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