Organised around the theme Deep Time, Shallow Time, the 2024 workshop builds on the insights and inter-connections developed across previous keynote lectures, panels and debates, and will venture more deeply into concepts of time and temporal fluidity in relation to the visual. This is especially apt given photography’s initial conception as a triumph against the corruption of time, superseding the loss of the moment, arresting decline and even mortality.

What are the modes of historical consciousness related to this? What are the cultural and anthropocentric constructions of time in which we are trapped? Drawing on photographs and other visual and sensory media, the workshop will address the question of time through a range of concepts and framings. These include: Scale, Genesis/gestation/gesture, Returns/oscillations, Liquidity, Emergence/Emergency, Cide/s, Curator/caretaker.