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Talk: Past Futures | MATTIAS BRAND
Archaeology, astronaut gods, and mysterious artifacts: Alternative historical narratives often make use of images that aim to be more than mere illustrations.
Archaeology, astronaut gods, and mysterious artifacts: Alternative historical narratives often employ images that aim to be more than mere illustrations. They appear as supposed evidence, shift interpretations of archaeological finds, and connect historical fragments with modern imaginings of the space age.
Drawing on Chloe Wise’s exhibition *Extrasensory*, Mattias Brand examines the visual strategies of such narratives. The focus is on how images, regimes of the gaze, and iconographic motifs legitimize narratives about extraterrestrial interventions, past futures, and alternative origins of humanity. Why are UFOs, astronaut gods, and inexplicable artifacts so well-suited as projection surfaces for the unspeakable? And how does the “Extrasensory” affect us through the visible?
Mattias Brand combines research in the field of religious studies with questions of visuality, media history, and alternative historicity. The lecture explores how images in religious, cultural, and popular contexts generate evidence and how conceptions of the past, present, and future intertwine within them.
The talk will be held in German and is free of charge. To register, email: [email protected]@nodomain.comch
Drawing on Chloe Wise’s exhibition *Extrasensory*, Mattias Brand examines the visual strategies of such narratives. The focus is on how images, regimes of the gaze, and iconographic motifs legitimize narratives about extraterrestrial interventions, past futures, and alternative origins of humanity. Why are UFOs, astronaut gods, and inexplicable artifacts so well-suited as projection surfaces for the unspeakable? And how does the “Extrasensory” affect us through the visible?
Mattias Brand combines research in the field of religious studies with questions of visuality, media history, and alternative historicity. The lecture explores how images in religious, cultural, and popular contexts generate evidence and how conceptions of the past, present, and future intertwine within them.
The talk will be held in German and is free of charge. To register, email: [email protected]@nodomain.comch