Photography, body and vital experience

Jesús Micó

13th June, 19.00 hours | The Art and History Museum

Photography, body and vital experience
The conference will be on the intimate relation that arises between the ideas of photography and existence. A relation which, in most of the cases, is not given the degree of prominence and attention it deserves , as photographers are usually more concerned about capturing what happens in the outside world in front of their cameras than about offering us what lies behind them. And our existence has a favourite biological stage: the body. For that reason, the conference aims at defending the idea that photographing a naked body is a determined act of ethic and aesthetic commitment if we take into account everything goes through the body: being in or out of love, affection, illusions, fears, wishes, sensuality, sex, pain, pleasure, moral, life, death, etc. A conference for the audience’s critical stimulation, especially of the new or emerging authors through the photography of the human body and the personal diary, really hot topics in contemporary photography.

The Art and History Museum
San Agustin, 16

Jesús Micó (Cádiz, 1962) has lived in Barcelona for a decade and he is devoted to the creation, administration, research and teaching of Photography. He is a Doctor of Arts with a degree specializing in Photography by the University of Barcelona. He gives classes and conferences on The Theory, History and Aesthetics of photography in different public universities, art centres, festivals and Spanish private schools. He is a commissioner of exhibitions, his specialty being the promotion of new authors. He is responsible for the programming of the KURSALA( the Contemporary Photography Gallery at the University of Cádiz) and its collection of photobooks (Cuadernosde la Kursala). Among many others, he has commissioned the international exhibitions “Talent Latent “2010 and 2012 in the heart of SCAN Tarragona Festival and is currently working on the preparation of Talent Latent 2014. His personal work can be seen on www.jesusmico.com.