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Potential of postcards

Methodological questions on exhibiting, cataloguing, and communicating

04.11. - 05.11.2021

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Date

04.11. - 05.11.2021

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

NÖ Landesbibliothek, St. Pölten (AT)

Costs

€ 190, reduced fee € 140 (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

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Please register via e-mail.

 

Contact

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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Event

Views of city boulevards or idyllic landscapes, of factories or holiday resorts, of alpine peaks or people in traditional dress: since the turn of the twentieth century, postcards have not only shaped the way people see their surroundings, but also the stereotypical image of the “other”. At the same time, postcards have had a broad impact on people communicating by means of images and launching new forms of social interaction and understanding. In their complex mediality, they are an interesting and worthy topic today for a variety of reasons—also and especially in museums. But how can a mass-produced museum object like the postcard be treated adequately? What curatorial strategies are there for showing the agency of postcards in relation to collective ways of seeing and forms of knowledge? And how can we, at the same time, take into account the specific characteristics of this mass-image medium, its form of circulation by mail, and its combination of image, text, and handwriting? This topic not only presents challenges in terms of exhibiting postcard collections, but also in terms of cataloguing and (digitally) communicating them. We would like to discuss different methodological questions and approaches and explore the potential of an often-underestimated museum object.


With
Ralph Andraschek-Holzer Germanist and art historian, Lower Austrian Provincial Library, St. Pölten (AT)
Sándor Békési Historian and curator, Wien Museum (AT)
Mascha Gugganig Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa; Technical University of Munich (CAN/DE)
Wiebke Hölzer Art historian, research associate for the Wolfgang Haney Collection, Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin (DE)
Angelika Königseder Historian, Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Anti-Semitism at the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism, Berlin (DE)
Carl-Eric Linsler Historian, Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Anti-Semitism at the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism, Berlin (DE)
Antonia Nussmüller Digital Museum Practice, GrazMuseum (AT)
Evi Scheller Digital Museum, Wien Museum (AT)

 

Organiser of the workshop
Eva Tropper Management Team, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)

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