The World is Not Enough

Anna Aicher, Rachel Israela, Daniel Kovalenko (KORA), Florian Krauss, Fay Nolan, Melanie Pichler, Josua Piorr, David Rank (KORA), Ruben Riermeier, Rio Schmidt, Adam Sevens, Ender Suenni

‘Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. Through the image the world asserts its discontinuity, its fragmentation, its artificial instantaneousness. The degree of intensity of the image matches the degree of its denial of the real, its invention of another scene. To make an image of an object is to strip the object of all its dimensions one by one: weight, relief, smell, depth, time, continuity and, of course, meaning. This disembodiment is the price to be paid for that power of fascination which the image acquires, the price for its becoming a medium of pure objectality, becoming transparent to a subtler form of seduction.’ (Jean Baudrillard: For Illusion Isn’t the Opposite of Reality (1998), in Jean Baudrillard, Photographies 1985–88, 2000). This text excerpt from Jean Baudrillard served as a basis for the conception and realisation of film and photographic projects that investigate photography as a dispositive whose conditions are variously connoted in terms of culture, society, politics, and the media.