In and Out of Brussels examines four Brussels-based artistic projects that converge in critically investigating the figuration of Africa in the image economy of the West: Herman Asselberghs's Speech Act (2011), Sven Augustijnen s Spectres (2011), Renzo Martens s Episode III Enjoy Poverty (2008), and Els Opsomer s Building Stories: That Distant Piece of Mine (2012). While each is a singular film, together they reveal Africa s postcolonial imaginary to be a zone of crisis, situated between humanitarian emergency, financial pillage, and the...

• uses case studies to explain photographic practices in contemporary art and place them in the context of theory
• presents current debates on theory of photography through comparisons to research of other...

Ship of Fools/The Dockers' Museum is the project on which the North American artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010 2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of more than one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints that the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary...