Lines of Sight: W. G. Sebald's East Anglia.
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 185869693
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- SCVA, Norwich
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- May
- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The exhibition Lines of Sight: W.G. Sebald’s East Anglia, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery (10 May 2019 – 5 January 2020) was the result of research by Nick Warr into the photographic practice of the author W.G. Sebald. The research questions were:
• How did W. G. Sebald create the images in his work?
• How does knowledge of the production process of these images inform how we understand their relationship to Sebald’s creative practice?
• How is Sebald’s critical historiography articulated in his visual representations of place?
With its focus on The Rings of Saturn (1995), the research explored the importance of place in Sebald’s work. Each image from the book was exhibited in an expanded form, with the source materials (artworks, museum objects, printed ephemera, archive film and video) alongside Sebald and Brandon-Jones’ working materials and photographs to both articulate Sebald’s method and explore his complex interweaving of history and memory. Using previously unseen photographs taken on Sebald’s walks around East Anglia, the exhibition demonstrated the performative nature of the critical historiography that informs all his work.
The research identified for the first time the collaborative nature of Sebald’s work, detailing how and where Sebald’s photographs were made. The exhibition offers a reading of Sebald’s photography not as after the fact and illustrative, but rather as a primary and vital part of Sebald’s working method, suggesting that his writing should be comprehensively reassessed in the light of this photographic archive.
The research was disseminated through the exhibition and public events.
Evidence of the originality, significance and rigour of the research, and the modes of dissemination can be found in the portfolio.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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