Poetics of Space: The Place We Call Home
This course invites you to explore the potential of your home as both site and subject for photographic practice. Drawing inspiration from The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard’s philosophical investigations of the house as a primary site for memory, imagination, and future possibilities — we’ll work across genres to develop new perspectives on the place we call home. We’ll examine the work of photographers such as Robert Frank, Tina Modotti, Sophie Calle, Carrie Mae Weems, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Corresponding weekly exercises will prompt you to experiment with forensic, intimate, and playful approaches to investigating the visual and conceptual possibilities of your home and its contents. We’ll discuss your work as it develops and, together, build a deeper understanding of how photographing “home” may communicate lived experience, speak about who we want to be, or reflect who we truly are.
Marianne Holm Hansen is a Danish artist based in London. She studied at the Fynske Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), International Center of Photography (New York), and completed an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has worked internationally as an editorial photographer, photography lecturer and educator, and today collaborates continuously with institutions such as Tate Modern and the Royal Institute of British Architects (London) to deliver workshops and projects that invite participants to engage critically and creatively across media and themes.
Marianne’s work is shown internationally through exhibitions, publications, and live events. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York) and Arts Council England, amongst others, and held research and production residencies in the UK, USA, France, Finland, and Serbia. Her most recent book, Void As (A) – A Proposition, collates photographs with texts to propose a series of prompts for thinking differently about language, time and space.
Marianne teaches combining image and text, how to use architectural space to tell a story, and more for StrudelmediaLive.