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Allan Sekula

Allan Sekula
b. 1951 in Erie, PA, USA; d. 2013 in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Work in the exhibition
Waiting for Tear Gas, 1999–2000
Slide installation in 81 parts with wall text
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur

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From the late 1970s onward, Allan Sekula influenced many artists and researchers with his combined photo and text works and theoretical writing. In autumn 1999, protests were being staged against the 3rd World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference also taking place in Seattle. Sekula photographed these protests and produced Waiting for Tear Gas (1999–2000), consisting of 81 slides and a short text, which will be shown at Parasophia. The photographic sequence, which rejects a journalistic photographic approach, is presented with an evocative sound accompanying each change of slide, capturing the slow and uncertain flow of time even within the framework of a protest with ostensibly clearly determined roles and positions.

Venues

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art

Allan Sekula, Waiting for Tear Gas, 1999–2000. Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur. Installation view at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015. Photo by Norimasa Kawata
Allan Sekula, Waiting for Tear Gas, 1999–2000. Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur. Installation view at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015. Photo by Norimasa Kawata
Allan Sekula, Waiting for Tear Gas, 1999–2000. Slide installation in 81 parts with wall text. Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
Allan Sekula, Waiting for Tear Gas, 1999–2000. Slide installation in 81 parts with wall text. Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur