Blurring the Lines 2021

ECC Italy is proud to host the 2020 edition of Blurring the Lines in Time Space Existence, at Palazzo Mora, from 22 May to 21 November, 2021.

For the whole time of the Biennale, Blurring the Lines joins an international group of 212 architects, artists, academics, and creative professionals from over 51 countries invited to investigate our relationship with space and time, re-envisioning new ways of living and rethinking architecture through a larger lens.
Blurring the lines' focus on commitment and social/environmental concerns matches well the topic of the exhibition reflecting on the issues of our time, participants asked themselves what they can do to improve the quality of our life sustainably, with climate change, migration, water, and rapid urbanization, being the major challenges.

Created in 2016 by Klaus Fruchtnis and Steve Bisson, Blurring the Lines is an international platform of art and design academies and institutes worldwide. The platform counts with the support of Paris College of Art, Urbanautica Institute, FOTODOK, the European Cultural Centre, Fujifilm Italy, and Faservice. The platform's primary goal is to support photography education, particularly in times in which the educational systems are shifting so rapidly (i.e., formal, informal, non-formal), through three major lines the yearly call with its exhibition and publication, the annual conference, and the different professional and educational actions developed with the partners. In five editions, the platform has received more than 400 project proposals from 38 institutions worldwide; and successfully managed to exhibit the selected works at fotofever and Espace F15 in Paris, at HKU in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the Palazzo Mora at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Blurring the Lines has also contributed to the academic field with two international conferences on photography and education developed in collaboration with its partners; and published three books. 2020 will be remembered as the year in which the European Union was able to make unprecedented decisions to do everything needed to remain united, competitive, and rooted in solidarity; a year in which education systems changed; year of health disparities and socio-economic inequalities, to name a few. This edition has a distinctive flavor, and the theme “commitment” was an evident chance that allowed institutions and photographers to be part of the collective response. The question of photography’s commitment to real-world issues and its relationship provides significant directives for promoting a social engagement from photographers, changing the photographic tool. Blurring the Lines’ response is to create an active advocacy committee that promotes, supports, and conducts gender and parity, a global platform for the discussion of non-formal models or education to succeed, and geographic and socio-economic inequalities and access to education. The current global circumstances required dealing with the new roles and the new configurations of photography, understanding the medium as a collaborative process and practice, with an influential ethical role in every aspect of contemporary visual culture. In an overconnected world, subject to a constant flux of images, photography seems to be an attractive medium and a necessary field to engage a discussion on the features, advantages, limitations, and inter-relations of photography education. Photography can develop many skills and capacities, stimulating self-reflection and critical thinking, promoting creativity and personal sensitivity, social cohesion through collective reflection on society, encouraging tolerance and defense of humanism values, and fostering citizen expression. Within a perspective as such, the visions, the provocations, the stimuli that come from the students and scholars represent an essential source to feed the understanding of the complexity of the world we live in.

Blurring the Lines 2021

ECC Italy is proud to host the 2020 edition of Blurring the Lines in Time Space Existence, at Palazzo Mora, from 22 May to 21 November, 2021.

22.05.2021 — 21.11.2021

  • Venue: Palazzo Mora
  • Presence: In-person

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