Please join us for a conversation around the publication Landscape with(out) Locus, published by Nero Editions.

How do we understand landscape today? How do we discuss and visualize nature? Can they be conceived and represented as something existing independently of the viewer?

Landscape with(out) Locus interprets landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct. Addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources, the publication follows histories of surveillance and colonialism, considering photographic (and post-photographic) images as central to our interactions with the world.

Assembling a selection of texts by scholars and artists such as T.J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, and Irmgard Emmelhainz, this book is a tool for generating knowledge on the complex relationship between our visual culture and the social and economic conditions that both shape and are shaped by it, underlining the need for a more critical and engaged attitude to visual representation and communication amid our anthropogenic environmental crisis.

On this occasion, the editors Eva Leitolf and Giulia Cordin will discuss their contributions to the publication, how this project came to be, and the process of putting it into a book.

This event is organized with the collaboration of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal. It is open to the public, no reservation needed.

Eva Leitolf is an artist, full professor, head of Studio Image, and Vice Dean for Research at the Free University of Bozen Faculty of Design and Art. Her work critically examines practices of image production and contexualization, exploring contested social phenomena such as colonialism, racism, and migration. Leitolf’s work often combines photography with textual elements, from police reports and a wide range of research to personal notes.

Giulia Cordin is a graphic designer focused on communication and editorial design. She is currently teaching at the Free University of Bozen Faculty of Design and Art as adjunct lecturer in Visual Communication and a PhD candidate in the Interface Cultures Program at the University of Art and Design Linz. Since 2018, she has been part of the editorial board of Progetto Grafico, the leading Italian magazine on graphic design culture.