Seeing Volume 1
Zurich, VC Editions
2023
Seeing is a series of books that contemplates the peripheries of what we consider visually perceptible, comprehensible, or expressible. If what we find here are images, then they attempt to elude our awareness. They may appear volatile, fleeting, impermeable, enigmatic, disquieting, inferior, or irrelevant, and therefore we tend to spurn or disregard them. Each book in this series assembles contributions that navigate a constellation of related ideas, allowing a reciprocal meditation on and renewed attention to what usually remains hidden from our gaze.
Seeing Volume 1 explores images of abjectness, horror, and the otherworldly, featuring essays and observations by students of the MA in Visual Communication at the Zurich University of the Arts in response to two seminars on Visual Culture taught by Björn Franke and Annamaria Vasvari. A short story by artist and filmmaker Noam Toran and an interview between designer Romy Strasser and Andreas Fischer, an expert on paranormal images, flank these responses.
The publication can be ordered here.
Credits
Editors: Björn Franke, Annamaria Vasvari, Sarah Owens
Contributors: Andreas Fischer, Walesca Frank, Miloš Gavrić, Julia Mann, Carolina Márquez Bernard,
Sabrina Öttl, Nathalie Pollok, Dominic Rechsteiner, Romy Strasser, Noam Toran
Design: Ronny Hunger
Photos: Matthias Buenzli