Challenging Geopolitical Consciousness: Latency in the Representation of Geopolitics and Power in the Photographic Work of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg from

我将研究德国摄影师UrsulaSchulz-Dornburg（1938）作品的政治和时间维度，重点关注延迟及其作为政治工具的力量。舒尔茨-多恩伯格是一位在世的艺术家，以她的黑白概念照片而闻名。自20世纪70年代以来，她一直以系列项目为基础，在过去的50年里，她的建筑和景观作品一直贯穿始终。通过她的工作，她去过俄罗斯、亚美尼亚、沙特阿拉伯、缅甸、哈萨克斯坦、伊拉克和阿塞拜疆等不同的国家。在我的研究中，她的档案将作为一个模型，用于研究地点的图像及其随时间变化的背景。在这个项目中定义的平坦度的概念来自德语单词Erwartung，从等待，意思是期望，期待，推测；它是潜在的、尚未显现的、永远存在的。通过考虑图像中隐藏的东西——比如她照片背景中看不见但同样真实的地缘政治边界——我将质疑舒尔茨-多恩伯格的艺术实践和她的激进主义之间的交集。我将把她的作品与其他在中东和高加索地区拍摄相同地点的人的作品进行对比，无论是历史上还是现在。我将探索，作为延迟的函数，这些图像中的意义是如何变得明显的，并将继续这样做。

I will investigate the political and temporal dimensions of the work of German photographer UrsulaSchulz-Dornburg (1938), focussing on latency and its power as a political tool. Schulz-Dornburg isa living artist, known for her mostly black-and-white conceptual photographs. She has madeseries-based projects since the 1970s, with an oeuvre of architecture and landscape which spansthe past 50 years. Through her work, she has travelled to countries as diverse as Russia, Armenia,Saudi Arabia, Burma, Kazakhstan, Iraq and Azerbaijan. In my research, her archive will function asa model for examining images of place and their changing contexts across time. The concept oflatency, as defined in this project, draws from the German word Erwartung, from waiting, meaningexpectation, anticipation, speculation; it is underlying, yet-to-be-manifest, ever-present. Byconsidering what is concealed within an image - like the invisible but no less real geopoliticalborders in the background of her photographs - I will question the intersection between Schulz-Dornburg's artistic practice and her activism. I will contrast her work with that of others who havecaptured the same sites in the Middle East and Caucasus, historically and present-day. I willexplore how, as a function of latency, meaning in these images is still becoming manifest and willcontinue to do so.