The 3rd edition of the Counter-Image International Conference was held from August 7 to 9. The event took place at the Centre for Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, and was organized by ICNOVA in partnership with the UFSC Psychology Postgraduate Programme and with the support of APUFSC.
The theme of this year’s 2024 conference was “Counter-Image, Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: re-imagining relationships in the world” and brought together 132 researchers from 23 nationalities and various fields of knowledge, who met in a hybrid format, i.e. in person and remotely (online).
The event lasted three days, with panels, performances, workshops, book launches and film screenings. The three main speakers, Teresa Castro, Ricardo Socas Wiese and Alyne Costa, brought reflections on counter-cultural visual narratives and practices, in the direction of reflecting on the creation of fair and sustainable socio-cultural environments.
At the conference, the researchers discussed which visualities and/or counter-visualities make it possible to re-imagine and put into action new relational forms with the world, in dissent from the logics of accumulation, monoculture and extractivism. Understanding that images traverse relations between humans and non-humans and that they therefore have a performative power in these representations and in the construction of identities and worldviews, the question was raised as to what type of image production is asserting itself in contemporary times and what world they incite us to perform.
Check out the event records below!
Photos by: Andressa Colbalchini
