What characterizes this exhibition, apart from the simple fact that all of the works derive from camera-based practices, is the interconnectedness of themes that include place, time, memory, history, the landscape, the journey, the way that all of these meet and merge within the image. Fiona Foley, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Kim Lawler are all involved in practices that investigate inscription - whether this is a tool deliberately employed by the artist as a means of interrogating her own images, or a phenomenon that is observed or revealed.

Scanning Memories by Nathalie Hartog-Gautier is a complex and comprehensive project combining archival research and personal investigation. She works with, in and on her images, creating fusions of image and text and syntheses of archival and contemporary material. The memory journey of her work is both deeply personal and broadly historical. In Kim Lawler’s aerial photographs, Between Lines, of desert landscapes we see the tracks and traces both of human intervention and of natural processes. The land is marked and can be read in a variety of ways. We know that the indigenous peoples who have inhabited this landscape for millennia have a deep understanding and an ability to mentally map its enormous, seemingly empty spaces in a way that is almost impossible to comprehend for a European understanding of space. The relationship between land, language and culture is integral to Aboriginal society, and the troubled history of the colonialist treatment of Aboriginal people and their lands is a theme dealt with by Fiona Foley as seen in Bliss.

Tracking/Tracing Seminar
21.01 12:00 - 17:00

A one-day seminar in connection with the exhibition Tracking/Tracing at Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen.
The exhibition, curated by Jeremy Welsh, features work by three Australia artists, Fiona Foley,
Nathalie Hartog-Gautier and Kim Lawler.
The seminar will focus both on works in the exhibition, and on related themes to do with place, time, memory, landscape and image.

Program:
11.45 – coffee, viewing the exhibition
12.00 – introduction, Jeremy Welsh
12.10 – screening of the video “Bliss” by Fiona Foley
12.20 – lecture by Cathie Payne, new media researcher at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and author of the catalogue text for the exhibition.
13.15 – coffee break
13.30 – Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Sydney-based artist: artist talk, presenting her work “Scanning Memories” featured in the exhibition.
14.00 – lecture by Jill Walker Rettberg, professor in Digital Cultures, University of Bergen: “Sharing photos: filtered moments of life in social media”
14.45 – coffee break
15.00 – Heidi Nicolaisen, artist and lecturer at KHIB: artist talk, presenting her current photographic project concerning distant relatives whose families emigrated from Norway to Canada
15.30 – lecture by Steven Bode, curator and director of The Film and Video Umbrella, London, on recent FVU projects dealing with landscapes, images, journeys. Steven has produced projects with a number of prominent artists including AK Dolven, Johan Grimonprez, Isaac Julien, Jane & Louise Wilson, Mark Leckey, Tacita Dean and many others.
16.30 – summing up and close.

The seminar is funded by Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen. The participation of Nathalie Hartog-Gautier and Cathie Payne has been supported with travel funding by Trade & Investment in The Arts NSW and the University of Newcastle NSW.
Fiona Foley is represented by Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria.