Peripheral Visions: Lecture at The University of Nova Gorica

Talking Necropolitics, Borders and Art

With Goriza and Nova Gorica named Europe’s first “borderless” capital of culture, I have been commissioned to give a lecture on behalf of The University of Nova Gorica and its partner in this endeavor, Iodeposito. Their copy is as follows:

Starting from the experience of the visual artist and researcher Joseph Cochran (New York) and aiming to suggest possible peripheral visions to the historical and sociological study of the cross-border society, a lecture to explore how photography and archival practices can act at the intersection between the legacies of the past and current socio-economic and political narratives, giving impetus to new interpretation.

In an open dialogue with university students, researchers, and archivists, the artist will show the research process that led him to the creation of one of his latest works, The Quartermaster, exhibited in Malta during its first biennale (2024). An artistic project of historical research that tries to reinterpret themes such as necropolitics, slavery, and migration in a continuous dialogue between past and contemporary times, local context,t, and peripheral vision. An opportunity to cultivate a multiplicity of thought and foster change.

The Quartermaster and the Borders of Power: the artistic research as a practice of historical and sociological investigation

Tuesday 15th of April at 4pm @ UNG – University of Nova Gorica (Classroom P1 on the first floor, Vipavska cesta 13, rožna Dolina, 5000, Nova Gorica) and online on the project platform. Registration can be found at the following link:

https://www.peripheralvisions.eu/2025/04/02/joseph-cochran-lecture-register-here/