First presented at ‘Agents of Concern’, PXL MAD, Belgium.

Also presented as guest lecture on iconology at KULeuven (invited by prof. dr. Koenraad van Cleempoel).

The finger pointing at the picture

Inspired by Aby Warburg’s seismographic approach to depictions of embodied emotion, this creative-critical lecture seeks to suggest the performative possibilities of iconology, creating a study that becomes self-aware of its own gesturality and position. An empathetic network of different agents (images, researchers, audiences, etc.) emerges. The seismographic ripples detected in different images speak of citational, and otherwise intermedial capacities for recognition and identification—of the pictures, and of the finger pointing at them, too.