Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear

Lead essays - 5000 words each: 1. Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA. Marcoci's essay will address the multitude of creative platforms and formats across which Tillmans's images have proliferated, considering dissemination and distribution as a medium. 2. Clement Cheroux, Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA. Cheroux will provide close analysis of the dialectics of photography and sculpture in Tilmans's work. 3. Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University; or Kitty Scott, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario; or Florian Ebner, Chief Curator of Photography, Centre Pompidou. This essay will consider Tillmans's trenchant investigation of spatial politics and the global built environment. 4. David Joselit, Graduate Center, CUNY, will consider the links between the artist's use of unframed prints and unpretentious media. Chronology - 4000 words: This series of short essays by Phil Taylor will incorporate new insights into the artist's biography, and will theorize the relationship between Tillmans's work and the social, political and historical context in which it was produced. Shorter Thematic studies - 3000 words each: 1. Photography as Model, by Yve-Alain Bois 2. Portraiture, by Hilton Als 3. Still Life, by Maggie Nelson 4. Darkroom Experimentation, by Quentin Bajac 5. Video and Sound Art, by Stuart Comer 6. From a Painter's Eyes, by Jutta Koether 7. Print Media, by Paul Flynn 8. The Politics of the Body, by Paul B. Preciado or Richard Meyer 9. Re-Mix: Music and Electronic Media, by Seth Price 10. Art and Technology, by Michelle Kuo 11. Spirituality, by Phil Taylor 12. Exhibition as Activism, by Matthew Higgs