Fountains of Youth CreamFri Jul 19 2022The “Fountain of Youth” is a mythical source of water that allegedly has the power to restore youth and vitality to those who bathe in its waters. In the upcoming session titled “Fountains of Youth Cream” the focus centers on the seemingly ordinary theme of age(ing) from various points of view: from the biological process of growth and decay, to its socially-rendered image; from the “I took a picture every day for x-years” video trend, to marriage, life stages, rites of passage, photography, before-after comparisons, skin(care), advertising, youth and water. We ask: is youth a form of capital? How is the process of growth and decay atomised through images in culture? Is time a currency? What underlies the association between youth and water? How do we reflect this to skincare ideals? What underlies the association between youth and water?… get ready to plunge into these questions. This collective conversation will be initiated by a small exploratory lecture, afterwards we’ll together discuss different snippets of texts, videos and images.
Keywords: ageism, time, photography, wedding imagery, baby birth images, battle of the generations, change, transformation, grow, adapt, disrupt, revolutionise, decompose, fade, mature, get off, flourish, generate, re-generate, corrode, go in fashion, melts, condensate, oxidise...