The third annual conference of the DFG Research Training Group “Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation” which will take place from May 8-10, 2025 at the Kunstmuseum Bochum represents both the conclusion and the imminent disbanding of a research context that has grown for nine years. We thus suggest that we think about the documentary with regard to its ends and that we direct our focus to liminal medial and aesthetic figures of documentary modes of existence in scholarly disciplines and the arts. If it is the observational frame that determines when a process comes to its end, then we wish to probe the terms, practices, and politics that form the image that we can make with and out of ends.

Contact: 404notfound-tagung@rub.de

Organizing team: Franziska Barth, Lena Demary, Anna Grelik, Anne Hemkendreis, Katharina Król, Anne Küper, Ying Sze Pek, Catherin Persing, Lana Uzarashvili
Conference team: Schaja Aenehsazy, Rose Beermann, Barbara Fromme, Philipp Hohmann, Katharina Menschick, Paulena Müller, Felix Rissel, Lisa Römer, Robin Schrade, Chisa Tanimoto, Amelie Wedel, Maximiliane Wildenhues

Program: https://das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/404notfound/