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Human PARSE JOURNAL
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Ingår i: PARSE Journal. ; :12
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The 2019 PARSE conference “HUMAN” invited contributions to “reimagine, remake, expose and expand the human vis-à-vis notions of the nonhuman, inhuman, subhuman, post-human and inhumane.This collection offers no singularly defined notion of human. Instead it offers positions and analysis, performances and speculations on variegated ideas of the human—with its multiple pre-fixes, hence *human. The contributors all search for revitalised understandings of human in the context of revised histories, uncertain present conditions and in a future when technology, algorithms and environmental concerns, biodiversity and human biology converge in an ethical and political quagmire.
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- Mistry, Jyoti, 1970
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"Experiments in film practices across cultural contexts”
- 2019
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Ingår i: Stockholm University of the Arts.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is a geo-economic alliance created in order to strengthen trade agreements between five nations based on their gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, particular “national expertise”, skills exchange and natural resources. To date there have been numerous debates and speculations regarding its success. But it has created an opportunity to examine the implications for how five nations with varied historical, cultural and linguistic differences forge a common vision through economic solidarity. In 2016, the NIHSS (National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences) in South Africa funded an initiative to understand the cultural impact and/or (mis)understandings, political access and impact “on the ground” (if any) of this alliance. One of the projects: Visual Methodologies in Cultural Contexts investigates how these relationships would be explored through visual methods organised in each location, around mutually agreed to themes. Images (and image-making) is increasingly central to modes of expressing research processes and outcomes across faculties and disciplines. Therefore, underpinning the approach is an interrogation of revising received certainties of western knowledge paradigms and reference points to include histories, experiences and image-making practices that draw from multiple positions and perspectives. This presentation aims to share some of the conceptual possibilities gleaned from the case studies to date in Brazil, India and China. Furthermore, the presentation aims to invite open discussion on how historical and contemporary power relations in representations might encourage collaborative understandings of image-making practices and more broadly, revitalise film practice to explore cultures across linguistic and political divides.
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“In Favor of Ambiguity. The Essay as a Political Genre”
- 2019
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Ingår i: Wespennest.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the election of Donald Trump in the US and the rise of populist parties all over Europe, writers on the left have emphasized the importance of “positioning”, or the orientation of thinking around the achievement of a political goal. In times of polarization, the luxury of ambivalence and doubt has been called into question. What does this imply for the essay, the premier genre of intellectual reflection, be it in film, literature or journalism? Is the signature prose form of magazines like wespennest, itself celebrating 50 years in the Austrian public sphere, still a relevant form for thinking about politics? Does the essay still have the power to liberate minds as well as societies?
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- Mistry, Jyoti, 1970
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"White subjectivity inside the Black experience"
- 2019
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Ingår i: Kulturhuset Oceanen, Clandestino in Gothenburg.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Frågan om tillgång till eller ”rätt att företräda” förblir på många nivåer spänd bland författare och konstnärer. Vita författare som ”talar” om svarta erfarenheter utmanas av svarta författare som ifrågasätter äktheten i subjektiviteten över rasidentiternas gränser eller dess sanna patos. Å andra sidan förväntas svarta författare utgå från självupplevda erfarenheter eller politiska ståndpunkter som uttrycker rasidentitetspolitik med en förment singularitet. Vilka ämnen anses vara relevanta eller ”lämpliga” för svarta författare att skriva om? Vilka identiteter intar positioner utfrån vilka subjektiviteter kan utforskas och uttryckas? Hur gestaltas de ”observerade livserfarenheterna” i författares och konstnärers fiktiva arbeten? I Giovannis rum skriver James Baldwin om vita karaktärers sexuella erfarenheter i Paris. Om detta beslut säger han: ‘‘Jag kunde verkligen inte – inte vid den tidpunkten i mitt liv – hantera den andra tunga bördan som vilade på mina axlar, ”problemet med de svarta” (the Negro problem). I denna presentation tar filmskaparen Jyoti Mistry itu med sin erfarenhet av att arbeta genom vita subjektiviteter utifrån en erfarenhet av svarthet. Med utgångspunkt i sin film B.E.D (1998) och klipp från Impunity (2014) erbjuder hon en serie spekulationer om hur vit subjektivitet kan komma till uttryck genom den svarta erfarenhetens position och politik. Presentationen består av filmvisning och läsning.
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