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- Mistry, Jyoti, 1970
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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, et al.
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“Introduction” in Living with Ghosts: Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism
- 2019
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Ingår i: L'Internationale Online.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Living with Ghosts: Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism, is a constellation of essays, conversations and images that point to the manner in which the legacies of colonialism and fascism reverberate in our present conjuncture. The impulse for producing this issue was a question of whether it may be possible to trace the connections between the violences of the colonial project through the horrors of fascism to current forms of racism, identitarianism and populism – what we initially called 'an arc' of colonialism-nationalism-fascism. These shifts are palpable in the contemporary political uncertainties expressed in this collection of texts. Each of the contributors reflect on the specificities of their environment through their lived experiences, through their artistic practices, or reflections on the curatorial climate. They seek to maintain a space for critical engagement and political criticism. Furthermore, this issue considers the layers of historical conditions that inform states of 'belonging' and 'sovereignty' (even 'citizenry' as a debatable proposition) in Europe. What becomes evident from these various contributions is that there is no sudden or surprising development towards the right – too often expressed an 'inexplicable phenomena' of contemporary society. They instead address it as a slow and steady movement based on historical events and political terms of reference which have remain unresolved and have again returned, this time through the opportunism advanced and fuelled by the structures of capitalism that connect Europe to Russia and America. Each is a case study that recognises the patterns of violence and inequality evident in the political structures of colonialism and fascism.
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- Mistry, Jyoti, 1970
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Negotiating the proposition of monoculture by exploring identity politics and subjectivity at Considering monoculture conference organised in the framework of “Our Many Europes"
- 2020
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Ingår i: L'Internationale.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Black writers are continually expected to draw from immediate lived-experiences or political positions which express racial identity politics with an assumed singularity; often expressed as an essentialized black experience. What then is considered relevant or “appropriate” subject matter for black writers or artists? What identity politics presumes positions from which subjectivities can be explored and expressed? Moreover, how does the idea of monoculture in identity politics feature inside the subjective, when geography and migration displaces these assumed or essentialized meanings of race and/or cultural access. How do “observed lived-experiences” feature alongside the imagination of (black) artists? This reading-screening explores the subject relationships between the experiences of characters in Paris in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and the experiences of character’s in Jyoti Mistry’s film B.E.D (1997) set in New York City. The reading-screening is a play on the veracity of experiences from different subject positions and draws from mobilities between Paris, New York and Johannesburg to challenge the assumptions of race identity politics. The interplay of written-spoken text with the film serves to implicitly invite reflections on how culture and cultural access makes certain opportunities for the expression of subjectivity possible.
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- Mistry, Jyoti, 1970
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“Transnationalism or Barbarism”
- 2019
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Ingår i: Alte Schmiede.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The space that is not ( u-topos ) could be the future that will be. A better future, for everyone on earth and also for our battered planet. In an era full of dark forebodings and visions, the future is no longer a matter of course (the apocalypse flows into every household at a flat rate) and optimism is a threatened attitude. We are forgetting that history is not a sure-fire success and fatalism is the coward's last refuge. It depends on us how we shape the future. Prerequisites for this are drafts and concepts that think into the unknown and the unknown, alternatives to the current system, which is known to claim to be without alternatives. Contrary to all dogmatic calls to doom in the media and digital spheres, visions of a different kind of society are by no means in short supply or nonexistent. On the contrary: they are diverse and abundant and at the same time mostly invisible, little known and therefore rarely popular. To change this, the literature this year will focus on concrete utopian thinking, as a creative and life-affirming answer to the destructive processes of an uncontrolled, exploitative capitalism. Based on the conviction that human progress is first sown in ideas before it merges into transformations, we have invited thinkers and activists, experts and gifted lay people, musicians and philosophers from seven European countries. In lectures and discussions, important topics such as grassroots democracy, universalism and cultural diversity, human rights and economy, aesthetics of the utopian as well as the beauty of resistance to the ruling line will be brushed under the symbolically towering pillars of the Odeon Theater. All lectures are documented and collected, because this is the start of a multi-year series of events under this name, in which as many citizens as possible should be addressed: a petrol station for alternative intellectual fuel, a collecting tank for everyone who knows deep down that it cannot go on as before and they are looking for real alternatives. We want this existentially important discourse between the 22nd and 25th Toast in Vienna in November. You are cordially invited to our utopian oasis!
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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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