Author: Damian Domes

Report during the symposium: FUTURING JUSTICE My research project ‘imagining justice’ is my base to investigate how ‘futuring’ narratives can empower people under colonial hegemony today. My hybrid documentary work has been using the technique of ‘staging the self’ to confront stagnant narratives and reveal a more empowered position for my film characters. I am now…

Report during the symposium: FABLES OF POLLUTION AND MENSTRUAL CYCLES Marie Louise will tell the stories of polluted and polluting menstrual cycles, through Haraway’s ‘cyborg’ as a figure that blurs the boundary of human-technology-nature. Menstrual cycles are often stigmatized in society and ignored in medical science, yet for people who menstruate they are mundane, habitual experiences.…

Report during the symposium: MOVING IMAGE TOPOGRAPHY AS ECOCRITICISM In this talk I will present my ongoing research-project Moving Image Topography and its associated film-experiment 3xShapes of Home (2020). The project theorises how one can think spatially and embodied through the camera apparatus, about form and the impact of form on how environments are experienced and…

Report during the symposium: A MOABI TREE SPECULATES FUTURE INTERWEAVINGS OF HUMAN WITH VEGETAL LIFE I communicate with you as the tropical forest tree Moabi. I am part of the story of the dja mbo ka, meaning the opening of the world, told by the egalitarian Baka people of Central Africa. The Baka open the world…

Abstract I am presenting the 2021 edition of the A.Part Festival, a Berliner dance festival devoted to dance students and alumni. Due to the pandemic the festival was moved online in 2020 and 2021, with a slight but meaningful difference in the two editions: in 2020, the artists were supposed to bring online their creative…

Report during the symposium: RETHINKING ANIMISM AS TRANS-CORPOREAL EXISTENCES By re-conceptualizing the idea of animism and drawing on the notion of transcorporeality, other-than-human entities are agential and vital in the human to non-human political ecology. This new usage of animism emphasizes the connectivity, fluidity and relationality of entities. It is of fluid, relational, post-anthropocentric paradigms where…

Report during the symposium: SICOMORO CENTENARIO This talk will be about my research on clouds as an example of attentive rethinking of our surroundings and the resulting essayistic documentary called ‘Cloudscapes’. In this work, the cloud is viewed as a non-human actor in the Anthropocene whoseYou settle on my image a majestic sycamore-fig tree. Ficus sycomorus.  Like…

Report during the symposium: Cloudscapes This talk will be about my research on clouds as an example of attentive rethinking of our surroundings and the resulting essayistic documentary called ‘Cloudscapes’. In this work, the cloud is viewed as a non-human actor in the Anthropocene whose agency has long outstripped the weather situation. ‘Cloudscapes’ explores moments where…