Category: committee

Report during the symposium: THE SETTLERS OF VILLA FUTURO ‘The Settlers of Villa Futuro’ is a participative audio-visual storytelling project exploring the participative narratives of precarious urban communities to reflect on our own possibilities and limitations to imagine the future together. The project is a speculative fabulation of the future based on the intelligence of solidarity…

The Uncertain Marriage of Posthumanism and Sound Art Post-humanism as a philosophy has many heterogeneous factions: the cybernetic post-humanists are preoccupied with the human being fused with an intelligent machine. Critical post-humanists rail against the hollowness of the claims of ‘universalism’ underlying Western European/Enlightenment philosophy, rejecting anthropocentrism. Radical eliminative post-humanists envision a world where existing…

Report during the symposium: HOW TO BUILD A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE AND SOCIETY THROUGH ECOPERFORMANCES’ RECORDINGS IN IMMERSIVE VIDEO FORMAT Immersive video (360-degree video, spherical video), which is often used with virtual reality (VR) technology, is a type of video content that is designed to make viewers feel like they are inside recorded space, environment,…

Report during the symposium: ICONOCEAN: ICONIC RETURN TO THE SOURCE AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE IMAGE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE According to some ancient sources, iconoclastic politics in the Byzantine empire began when Leo III interpreted natural catastrophes as signs of divine wrath caused by the idolatry of images. By defending the orthodoxy of icons, the iconophile…

Report during the symposium: A DISCOURSE ON POSTHUMAN COMMUNICATION: BEYOND THE SYNTACTICAL LANGUAGE. The ontology of human thought and emotions is too abstract to be conveyed using mere language. Semantic barriers have always prevented absolute communication across species and borders. The absurdity of syntactical language is found to be insufficient by the posthumans, and, therefore, they…

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…