Symposium: Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History Welcome Address by Ute Meta Bauer and Keynote Lecture: “The Art of Uncertainty” by Dr May Adadol Ingawanij, curator and moving image theorist, Co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, London

The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Focusing on artists' cinema and moving image installations in Southeast Asia, the keynote lecture addresses the relationship between contemporary moving image aesthetics, historical invocation, and the politics of enunciation. Dr Ingawanij will expand on how everyday life, conflicts, violence, and historical erasures specific to places in Southeast Asia are sources of inspiration and motivation for many artists.