Conference: "There is no such thing as documentary"Session 3: Performing the Documents

Conference: "There is no such thing as documentary"
Session 3: Performing the Documents

Session 3: Performing the Documents Chaired by Dr Ella Raidel (Austria/Singapore), Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media and Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Speakers:
Dr Philippa Lovatt (Scotland), Lecturer, Film Studies and Co-Director, Centre for Screen Studies, University of St Andrews
Rosalia Namsai Engchuan (Germany/Thailand), anthropologist and filmmaker

Respondent:
Silke Schmickl (Germany/Hong Kong), Curator

This panel attempts to define documents and performativity in filmmaking in terms of its methods, artistic processes and cultural political significance. To perform the documents means to take action to reveal their inner logic of cultural representation. Through the consideration of documents in relation to poetics, participation and activism it shows the way how colonial truth and knowledge are being constructed and how diasporic histories are experienced. Films become not only cultural-political texts, but also visual and acoustic apparatuses in making aware one’s origins and destinies.

2021-02-27

English

This panel attempts to define documents and performativity in filmmaking in terms of its methods, artistic processes and cultural political significance.

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