Trinh T Minh-ha: Symposium
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
'It is necessary for me always to keep in mind that one cannot really theorize about film, but only with film. This is how the field can remain open.' Trinh T Minh-ha, Framer Framed
As part of the ICA retrospective of Vietnamese-born writer, theorist, composer and filmmaker Trinh T Minh-ha's moving image work, this symposium brings together artists, writers, academics and filmmakers to discuss themes related to Trinh's practice.
Taking into consideration the artist's concept of film as a 'resonance event', the participants explore connections to themes such as feminism, the fluidity of identity, digital and migratory aesthetics, and new forms of kinship and collaboration. The speakers touch upon the timeliness of Trinh's films and writings, in particular through a commitment to transcultural narratives of difference and the expression of the experience of 'being in expulsion'.
Speakers include Sutapa Biswas (artist), Catherine Grant (Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies, Birkbeck, University of London), Sophie Hope (curator and lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London), Lucy Reynolds (researcher, curator and artist, University of Westminster), Alison Rowley (Reader in Cultural Theory, University of Huddersfield), Valentina Vitali (Professor of Film Studies, University of East London), susan pui san lok (artist) and Sarah Wood (curator and artist filmmaker).
A screening of Sarah Wood's short film Azure forms part of the symposium programme (Azure, dir, Sarah Wood, United Kingdom 2016, video).
Tickets are £5-8 and can be purchased from the ICA.
This event is organised in partnership with the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London.