Seminar
at LUX, Shacklewell Studios, London
17th October, 3pm
This seminar for artists and curators looking at the implications of artists’ film and video in the Archive. We will explore the various historical contexts, conceptual concerns and practical issues facing moving image artists working with archives both in terms of the care and preservation of their work, and accessing archives for research. The workshop will be chaired by LUX Director, Benjamin Cook with the following guest speakers:
Andrew Lampert, Head of Collections, Anthology Film Archives, New York William Fowler, Curator of Artists’ Moving image at the BFI National Archive, London and Shaina Anand, co-initiator of CAMP and http://Pad.ma
The video art programme of the 2021 Asian Art Biennial
Presented by Pad.ma
is an ongoing public-access media archival project, centered around video as a medium of documentation, collection, argumentation and exchange. Its objective is to consolidate, densely annotate, and make available online several scattered collections of video material, to begin with in Mumbai and Bangalore. Pad.ma is a collaboration between oil21.org, CAMP, Majlis, Point of View, the Alternative Law Forum, and other future contributors.
The central event of a month-long gathering organised around the 10th anniversary of Pad.ma the footage archive, and the 5th anniversary of Indiancine.ma.
Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.
Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.
Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm
We are proposing this term to think more broadly about extraction, waste, dependency, rear-guarding, mediatic conversions, in- and out-sourcing, and other aspects of chains of translation and steps of decision and production.
with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)