worker photography_from ahmedabad, surat, mumbai

Dec. 22, 2018

Photography from Surat, Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
With Aajeevika Bureau, which organises support services as well as runs photography clubs with migrant worker groups in these cities.
The format is: watching 60 projected photographs in some detail over two hours, while talking about them. Photos are selections from the Aajeevika series: Ek Ghar, Ghar se Door. Several of the photographers will attend.
Photo above: at Ved Road, Surat, by Shiv Malik from Ganjam, Odisha.

Events

Far from Philadelphia
Dec. 6, 2024
Widener Hall, Penn Museum, UPENN

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.

Asia Pacific Triennial
Nov. 30, 2024 - April 24, 2025
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Machine Visions
Nov. 21, 2024
Columbia University, New York

On AI by CAMP

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Nov. 14, 2024
Public Trust, Philadelphia

Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.

الجار قبل الدار The Neighbour Before the House
Nov. 7, 2024
12 Gates Art, Philadelphia

Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm

The Neighbour before the House
Oct. 10, 2024
Union Docs, NY

Geographies of Belonging

Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Oct. 3, 2024
Rice University, Houston

From Land to Sea
Sept. 21, 2024
Art Jameel, Dubai

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Vertical Integration
Sept. 19, 2024
Columbia University

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.

Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset
Aug. 27, 2024 - Dec. 20, 2024
Center For Experimental Ethnography, UPENN

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:)

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