“Not being active under this regime is something I can’t justify.” *

In this seminar we will be looking at antiracist and feminist film and media works from the fields of art, cinema and activism past and present. We will analyse – individually, together, and in groups – how our viewpoints are shaped (in part) by our own history and positionedness within society, and how this knowledge can help us develop a critical visual idiom and position.

Using feminist and antiracist critiques of representation, we will define criteria for modes of looking at, discussing and producing things during the seminar. On this basis, you will develop your individual and/or collective artistic projects.

We will work with small exercises, practical and theoretical approaches, and paradoxical interventions. Guest artists and filmmakers will show their works and answer questions. The seminar will be conducted in a gender-aware manner and (if necessary) we will use languages other than the hegemonic German and English. Your criticisms and suggestions will flow into the way the seminar is conducted. In the intermediate presentation your projects-in-process will be discussed. In the final presentation we will discuss the finished projects with guests from inside and outside the university. Under certain conditions, it will be possible to join the seminar in the summer semester.

* Anna Čadia, in: Moments of Resistance, 2019

Regular and critical participation.
Development and presentation of a film project.
Text on a film project of a fellow student.
Submission in digital form (7 days before the presentation).

Time

The two classes, Technologien/Praxen and Künstlerische Projektarbeit, are linked in a double session that will take place (with breaks) on Fridays from 11:00 to 14:30.
Seminar block with camera exercises on 4. April from 11:00 to 18:00.
Special event: 
Guest lecture by Jannik Franzen as part of the series “Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity” on 28. March at 11:00, Auditorium, VZA7.

Place
SR 24, VZA7

Initial discussion session
Friday, 7. March, SR 24, 11:00 to 14:30

Information
jo.schmeiser@uni-ak.ac.at

Max. participants: 15