Reimagining Citizenship: Babli Assignment 2, Part 1

There are two options for this assignment:

Option 1)  read the following (academic) article about cultural citizenship:

Delanty, Gerard (2002). "Two Conceptions of Cultural Citizenship: A Review of Recent Literature on Culture and Citizenship." In: The Global Review of Ethnopolitics. March 2002, vol 1, no 3., 6-66.

http://www.ethnopolitics.org/ethnopolitics/archive/volume_I/issue_3/delanty.pdf


Option 2) Listen to these three short debates (26 minutes each) in chronological order and note the changes over time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0l2UAQSYBU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fASuId3MtWc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QINLCK1hXA


1) What stands out to you?
2) What are the most important points for you?
3) What from the article/debate links to reimagining citizenship artistically?
4) Please suggest creative assignment possibilities.
5) Any other observations?

Reimagining Citizenship Creative Assignment 1: Embodying Savagery

more than/less than one: embodying savagery from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
password "moten"

(1) What specific connections do you see between this video study and the ideas in Fred Moten's talk?
(2) What moments draw you in?  What might you like to see more of?  Less of?  What do you make of the overall trajectory, cuts, and transitions?
(3) How might you imagine this video in dialogue with the other material of "blood run"?  Do you imagine it as part of the live performance?  A stand-alone video?  Part of an installation?  Etc.
(4) What kind of relationship do you see between the moving body and the ethnographic images?  
(5) How do you understand the connections between indigeneity and blackness?  Is it fruitful to make connections or simply problematic or destructive?
(6) Other thoughts or suggestions?

Context: My friend Caitlin helped me film the existing movement phrase from blood-run that is based on colonial ethnographic drawings of Taiwanese indigenous peoples.  She is also interested in doing her own cut of the footage.  There are some video file format issues and some of the footage seems to be a different aspect ratio than other parts -- something I'll try to address if you think the study is worth pursuing further.

Videography: Caitlin Spencer
Performance and Editing: Cynthia Ling Lee