Create a movement phrase remix and a written remix integrating parts of each of our gestures and words from our creative responses #1.
We can add words/phrases/images/metaphors from our meeting minutes.
Post on blog by January 16th 2017.
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Borders Resurfacing: Shy's creative response 1
3 movements: all passwords are "gesture"
Gesture 1 not a pretty beach from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Gesture 2 marked suspicious from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Gesture 3 backfire... from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
photos: Long Beach, Dec 2016
Excerpt of my free write (I bolded the phrases I used for movement inspirations):
"It's not a pretty beach" I usually warn visitors, so their expectations are not too high. My visitors first notice the well manicured island with palm trees and a few tall narrow structures that look like small condos. Wealthy get away? Theme park? No, it's an oil island. Long Beach is built on oil? Guilt on oil? Where does it go? We still buy imported gas! Our 1900 miles of pipeline built on Tongva land (quoting a FB post from Jools) is a tiny reflection of the DAPL: So much can be hidden under water until the inevitable moment of structural fail as human's imperfect creations backfire into spluttering bubbles of wing destroying sludge. (I don't usually say that to my guests!) When they look past the island, to the right, in the distance, it's all rigs and cranes and metal frames that clog the horizon. That's the Port of LA. It was there, at the edge of my adopted city, that a Pakistani-American I once knew, lost his import export business because his incoming crates were marked suspicious after 9-11, never again to be released. Could they still be sitting there is some forgotten lot?
Gesture 1 not a pretty beach from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Gesture 2 marked suspicious from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Gesture 3 backfire... from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
photos: Long Beach, Dec 2016
Excerpt of my free write (I bolded the phrases I used for movement inspirations):
"It's not a pretty beach" I usually warn visitors, so their expectations are not too high. My visitors first notice the well manicured island with palm trees and a few tall narrow structures that look like small condos. Wealthy get away? Theme park? No, it's an oil island. Long Beach is built on oil? Guilt on oil? Where does it go? We still buy imported gas! Our 1900 miles of pipeline built on Tongva land (quoting a FB post from Jools) is a tiny reflection of the DAPL: So much can be hidden under water until the inevitable moment of structural fail as human's imperfect creations backfire into spluttering bubbles of wing destroying sludge. (I don't usually say that to my guests!) When they look past the island, to the right, in the distance, it's all rigs and cranes and metal frames that clog the horizon. That's the Port of LA. It was there, at the edge of my adopted city, that a Pakistani-American I once knew, lost his import export business because his incoming crates were marked suspicious after 9-11, never again to be released. Could they still be sitting there is some forgotten lot?
Resurfacing Borders Creative Response #1
Freewrite:
I wonder I can't imagine the possibility that I might see boats, rafts, people coming in out of the horizon. Stumbling onto this edge between sand and water. What happens. Why does someone make that treacherous journey. Why does someone risk their life. I don't have answers. Except to those people who don't value human life. Refugee life. Migrant life. Brown skin. Black life. The reasons why people make these journeys. Not to colonize or dominate. But for personal reasons. To save their life. To change their life. Roaring. Constant. Ebbing. Rushing. Crashing. Flowing. Can I see people making their way from the horizon to where I stand. But it's happening. As I stand here. As we do this. People are risking their lives to save their lives. Right now. Always. Pelican. Flies. Across. Sky.
PW: waterborders1
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Borders Resurfacing: Cyn Creative Assignment 1
The following material is of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, CA, once the site of Chinatown (or nearby and essential to the life of Chinatown residents).
1) Video and Pics
San Lorenzo River from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
password "chinatown"
2) Freewrite: Dec 16, 2016
I sit, ass on concrete, wind chilling skin through clothes, the steady zoom and surge of cars at my back. The riverwalk. A man walks by pulling a bag on wheels, another with arms tucked into his T-shirt to shield against the cold, a bicyclist in high tech gear whooshes by smoothly. The river is brown and overgrown with scrub brush and fallen trees, the water fast-moving from yesterday’s rains. It is not beautiful here. This is no place for bougie hipsters to drink overpriced coffee in the sun. My body alert, unsure whether it is “safe” here where I am perched next to a trashcan chained to a metal pole, yellow heart shaped leaves decomposing in the mud, people with their belongings strapped to bicycles in trash bags. It is hard to imagine those lost bodies, those child bodies, George Ow and Young Lee fishing steelhead trout, catching little frogs and river creatures: the way play looked before capitalism took over. Wooden houses perched rickety on stakes above the water, so precarious, so precious, so easily swept away. In the memory of my imagination, it is always summer, not this damp chill to the bone, concrete seeping cold into my ass, this winter of unremembering.
3) Movements
Borders Resurfacing Santa Cruz from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
password "river"
1) Video and Pics
San Lorenzo River from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
password "chinatown"
I sit, ass on concrete, wind chilling skin through clothes, the steady zoom and surge of cars at my back. The riverwalk. A man walks by pulling a bag on wheels, another with arms tucked into his T-shirt to shield against the cold, a bicyclist in high tech gear whooshes by smoothly. The river is brown and overgrown with scrub brush and fallen trees, the water fast-moving from yesterday’s rains. It is not beautiful here. This is no place for bougie hipsters to drink overpriced coffee in the sun. My body alert, unsure whether it is “safe” here where I am perched next to a trashcan chained to a metal pole, yellow heart shaped leaves decomposing in the mud, people with their belongings strapped to bicycles in trash bags. It is hard to imagine those lost bodies, those child bodies, George Ow and Young Lee fishing steelhead trout, catching little frogs and river creatures: the way play looked before capitalism took over. Wooden houses perched rickety on stakes above the water, so precarious, so precious, so easily swept away. In the memory of my imagination, it is always summer, not this damp chill to the bone, concrete seeping cold into my ass, this winter of unremembering.
3) Movements
Borders Resurfacing Santa Cruz from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
password "river"
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Resurfacing Borders Assignment 1: Babli's Response
Here is a video of the Salzach river near my house in Salzburg, filmed a few days ago, as well as photos from meeting point of the rivers Saalach and Salzach a few kilometers ahead, which I have taken previously.
reconstructed freewrite:
3 Gestures/Movements, password: Salzach:
Borders Resurfacing Assignment 1 from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.
The Saalach in that area is the border between Austria and Germany, the Salzach in parts as well.
I am also added a link to pictures from the news in summer 2015 of the Saalach River and the border.
My video with gestures below is super simple. I am sitting, because sick.
Video: Password: Salzach
Photos by Sandra: Saalach Spitz, where the two rivers meet:
Saalach, border river, when the border had not re-surfaced yet.
reconstructed freewrite:
Salzach- a body of water - so close to my house, source of calm, source of beauty, and
and and peace. I exhale when I cross
the bridge from the station to get to my house a sign of having arrived. Most
places I go in this town I get to walk or bike along the river, cherishing the beauty even as I transition from
one office to another filing taxes.
About 15 minutes by bike up the river the Salzach meets another river: the Saalach. Saalach
Spitz where the two rivers meet- a beautiful oasis. Forgetting the border it signifies
politically/geographically- between Germany and Austria..
That blissful forgetting changed when the Saalach became a
site of hope and despair, when the
border was closed, as thousands of people fleeing from Syria wanted to pass.
3 Gestures/Movements, password: Salzach:
Borders Resurfacing Assignment 1 from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.
News photos:
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Borders Resurfacing Creative Assignment 1!
1) Film a 30 second video clip of a body of water near you, OR take a photo series of 5 images of a body of water near you.
2) Do a 5 minute free-write about that body of water. Don’t stop writing for the 5 minute free-write and be at the body of water.
3) Pull out 3-5 images, words or phrases that seem important to you from your free-write and create 3-5 movements/gestures related to those words. Keep it as simple or complicated - as you're feeling! If this feels relevant to you - think about who is affected in our worlds by everything going on as something to keep in mind for our free-write (undocumented, indigenous, black, LGBTQI, specific people whom we have mentioned... etc)
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Re-imagining citizenship: Not knowing of the taking
This is the latest re-making of "10 Little..." draft. I was trying to put the resilience piece in, but also wanted to reflect the current and urgent situation in Standing Rock. I feel moved to post this tomorrow and suggest donating to Standing Rock as an alternative or addition to folks' celebrating Thanksgiving.
Thanking for the Giving, Not Knowing of the Taking from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Questions: answer any that you are moved to, I know time is short!
1. Does it need any written context for folk other than where they can donate?
2. Are there any red flags?
3. What is your experience when watching it (what are you thinking/feeling)?
4. Is the use of the song effective in making folk think about the violence inherent in the song, or does it just seem like playing on nostalgia?
5. Are there any refinements I might be able to make before I post tomorrow?
6. Are there any refinements/changes you suggest for future versions?
7. Any other thoughts?
Thanking for the Giving, Not Knowing of the Taking from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Questions: answer any that you are moved to, I know time is short!
1. Does it need any written context for folk other than where they can donate?
2. Are there any red flags?
3. What is your experience when watching it (what are you thinking/feeling)?
4. Is the use of the song effective in making folk think about the violence inherent in the song, or does it just seem like playing on nostalgia?
5. Are there any refinements I might be able to make before I post tomorrow?
6. Are there any refinements/changes you suggest for future versions?
7. Any other thoughts?
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Borders Resurfacing repost
here two links. One I had posted before, the other is Meeena's:
Europa Europa (which Rani is part of and which will be shown in Mexico and Sandiego I believe next week!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMXZBPW-Q0
English lyrics here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dfaqRTF-uzU
Meena had posted atzlan underground. We did not cross the border, the border crossed us.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mQ4KUojVVI
Europa Europa (which Rani is part of and which will be shown in Mexico and Sandiego I believe next week!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMXZBPW-Q0
English lyrics here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dfaqRTF-uzU
Meena had posted atzlan underground. We did not cross the border, the border crossed us.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mQ4KUojVVI
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Borders Resurfacing: Link and Lost Chinatowns (Cynthia)
I. Like Meena, I'm choosing John Akomfreh's "Vertigo Sea" as my link:
https://vimeo.com/143478746
II. In addition, since we've been invited to bring in our own research into this larger project thinking about borders and migration, I thought it'd be useful to give you guys a glimpse of the Santa Cruz Chinatown research that I've been doing. Santa Cruz had 5 different Chinatowns from 1860-1955, which were destroyed or dismantled in various ways. Santa Cruz was the epicenter of anti-immigrant, anti-Chinese organizing in the region. The explicit connection to water is that many of the Chinatowns were built along the San Lorenzo River (where real estate was cheap due to issues with flooding), and the last Chinatown was destroyed through a a major flood in 1955.
What follows are a few excerpts of primary source materials that were part of the performance art sketch I created called "Lost Chinatowns":
Here are a couple of photographs of "Lost Chinatowns," which I performed at Santa Cruz City Hall as part of a site specific dance festival last month. In the work I build Chinatowns that are populated with historical photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, etc, as well as other materials such as gravel, rocks, and concrete, and then destroy them in succession.
https://vimeo.com/143478746
II. In addition, since we've been invited to bring in our own research into this larger project thinking about borders and migration, I thought it'd be useful to give you guys a glimpse of the Santa Cruz Chinatown research that I've been doing. Santa Cruz had 5 different Chinatowns from 1860-1955, which were destroyed or dismantled in various ways. Santa Cruz was the epicenter of anti-immigrant, anti-Chinese organizing in the region. The explicit connection to water is that many of the Chinatowns were built along the San Lorenzo River (where real estate was cheap due to issues with flooding), and the last Chinatown was destroyed through a a major flood in 1955.
What follows are a few excerpts of primary source materials that were part of the performance art sketch I created called "Lost Chinatowns":
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| Photos by George Lee of members of Santa Cruz's last Chinatown (Front Street), which was along the banks of the San Lorenzo River |
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| Photos of the 1955 flood which destroyed Birkenseers Chinatown |
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| Lost Chinatowns: Birkenseers Chinatown: 1905-1955 |
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| Lost Chinatowns: Front Street Chinatown |
Borders ReSurfacing: Creative Brainstorm (Meena)
1) Sandra posted a really great assignment as part of ReImagining Citizenship (Borders ReSurfacing's predecessor) and I don't think it ever got investigated. It's still really relevant and worthwhile. Wanted to bring this back into the mix. See below.
2) The link that Cynthia posted of John Akomfrah's work is still staying strong with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tbMrbvWwc
3) Then there is also this article that Sita Frederick sent me about a boat of Indians travelling from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, supposedly to try to enter the US as refugees...? Could't find great writing about this but so curious.
http://www.breitbart.com/
Reimagining Citizenship Assignment 2 (by Babli)
STEP 1: Do a 10-15 minute free-write reflecting on art making and cultural citizenship (the way you believe it can be effectively deployed as a concept), in times of a crisis such as the current "refugee crisis" in Europe- a crisis that is a matter of life and death for many. You can refer to different situation than the current one debated here.
STEP 2: Read your own free-write closely and try to establish the main emotion (stayibhava) tha it reveals.
STEP 3: Make a study based on that stayibhava, if you want you can use one of Cynthia's suggestions:
2) The link that Cynthia posted of John Akomfrah's work is still staying strong with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tbMrbvWwc
3) Then there is also this article that Sita Frederick sent me about a boat of Indians travelling from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, supposedly to try to enter the US as refugees...? Could't find great writing about this but so curious.
http://www.breitbart.com/
Reimagining Citizenship Assignment 2 (by Babli)
STEP 1: Do a 10-15 minute free-write reflecting on art making and cultural citizenship (the way you believe it can be effectively deployed as a concept), in times of a crisis such as the current "refugee crisis" in Europe- a crisis that is a matter of life and death for many. You can refer to different situation than the current one debated here.
STEP 2: Read your own free-write closely and try to establish the main emotion (stayibhava) tha it reveals.
STEP 3: Make a study based on that stayibhava, if you want you can use one of Cynthia's suggestions:
This assignment consists of three steps. Please DO NOT read step 2 and step 3 before having completed step 1.
Creative Assignment Possibilities (Cynthia) :
(1) Create a movement study exploring the idea of living perpetually on a border. Consider how your study might not be completely abstract but in dialogue with actual border stories.
(2) Create a study investigating two-facedness: both welcoming and repelling.
(3) Do a free-write about your own history of migration (this can include your family’s). Put this story into conversation with stories of current refugees. You may use text, movement, video, images, etc.
Borders ReSurfacing: Creative Brainstorm (Meena)
1) Sandra posted a really great assignment as part of ReImagining Citizenship (Borders ReSurfacing's predecessor) and I don't think it ever got investigated. It's still really relevant and worthwhile. Wanted to bring this back into the mix. See below.
2) The link that Cynthia posted of John Akomfrah's work is still staying strong with me:
3) Then there is also this article that Sita Frederick sent me about a boat of Indians travelling from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, supposedly to try to enter the US as refugees...? Could't find great writing about this but so curious.
Reimagining Citizenship Assignment 2 (by Babli)
This assignment consists of three steps. Please DO NOT read step 2 and step 3 before having completed step 1.
STEP 1: Do a 10-15 minute free-write reflecting on art making and cultural citizenship (the way you believe it can be effectively deployed as a concept), in times of a crisis such as the current "refugee crisis" in Europe- a crisis that is a matter of life and death for many. You can refer to different situation than the current one debated here.
STEP 2: Read your own free-write closely and try to establish the main emotion (stayibhava) tha it reveals.
STEP 3: Make a study based on that stayibhava, if you want you can use one of Cynthia's suggestions:
STEP 1: Do a 10-15 minute free-write reflecting on art making and cultural citizenship (the way you believe it can be effectively deployed as a concept), in times of a crisis such as the current "refugee crisis" in Europe- a crisis that is a matter of life and death for many. You can refer to different situation than the current one debated here.
STEP 2: Read your own free-write closely and try to establish the main emotion (stayibhava) tha it reveals.
STEP 3: Make a study based on that stayibhava, if you want you can use one of Cynthia's suggestions:
Creative Assignment Possibilities (Cynthia) :
(1) Create a movement study exploring the idea of living perpetually on a border. Consider how your study might not be completely abstract but in dialogue with actual border stories.
(2) Create a study investigating two-facedness: both welcoming and repelling.
(3) Do a free-write about your own history of migration (this can include your family’s). Put this story into conversation with stories of current refugees. You may use text, movement, video, images, etc.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Borders Resurfacing: Water and Borders
I was working on some writing for a river piece that I've been working on in my yoga for writing workshop and the person who read it felt it could be about refugees. Which is interesting because I already felt the river piece I'm working on could be connected to Borders Resurfacing. So, I offer this metaphorical story of a river instead of a specific personal or political one. The gist of the story is below along with some snippets of short movement explorations I made this summer, as well as some first draft writing in quotations.
I found the story in the book "An Ordinary Life Transformed." The book says it is a Sufi story, but I haven't found any other sources or versions yet. I'm still looking!
Below is my rendition of it. All of the video links below have the same password: river
Reaching river...
A joyful burbling river, traveled towards their destiny. Overcoming all the obstacles in their way with ease.
River traveling from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Until they are stopped by a desert and begin to doubt themselves, each rivulet wanting to take a different approach.
Desert desperation from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
"Oh that we could reverse our waters' flow and go back the glacier we once
were, or choose another path along our many pronged journey. But there’s no going back. Even if we wanted to return, the force of
children and grandchildren, so many generations, have already melted and follow us. Would that we weren’t leading them to
this certain end. But if we try
harder, we just loose ourselves more. I found the story in the book "An Ordinary Life Transformed." The book says it is a Sufi story, but I haven't found any other sources or versions yet. I'm still looking!
Below is my rendition of it. All of the video links below have the same password: river
Reaching river...
A joyful burbling river, traveled towards their destiny. Overcoming all the obstacles in their way with ease.
River traveling from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
Until they are stopped by a desert and begin to doubt themselves, each rivulet wanting to take a different approach.
Desert desperation from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
We hear the rushing of the water behind us, the quiet deadness of the sand in front of us. The vultures cawing in the distance as if telling us of the certain danger ahead.
We see nothing but grains of sand reaching into the empty
sky.
We taste the dry dust, coughing into our throats as we choke
and cough and splutter out our hopes, only to forget what they were.
We feel light headed, like we are changing, despite
ourselves.
How do we allow ourselves to change without loosing who we are? We have always been the traveler over boulders and stones, around great unknown bends, through different foliage. We have seen valleys and meadows, but never, until now have we faced this dry harsh sand that devours us whenever we try to pass. Is it truly the valley of death for us ?
We feel our very atoms wanting to separate in this parching heat…but we cling desperately to an uncertain existence. Because it is all we knew, because it is all we have known. But are we still making sense? Our hydrogen filled heads are vibrating so much that we are feeling dizzy, getting lighter until, popping off from from our Oxygen filled bodies, we are suddenly floating free, ethereal, is this really happening? Cooler as we rise, release the agony and burden that kept us down, we have no choice but to let go all that weighted us down. Gathering together again, as if we’ve never met before our heads and our hearts all mixed up among one another, we buzz in the mist of a cloud."
The river "surrenders" and gets evaporated by the sun and becomes a cloud:
Evaporation to cloud from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
The cloud travels over desert, and rains down into the ocean on the other side. The river becomes one with their larger selves, mixing and intermingling with the multitude of other rivers and drops from around the world.
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Also there is this writing from the desert's point of view:
"I am thirsty, but am afraid of the impending waves. They lap at my sands, cooling, wetting
my pebbly lips, but I retract and gasp rather than being able to enjoy. It is too risky for My sands are
delicate, dry, and easily washed away with wind and water. So, I cannot, will not, let
those waters in. Drops turn into
rivulets, rivulets turn into floods.
What if the waves over take me and I am submerged entirely…drowning.
I am surrounded by all sides by this never ending
threat. Ocean on one side, lapping
greedily at me, pulling my very body into it little by little until I begin to
loose my identity into the depth of those icy waters. On the other side, a river is pounding into me, trying to
cross me and reach the ocean. I
cannot let it divide my home, separating me from my loved one, when we have
been here since memory started.
Although my dry cracked earth is parched, I cannot risk
letting the flow of this unpredictable frothy element pull me under with
it. So I stay strong fortifying
myself against each incoming wet rush, and dredge up my bravest, hardest,
driest soldiers to drink it up before it can eat away at my precious rolling
hills. Instead, I’ll take the
wasteland of dry brittle tumbleweeds, for at least with those my sands can
catch a ride and then be released freely at a whim, rather than being swept up
beyond my control, sucked into whirlpools of certain destruction.
I yearn for a life where I do no not feel constantly
threatened by these wild and uncertain elements. If only I could be left in peace. Some may call my life boring, dry, but it is predictable, it
is practical, it is in tune with the one and only almighty sun. We don’t need the pesky water to mess
up our ways, we get enough moisture from the passing clouds, and I have secret
underground chambers where I have imprisoned vast amounts of water in a way
that I can control its wily ways and keep it in check to be used properly for
the good of all my creatures. This
is the law of my land and all my sands must obey and fall in line or they risk
their existence."
Monday, October 10, 2016
ReSurfacing Borders Round III - Meena's links
I started a new collaboration with an old friend Sita Frederick. Sita has been working on a performance work "Otro Lado" dealing with issues of borders, statelessness, migrant bodies, cages, etc. for the last few years. I'm designing media projections for her show in January 2017. She sent me this photo essay as part of getting the ball rolling in our creative collaboration:
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Also, I was in Hollywood this past weekend for a youth film festival and there was a musical and social justice pop-up happening on the street. Aztlan Underground, a musical group with indigenous roots in the Americas, was playing. Powerful. One song that stood out to me was a call and response with the refrain "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us."
Here is a youtube video on them performing the song (at a different time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
And lyrics to the song:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Also, I was in Hollywood this past weekend for a youth film festival and there was a musical and social justice pop-up happening on the street. Aztlan Underground, a musical group with indigenous roots in the Americas, was playing. Powerful. One song that stood out to me was a call and response with the refrain "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us."
Here is a youtube video on them performing the song (at a different time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
And lyrics to the song:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/
Resurfacing Borders Round III Babli
Dear all, here my visuals (one is a conversation with choreographic examples- there are several, but its possible to skip through)
This is a project in Berlin
Queens against Borders
https://vimeo.com/155130067
And the choreographer of above project is one of the discussants in this (longer but interesting) conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIho7v5aABU
This is a project in Berlin
Queens against Borders
https://vimeo.com/155130067
And the choreographer of above project is one of the discussants in this (longer but interesting) conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIho7v5aABU
Friday, October 7, 2016
Resurfacing Borders Preliminary Round 3: Cynthia
Here are two sets of links to engage for this round. Watch at least one from each project.
I. Vertigo Sea by John Akromfah
This 2015 work is a 3-screen video installation on the sea's relationship to migration, slavery, and colonialism.
Excerpt 1: https://vimeo.com/143478746 (3:35)
Excerpt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tbMrbvWwc (4:01)
Background Material:
Exhibition Guide: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/john-akomfrah-vertigo-sea-1/JohnAkomfrahVertigoSeaExhibitionGuide.pdf
II. Migrant Bodies
This was a multiyear project bringing together 16 artists (dancers, writers, visual artists) from Europe and Canada to address the theme of migrant bodies. Watch one of the videos below, or pick something else from the video documentation (those of you who know French will be able to understand more of the videos than me).
Lee Su-Feh á Vitry-sur-Seine (6:20): https://vimeo.com/123493398
Alessandro Sciarroni, "Turning" (23 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfp2SwY8Mc
More documentation available at:
http://www.migrantbodies.eu/results.html (video)
I. Vertigo Sea by John Akromfah
This 2015 work is a 3-screen video installation on the sea's relationship to migration, slavery, and colonialism.
Excerpt 1: https://vimeo.com/143478746 (3:35)
Excerpt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tbMrbvWwc (4:01)
Background Material:
Exhibition Guide: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/john-akomfrah-vertigo-sea-1/JohnAkomfrahVertigoSeaExhibitionGuide.pdf
II. Migrant Bodies
This was a multiyear project bringing together 16 artists (dancers, writers, visual artists) from Europe and Canada to address the theme of migrant bodies. Watch one of the videos below, or pick something else from the video documentation (those of you who know French will be able to understand more of the videos than me).
Lee Su-Feh á Vitry-sur-Seine (6:20): https://vimeo.com/123493398
Alessandro Sciarroni, "Turning" (23 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfp2SwY8Mc
More documentation available at:
http://www.migrantbodies.eu/results.html (video)
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Re-imagining Citizenship Revision "10 little"
I got inspired to add some context to my study about the "10 little..." because of Meena's feedback on my last assignment. I am grateful to Iyatunde who filmed it for me and helped as an outside eye.
10 little from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
password: citizenship
Questions:
1. What is your experience watching this?
2. Do you feel this revision addresses Meena's comment: "This study also makes light to me of the tension between the different uses of the word Indian in a colonial context, but is specific to Shyamala's positionality as a South Asian woman. Unless maybe there is a way to FLIP the original meaning of the song but smake it specific to people's identity and history"
Is there anything else that you imagine I could do to address the above comment?
3. Are there any other red flags or questions this brings up for you?
4. Do you have any ideas of what I should wear? Iyatunde thought of a t-shirt with #noDAPL #BLM (of course the blacklivesmatter is not addressed in this section of our piece just yet).
5. Any other thoughts?
10 little from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
password: citizenship
Questions:
1. What is your experience watching this?
2. Do you feel this revision addresses Meena's comment: "This study also makes light to me of the tension between the different uses of the word Indian in a colonial context, but is specific to Shyamala's positionality as a South Asian woman. Unless maybe there is a way to FLIP the original meaning of the song but smake it specific to people's identity and history"
Is there anything else that you imagine I could do to address the above comment?
3. Are there any other red flags or questions this brings up for you?
4. Do you have any ideas of what I should wear? Iyatunde thought of a t-shirt with #noDAPL #BLM (of course the blacklivesmatter is not addressed in this section of our piece just yet).
5. Any other thoughts?
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