Symposium: Audio-visual Media and the Global Dream Space
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Day One Event at RHB Cinema, Goldsmiths: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/62677/symposium-audio-visual-media-and-the-global-dream-space
From the mid-twentieth century, audio-visual media constituted a key site for creating, circulating and debating ideas about an emerging and increasingly interconnected world space. Liberation movements, civil society actors and international organisations such as the United Nations appealed to contested signifiers such as “peace” and “freedom” as they pursued contradictory modernising agendas, ranging from anticolonial worldmaking to liberal-capitalist internationalism and imperial domination. Drawing on and expanding Anna Tsing’s concept, this symposium seeks to chart the audio-visual production and mediation of the “global dream space” that emerged from this historical process.
In the present day, the sizeable archive of this contested “global dream space” is little-known and institutionally and geographically dispersed, but it is also attracting increasing interest in the academic, archival and creative communities. In the face of planetary permacrisis and a collective urgency to imagine new forms of worldmaking, this event seeks to take stock of and analyse the audio-visual project of this global space from multiple perspectives. Through a variety of formats (papers, workshops and screening sessions), participants will place a particular emphasis on presenting diverse audio-visual materials including films, videos, filmstrips, photographs, and television and radio programmes.
The symposium is organised by David Wood (University College London/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and Miguel Errazu (Goldsmiths, University of London) with the support of the UK Research & Innovation “Horizon Europe Guarantee” programme (EP/Z001919/1 and EP/Y015088/1), Centre for Visual Anthropology of Goldsmiths, University of London and SELCS-CMII/Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.
13:00h - 14:30h Session 5: Spaces and Ecologies: from Utopia to Revolution (panel)
And the Art Work Dissolves: John McHale and the Dissolution of Art in a Globalist Utopia
Alex Bickley Trott (Oxford Brookes University)
Screening the SAAL Housing Process at the First UN Habitat Conference (1976): Local Images, Institutional Framings, Global Spaces
Sofia Sampaio (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
Tricontinental Ecologies: Anti-Imperialist Media in the Struggle for a Sovereign Social Metabolism
Alejandro Pedregal (Aalto University, Finland)
14:30h - 14:45h — Break
14:45h - 15:45h — Session 6: Religion and the Global Dream Space (panel)
Catholic Transnationalism on the Airwaves: Extracts from the Radio Series of SERPAL (Radiophonic Service for Latin America)
Anna Cant (LSE)
AFSC Documentary Shorts: How Did Quaker Humanitarianism Look, circa 1948?
Karl Schoonover (University of Warwick)
15:45h - 16:45h — Coffee & Tea Break
16:45h - 17:45h — Session 7: Restitution as a Transnational Collaborative Practice (workshop)
With: Samar Abdelrahman (University of Liverpool), Erica Carter (KCL), Dan Hodgkinson (Oxford Department of International Development), Eiman Hussein (KCL), Nikolaus Perneczky (QMUL)
17:45h - 18:00h — Break
18:00h - 20:00h — Session 8: How to Screen the Remains? (screening session)
Moctezuma’s Revenge: Notes for a Creative-Critical Screening Project on UNESCO and Mexican Cultural Diplomacy in the 1950s
David Wood (UCL/UNAM) and Rodrigo Carrillo Tripp (Astilla Teatro, Mexico City)
The Uncle of Bolivia: Friction, Loss and Celebration of the Miners’ Film Workshop
Miguel Errazu (Goldsmiths, University of London/Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola)
20:00h - 20:45h — Wine reception
Contact name: Matthew Barrington
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