Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global
Read about the event on Asian Video Cultures website here.
Agenda
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013 at 6pm (Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center)
Screening and Q&A with director Paromita Vohra
Partners in Crime (2011) – http://www.parodevi.com/?p=323
*followed by reception
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 (Englander Studio, Granoff Center)
8:30-9am *Breakfast
9am Welcome – Bhaskar Sarkar
Session I: Infra-structures
9:15 Jenny Chio, “Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China”
10:15 Chia-chi Wu, “Wei dianying and Xiao quexing— Technologies of ‘Small’ and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices”
Coffee Break
11:30 Patricia Zimmerman, “EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of Indonesia’s New Social Media”
Lunch 12:30-1:30pm (*for participants)
Session II: Circulation
1:30 Feng-Mei Heberer, “An Archive of Bad Feelings, a Site of Public Address – Experimental Video Works from Asian Germany”
2:30 Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh, “MircoSD-ing ‘Mewati Videos’: Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture”
Coffee Break
3:45 Michelle Cho, “Cosmopolitics and Kpop Video Culture”
4:45-6:15pm Screening and Discussion with Paromita Vohra
Q2P (2006, 53 min) – http://www.parodevi.com/?p=254
7pm Dinner
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 (Englander Studio, Granoff Center)
8:30-9am Breakfast
Session III: Intimacies
9am Niranjan Sivakumar, “Minorigate: The Perils and Potentials of Global Cultural Circulation”
10am Conerly Casey, “Bollywood Banned, and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics of Love and Pornography in Northern Nigeria”
Coffee Break
11:15am Nishant Shah, “In Access: Approaches to Understand Digital and Online Video in Contemporary Asia”
Lunch 12:15-1pm (*for participants)
Session IV: Occupation
1pm Mariam B. Lam, “Archival Trauma, Critical Regionalism and Southeast Asian Video Arts”
2pm Nathaniel Smith, “Vigilante Video: Japan’s New Netizens and the Wrongs of the Right”
Coffee Break
3:15pm Celina Hung, “Documenting ‘Immigrant Brides’: the Stakes of Multiculturalism in the Taiwanese Media”
4:30 Closing Roundtable: “In the Penumbra of the Global”
7pm Dinner
