Lecture with film clips (English) and discussion (English & German) at Schauburg Dortmund. Event begins at 16:00. For reservations and more information click here.
“In my presentation I will engage in a ›conversation‹ with the 2023 documentary film Între revoluții (Between Revolutions), directed by Vlad Petri and written together with Lavinia Braniște. The film offers a poetic reflection on the in/visibility of female queer desire that I understand as a form of archival poetry invested not in linear conceptions of liberation but in the queer temporality of the in-between. I am especially interested in the juxtaposition of the fictional letters and the documentary form. The audience is presented rare historical documentary footage from the late 1970s to early 1990s from Romania and Iran while the women and their same-sex desire is never visually depicted. In many ways the narrated story and the images we are presented with do not align: we never see the women but from their longing letters we are to glean that they were lovers. The film evokes queer desires and a form of East-East political entanglement that is often overlooked in histories of the Iranian diaspora. The ordinary drama of the separated lovers plays out eventually as a temporality between revolutions that acquires yet another contemporary dimension against the backdrop of the Woman Life Freedom uprising (Zan Zendegi Azadi) in Iran.” (Elahe Haschemi Yekani)
Screening in collaboration with Leipzig Art Residency (LIA), Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo (Cinema of the Peasants), A Sông and Nổ Cái Bùm Festival. More information here. The conversation will be about Quế’s film Healthy Water with Diseases and topics such as war trauma, colonial indochinese era, and landscapes.
This film program accompanies the exhibition Young Birds from Strange Mountains currently at Schwules Museum in Berlin. The title is borrowed from a poem by the Vietnamese gay-closeted poet Ngô Xuân Diệu (1916-1985), who was a correspondent member at Akademie der Künste in the GDR. The project features young queer arts from Southeast Asia and its diaspora with focus on community archives, spirituality/shamanism, pre-colonial knowledge, and activist movements. This program aims to spark discussion and reclaim knowledge that is often censored and erased by both nationalist and colonial politics.
Thao Ho will present parts of her research with a paper entitled “Letters from Berlin to Saigon to Los Angeles: Poetics and Politics of Return and Place-Making” at MELUS Conference 2025.
21. February 2025 12:00
Black, indigenous, and queer of color presence is often misrepresented or forgotten in historical documentation. In this archive workshop which accompanies the exhibition Young Birds from Strange Mountains, we ask ourselves how our stories appear, who narrates them, and craft our own contributions to intervene in hegemonic narratives. Our goal is to question the line between private and public archives, and formats of archiving through the lens of Southeast Asian (diasporic) queer archiving. In doing so, we hope to create a dialogue between archival materials, individuals and creativity.
More information here
On February 6th, 2025, at 15:00 GMT, Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani will take part in an online panel discussion exploring the impact of discrimination on research focus. This webinar is part of Springer Nature’s Sustainable Development Goals programme.
Sign up and join here: https://cassyni.com/events/QJmLergTtcMtzXRcSoxmQ1
Join us for the session „War memories and the Environment“ of TODO team member Thao Ho‘s seminar „American War in Vietnam: Protest and Memory Culture“ on 30.01.2025 with a guest lecture by Maithu Bùi:
Operation Remediation
Maithu Bùi’s work examines networks of violence at the intersection of collective history, science and technology. Operation Remediation interweaves storytelling with geohistory and science communication. Informed by their own history, their work examines never-ending wars and the diffusion of exploitative technologies. Their upcoming work Operation Remediation explores the exploitation of marginalized life forms in the disposal and detection of explosives and their impact on ecology.
The guest lecture will refer to the selected texts by Zani and Stoler.
Please register at hodacmit@hu-berlin.de.
Along with Maithu Bùi’s work, we will discuss „Bomb Ecologies“ by Leah Zani and „The Rot Remains“ by Ann Laura Stoler. PDF files will be send upon registration.
On January 28th 2025, from 16:00 to 18:00 (DOR 24, Raum 1.101), Fenja Akinde-Hummel and Elahe Haschemi Yekani will present a lecture on “Polyphony and the Postcolonial Novel” as part of the Ringvorlesung Literatur und Musik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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As part of the workshop The Elusive “Global”: Potential Histories of Art and Media, Ruhr-University Bochum, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen will talk about “Archive Interventions”.
Academic writers (e.g. Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe), poets (e.g. M. NourbeSe Philip, Layli Long Soldier) and visual artists (e.g. Sung Tieu, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński) intervene directly into the documents of the historical archive, with the aim to “sense it more”, “to really see”, to take “revenge”. They redact, cut out, “kill” the instruments of colonial oppression, text and image. I want to highlight the affective urgency of these interventions, not in opposition to but also not identical with an analytical interest. Archival violences here are felt ‘personally’, they demand a ‘personal’ response. These interventions, I believe, are less oriented towards institutional change, but rather take seriously the immediate effects of the material. What can be learned from the way artists and scholars inscribe themselves ‘personally’ into the text for post-colonial or de-colonial studies? I will present examples and discuss mostly visual strategies.
More information here https://das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/the-elusive-global-potential-histories-of-art-and-media/
On the 12 of December, 2024, Prof. Elahe Haschemi Yekani will deliver a talk titled “Ignatius Sancho’s Familiar Digressions” as part of the workshop Black Diasporic Knowledges before 1800: Writing Subjects, Intersectional Interventions, hosted by the University of Bayreuth (online).
Ein Artikel von Elahe Haschemi Yekani in der Geschichte der Gegenwart beleuchtet die Kontinuität rassistischer Gewalt, betont die Notwendigkeit, Opferperspektiven anzuerkennen, und untersucht die Rolle von Kunst als wichtiges Medium für Erinnerung, Aufklärung und Protest.
Link zum Artikel : https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/kunst-als-gegenarchiv-der-dokumentarfilm-18-minuten-zivilcourage/
