Reading Group: Feminist Theories and Practices
Guests: Phoebe Giannisi and Marios Chatziprokopiou
Chimera, Local Tropics, The Place of Scraps: Polyphonic readings for the species, gender, race and sexuality.
Thursday April 1st 2021, Time: 15.00-18.00 Teams
The seminar embarks on the key question by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the subaltern speak?" (1988) to focus on the practices of ethnography, poetry, and performativity, further raising issues of postcolonial, feminist and queer theories. The participants in the seminar read live selected texts from the books Chimera (Χίμαιρα) and Local Tropics (Τοπικοί Τροπικοί) by Phoebe Giannisi and Marios Hadjiprokopiou, respectively. These readings, and their live, performative versions, are then put in a dialogue with the work of the indigenous, Canadian, poet Jordan Abel, 'The Place of Scraps'. The connecting thread: the shifting of dominant ethnographic discourse on gender, race, and sexuality and how these (re)inscribe in the field of literature - written and/or vocalized.
The arguments of the three poet(es)s' are inscribed in a genealogy of relations between ethnography and art with a particular emphasis on language (from the work of Michel Leiris to that of Michael Taussig) and discussed in conversation with the critical essays on ethics and politics of performativity and ethnography by David Conquergood.
The online lab/seminar will take plaase via Teams platform. For participation please email us at fpmedialab@uth.gr to receive the link.
Student Conference Documenting
Friday February 26th 2021 11:00 Teams
The conference is organized in the framework of the elective course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Student organizing committee:
- Fountos Yorgos
- Mountogiannakis Ionas
- Pnevmatikou Evangelia
Click for the program and poster.
Blog with abstracts of essays written for the course ‘South: Space and non-hegemonic paradeigms of knowledge
Luce de Lire in residence - Workshop
Digital Enclosure and it's Revolutionary Other
our residency is organised as a long-distance liability-residency.
Wednesday 10 February 2021 / Event time: 19.00
Following 3 successful and thought-provoking sessions, we would like to invite you to the closure of the workshop of the philosopher Luce de Lire and to the farewell of comrade Josephine, with the text CyberSpace and the Darker side of the West.
In this workshop, we first focus on classical original accumulation and its conjoined manifestations in Europe and its colonies. We then look at its most current formation – the enclosure of the internet – and a possible queer enclosure, namely the industrialization of the libidinal economy in a pink totaliterian picture.
To register for the workshop or state your interest in auditing please email us on fpmedialab@gmail.com.
For more information on the work of the Centre and our projects and events you can visit our website http://www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth.gr