13 Nov 2024 Urgent Pedagogies: wóyde Cineforum
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IASPIS announces the VIIth session of wóyde Cineforum: “Why Matter Matters”, sharing a selection of films to watch and follow up in an online seminar that brings together film makers and cineforum founders.
Urgent Pedagogies is for the first time hosting wóyde Cineforum and a post-vision conversation of the VIIth session entiteled Why Matter Matters. Enjoy the film selection before 13th November and join the online event in which two directors and you are invited to share thoughts and sensations arising from the video material. Participants are also encouraged to question ideas and methodologies and propose new scenarios based on the suggested images (please see links to the films and online event below).
During this event we will ask: is it possible to look at matter as an ally in building our life? We will consider the knowledge embedded in matter to put in crisis the modern paradigm that considers it as an inert stock of resources available at human disposal, a passive material, a subjugated symbol of unjust power structures, or even as a weaponized tool.
The online event is hosted by st(r)ay (Silvia Susanna, Alice Pontiggia and Steffie De Gaetano) and invites directors Susan Schuppli and Pelin Tan. Introduction by Magnus Ericsson.
wóyde Cineforum is an experimental research tool working through the formula film projection + collective discussion. It is also both the name of the (mainly) digital place where the practice is activated, as well as a mutual learning practice for deepening the knowledge that can stem from collective confrontation in a safe space.
DAAS Cineforum discussion, 2022 at the Difficult Heritage Summer School, Borgo Rizza, Sicily. Photo by Steffie De Gaetano
Part 1: Online screening
Programme (see below) is available from 18 October to 13 November
Part 2: Online discussion (Zoom link)
Welcome by Magnus Ericson
Introduction by Silvia Susanna, Alice Pontiggia and Steffie De Gaetano
Open conversation triggered from reflections and questions with Susan Schuppli and Pelin Tan
Why Matter Matters
Keywords: Materiality, Embedded Knowledge, Value Chain, Extractivism, Resources, Sustainability, Aesthetic Choices, Hidden Narratives, Body as Medium
To break the modern paradigm of matter as an inert stock of resources available at human disposal, shaped from matter to material, or as a subjugated symbol of unjust power structures, or even as a weaponized tool, we are proposing short documentary and film materials that aim at disclosing hidden narratives or proposing new points of view over the “perceivable world”. Is it possible to look at matter as an ally in building our life? We encourage enhancing your sensitivity as bodily matter when viewing the program.
Il Capo
Yuri Ancarani, 2010, 2’53’’ (excerpt)
How beautiful a crumbling desire can be? How many hidden faces are there behind the construction industry chain? What are these landscapes’ meanings? How disturbing can it be for our belly to watch this video?
View film here https://www.nowness.com/playlist/6633/videos-i-like
Cu-Porn
Colectivo Cenex, 2020, 10’41’’
How sexy can a mine be? How does copper extraction affect Chilean sexual behavior? A lovely rhyming description of cruel realities.
View the film here: https://luciaegana.net/videos/cuporn/
La Via Della Pomice
Archivio Luce Cinecittà, 1961, 0’46’’ [ITA, NO SUBS]
Celebration of extractivism and industrialization of natural stone introduced by patriarchal irony. All in 46 seconds!
View the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifBR-0xeFcM
How is Made: Cement
How is Made/Wondastic Tech, unknown/2024, 5’/8’25’’
Please inform yourself on the cement production cycle through a beautifully filmed documentary that probably comes from the 90s, or through a way more futuristically depicted history and production flux of cement with shining views of giant factories.
View the films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpc9d7ESw38&t=12s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-pm5GTdwI&t=87s
Eroded Pyramid
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2018, 8’50’’
Experimental video of a Mexican collective that is working on giving new meaning to filmic practice. The video’s description is: The pyramid used to be a mountain. * Please take care, strong flashing lights.
View the film: https://vimeo.com/285734959
Can the Sun Lie?
Susan Schuppli, 2014, 12’51’’
Manipulation of evidence and discrimination of knowledge at international court level. What the sun is telling us about environmental changes?
View the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDzesi2VLc
Material Witness
Susan Schuppli, 2015, 11’22’’ (excerpt)
Cit from the author: “The documentary begins with a rumination asking: What does it mean to stand in the place of death knowing that violent things happened in that very location but seeing apparently nothing? Over the course of the video, the landscape itself becomes a mnemonic device for revealing traces of these histories.”
View the film: https://vimeo.com/93826545
Weaponizing Water
Susan Schuppli, 2023, 4’52’’ (excerpt)
Forensic reconstruction of the use of water by armed forces as a weapon against protestors in 2016.
View the film: https://vimeo.com/777311456
Dimeşin / Fenomenolojiyên Dîcleyê I – Walking / Tigris Phenomenologies
Pelin Tan, 2023, 5’30’’
An assemblage of moving images around and through landscapes of Tigris river of Hasankeyf with elements of Ezidi cosmologies. A phenomenology of experimenting with female landscaping of non-extractivism and its future. The video sceneries were recorded with a cell phone camera between 2021 and 2023 in Çinerîya Ezidi village (Batman, Turkey), where most of the inhabitants left in the 1980s for Germany as migrant workers. The community occasionally lives in both places.
View the film: https://vimeo.com/1020550148/e151901201
is a neologism expressing the ongoing act of growing together through desires and struggles, walking along paths gone astray and converging in wandering places. We met by chance during DAAS postmaster and by intuit began working together. Because of love and admiration we continue to support each other’s work, and collaborate when possible. st(r)ay is not a collective, nor wishes to be; it is not a brand, neither a model. It is a mutating relation on a journey in which we – Silvia, Alice and Steffie – are the minimum affective core.
is an architect and art-based researcher based in Rome, Italy. Her practice is situated at the intersection of architecture and experimental filmmaking and her interests are in critical oriented practices, community-driven projects, design research and storytelling. Currently she is exploring the relationship between matter, cultural production, value and memory.
lives as an artisan, architect and artist in Valtellina, Italy. After obtaining a Master Degree in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano and 同济大学 Tongji University, she worked in Mexico and Italy. Her expanded practice is interested in the processes of constitution of cosmologies as eco-techno-symbolic relationships of human and land. She investigates them through writing, metal craft, video, collective laboratories and sound.
is a Dutch-Italian interdisciplinary researcher currently based in Belgium. Her artistic research practice focuses on bridging environmental degradation to colonial and modern legacies through the traces left by material and matter flows, and beyond-human indices. She currently is a doctoral researcher at UHasselt, investigating geologic architectures and landscapes of extraction.
is a researcher and artist based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change. Current work is focused on learning from ice and the politics of cold. Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US. She has published widely within the context of media and politics and is author of the book, Material Witness published by MIT Press in 2020. Schuppli is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London where she is also an affiliate artist-researcher and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture.
is a sociologist/art historian/film director based in Mardin and is currently a Professor in the Fine Arts Faculty of Batman University, Turkey. She is the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Art and Activism and a Fellow of Bard College of the Human Rights Program and Center for Curatorial Studies, NY, 2019-2020. Pelin Tan is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston; and a researcher on Space and Anthropocene at the Architecture Faculty, University of Thessaly, Volos (2021-2026). She is a lead author of the Urban Society report edited by Saskia Sassen & Edgar Pieterse (Cambridge Univ.Press, 2018). Along with Anton Vidokle, Tan got the Sharjah Film Platform grant for their current short film “Gılgamesh: Who Saw the Deep” (2022). Together with Magnus Ericson, she is the curator of Urgent Pedagogies.
is a Stockholm-based curator and educator working across design, architecture, urbanism, and art. He is currently Head of IASPIS Applied Arts, leading the program related to design, crafts, architecture, and spatial and urban practice. From 2014 to 2018 he developed and led a number of postgraduate courses on socially engaged critical practice at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Between 2009 and 2014, he was a Senior Advisor/Curator for the design-related program at Arkdes, Sweden’s National Center for Architecture and Design, in Stockholm. From 2007 to 2009 he was assigned as a Project Manager at IASPIS to pursue and develop activities within the fields of design, crafts, and architecture. Together with Pelin Tan, he is the curator of Urgent Pedagogies.
