Event overview
A one day symposium on film, art and anthropology.
Event details:
10.00 Q2P, film directed by Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 mins.
A film about urban space and social inequalities in Mumbai viewed through the lens of Indian toilets and their absence. The toilet acts as a guide to issues of gender, caste, class and urban development in a metropolis renowned for its glamour, modernity and poverty.
11.30 Helen Scalway – Ornament, Memory and the Cosmopolitan City: where art meets ethnography
Artist, Helen Scalway, reflects on what a focus on ornament might bring to our understanding of London as a cosmopolitan city. Moving in and out of a sari shop, and tracing the fusion of pattern and ornament that stretches across the cosmopolitan city through textiles, architecture and other material forms, she reflects on issues of time, memory, diasporic identity and place making.
1.00 Lunch Break - collective, bring your own and share lunch!
2.00 Insitu, film directed by Antoine Viviani, 2011, 89 mins.
Winner of Best City Film Award, 2012, Open City Docs Festival, London)
A poetic and experimental film about urban space in European cities. Through tracing artistic eruptions and unanticipated everyday practices, it explores the multi-sensory nature of urban experience and the unexpected ways people engage with urban space and give it life.
4.00 Therese Henningsen – It’s A Thinking-Thing and a Feeling-Thing
Goldsmiths Anthropology graduate, Therese Henningsen, has conducted fieldwork with residents of a soon-to-be demolished housing estate in Haggerston, East London. She is interested in how ideas of home, security and community are expressed and perceived through the way people react to the places in which they live. Drawing on image, voice and text, Therese will talk about her work on the estate, and discuss different ways in which we might approach doing ethnography in London.
ALL WELCOME!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2012 | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
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