event
09
nov '22
Time observing, hopping and freezing
Time observing, hopping and freezing
This year, Critical Studies research fellow Olya Korsun organises a series of seminars to collectively map out and question the contours and layers of ecological imaginaries through the study of eco-critical theory and experimental/queer/world cinema.
In the first meeting, we will attempt to untangle the multiple temporalities of ecological imaginaries – ‘coexisting, juxtaposed, and in global harmony’*. The seminar will include reading together on the temporality of landscape from Tim Ingold and Dipesh Charkabarty and watching bits from both documentary and fiction about time-travellers. Be prepared for the encounters with meteorites, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, geological time and sound anomalies echoing from the deep past.
No preparation is required.
* Jesús Carrillo, Francisco Godoy Vega
No preparation is required.
* Jesús Carrillo, Francisco Godoy Vega
Olya Korsun works across film, text and research. Her practice is driven by the constant inquiry into the ways knowledge and imaginaries of the natural world and its phenomena are built, distributed and dismantled. Her writings, performative lectures, visual essays, always unapologetically personal and poetic, invite the viewers to defamiliarize themselves with what is considered ‘known’ and experience it outside of the hegemonic orthodoxies. The varied subjects of her investigations intertwine into a polyphonic universe, where speculative geography is narrated through the noses and familial memories, the tropes of magic realism are applied to address the ecological crisis, and mutant herbariums are made to reflect on the displacement and border violence.
research group
Critical Inquiry
Critical Inquiry
