event
15
feb '23
Combing the Desert
Combing the Desert
We continue scouting the peripheries of Ecological Imaginaries with a series of seminars conducted by the filmmaker and Critical Studies research fellow Olya Korsun. This time we will attempt to defy ‘the regimes of emptiness’ imposed on deserts and their inhabitants by 'industrialized subjectivities and exploitative authorities searching for and in need of so-called "empty" places to be "filled" through occupation, extraction, mining, production, and accumulation.’ (Samia Henni)
We will diligently comb the not-so-empty deserts to stumble upon the entanglements of stories, remnants, apparitions and life forms. Guided by the lines of Libyan writer and poet of desert Ibrāhīm al-Kōnī we will look at the political ecology of contemporary deserts and their imaginaries. Through the films of Patricio Guzmán, Cynthia Madansky and Joshua Bonnetta we will reflect on deserts as the spaces where one encounters death, bewilderment and transformation. In deserts, stories are told on the blinding background of bleach-white sand or in the complete darkness of the desert night; vision thus loses its superiority among other senses and imagination thrives.
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