Thursday, 30 March 2023, 18:30
Media Encounters | Curated by Merv Espina
Screening & Discussion | Screening & discussion on the legacy of the 80s-90s Goethe-Institut film & video workshops
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, New Delhi
- Language English
Previous collaborators included Harun Farocki, Werner Nekes and Rotraut Pape from Germany; Narcisa Hirsch and Claudio Caldini from Argentina; Lav Diaz and Roxlee from the Philippines; Pimpaka Towira and Manit Sriwanichpoom from Thailand; Danny Yung and Comyn Mo from Hong Kong; and in the Indian context, Ein Lall, Amar Kanwar, and the trio of Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta before they were Raqs Media Collective. Unfortunately, a majority of these works have been lost, or are rare, or inaccessible.
This screening programme is part of Media Encounters, an ongoing research project that has resulted in the recovery of some of these works, while also challenging the assumption of a one-way influence of these encounters between local artists and their German collaborators.
Merv Espina is an artist and researcher whose practice spelunks through the cavities of systemic biases and historical lapses in media, knowledge and cultural production, and investigates the networks and organisms that have grown through them. Since 2022, his ongoing research project Media Encounters is supported by the documenta Institut with the documenta archiv and the Goethe-Institut headquarters in Munich. He is currently artist-in-residence at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, January-April 2023.
Location
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi
110001
India
Siddhartha Hall
Location
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi
110001
India
Siddhartha Hall