Speaker:
Karen Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator:
Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Time: 4:45 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: CBC, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU
Postcolonial feminists have critiqued reparative impulses to “animate” the traces of those trapped in colonial archives using ventriloquizing strategies that seek to give voice or life to those rendered voiceless and fixed by colonial archiving strategies. In this presentation, an excerpt from my forthcoming book Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminism, and the Art of War, I introduce the term “(inter)(in)animation,” a relational use of “animation” operating along a variable scale, to consider non-ventriloquizing animating options available to artists and scholars seeking to grapple with this weaponized place of fabrication and storage. The talk will foreground issues arising at the intersection of movement, “war” (what counts as war?), and the archive within the context of Onyeka Igwe’s 2023 installation A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver).
Karen Redrobe is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis, and editor of Animating Film Theory. She has co-edited three volumes, Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma, On Writing With Photography, with Liliane Weissberg, and Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures with Jeff Scheible, which won SCMS’s Best Edited Collection Award. In addition to completing Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminism, and the Art of War, she is collaborating with Kartik Nair on a co-edited volume entitled, Required Readings: Film Scholars on Freedom and Discipline in the Classroom.
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