Talk

Trinh T. Minh-ha "At Home, a Stranger…"

Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie
Mar 22 2017
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, Fanny Hensel Hall
Vienna 1030
Phone: +43 1 711554201
17:00
free
until 20:00
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
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Resonance, Resistance and The Creative
Everyday Resonance sustains and sets into motion all creative processes. Permanent unsettlement within and between cultures is here coupled with the instability of the word, whose old and new meanings continue to graft onto each other, engaged in a mutually transformative process that displaces rather than simply denies the traces of previous grafting. You are at home, a stranger…. The struggle of positionalities may be said to depend on the accurate tuning of one’s many selves.

Lecture by: Trinh T. Minh-ha Professor for Rhetoric and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, filmmaker, (film-)theorist, writer and composer

Trinh T. Minh-Ha's works are part of ground-breaking decolonial, postcolonial and feminist approaches between film, literature, art and theory. Her works emphasize the interconnection and deconstruction, continuation and impact and the breakpoints of current political, social and scientific practices and ways of thinking of Postcolonial Theory.

Moderation: Doris Posch
Studies of Film and Media Sciences and Romance Studies in Paris, Vienna, Montreal and Brussels. Currently PhD student of Film and Media Sciences at the Film Academy Vienna and DOC-scholar of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 2015–2016 Visiting Scholar at the New York University (USA) and Concordia University (Canada) with focus on postcolonial film cultures. Curator for transnational cinema (Brasilia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Madagascar, Tanzania et al).

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