[-empyre-] Week 4 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

Tue Apr 24 16:55:06 AEST 2018

Thanks for the invite to share here Dale. My very DIY documentary project
is also about people and place and that inextricable relationship. Although
I’m not sure what constitutes a "new media documentary practice",
*Kwanxwala-Thunder
*is about transporting the experience of a particular geography, history,
community, and people. Namely, Alert Bay as part of traditional
Kwakwaka'wakw territory on Canada’s Northwest coast and the island’s
predominantly Indigenous, Kwakwaka'wakw soccer community, is explored
through an experimental, impressionistic, essayist, cinema direct lens and
ultimately a single-channel cinematic experience. There are genuine
considerations for the ethics of documentary practices, methodologies and
contexts of creation, formal treatments of images which comment on
histories of representations and connect to the more general theme of the
integration and indigenization of soccer into Kwakwaka'wakw contemporary
culture in Alert Bay.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Dale Hudson <dmh2018 at nyu.edu> wrote:

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> Thanks, Steve, Marianna, Daniel, Max, Philip, Adam, and Rachel, for
> participating in last week’s discussion, which I hope will continue and
> intersect with this week’s discussion.
>
> This week’s guests are Armando Minjarez Monarrez (MX), Ellie Beaudry (US),
> Dawn Dawson-House (US), Sarah Shamash (BR/CA), Liz Miller (US/CA), and Erin
> McElroy (US). All have participated in the “Invisible Geographies”
> exhibition for the twentieth edition of FLEFF.
>
> Armando Minjarez Monarrez’s _Ulysses: New Hope in the Heartland
> (AlieNation)_ documents the economic recovery of a village in so-called
> heartland of the United States due
>
> Ellie Beaudry’s _Past, Present, Future Bund_ makes visible and visceral
> the waxing and waning of air pollution in Shanghai. By dividing the screen
> into three fields, she shows how some residents and tourists use financial
> resources to help them adapt to differing air qualities, whereas others
> must simply carry on.
>
> Dawn Dawson-House (US) is senior project leader for the South Carolina
> African American Heritage Commission’s online travel guide _The Green Book
> of South Carolina_, which recovers African American histories that are at
> risk of being lost and evokes the terror faced by African Americans who
> wanted or needed to travel on U.S. roadways in past decades.
>
> Sarah Shamash’s _Kwanxwala-Thunder_ recovers the history of the
> Kwakwaka’wakw and stitches it together with contemporary stories of
> football and potlach in Canada.
>
> Liz Miller’s _The Shore Line_ allows users to navigate the effects of
> climate change on coastal communities around the globe. Users gain insights
> into ways that local populations who are most vulnerable confront global
> problems.
>
> Erin McElroy (US) cofounded the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, which
> attempts to combat the dispossession of communities to gentrification
> projects in the Silicon Valley by visualizing data, aggregating narratives,
> and mobilizing resistance to eviction-friendly platforms like Airbnb.
>
> I look forward to hearing more from them about these projects.
>
> Best,
> Dale
>
>
> Bios:
>
> Armando Minjarez (MX) is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist, designer, and
> community organizer. His practice is guided by themes of displacement,
> collaboration, and empowerment to open up spaces for the development of
> social change strategy and creative expression. He is cofounder of The Seed
> House~La Casa de la Semilla, founder of the art collective ICT ARMY of
> Artists, and co-founder of the North End Urban Arts Festival. Minjarez has
> traveled, conducted research, and facilitated workshops and trainings on
> racism, displacement, migration and creative expression in Canada, Europe,
> México, and the United States. His work has been featured on the _New York
> Times_, _Buzzfeed_, _C Magazine_, and published in peer-reviewed scientific
> journals.
>
> Ellie Beaudry (US) is an undergraduate student at Cornell University
> (United States), where she studies environmental engineering and fine arts.
> Born in Shanghai (China) but raised in New Jersey (United States),
> Beaudry’s videos draw upon her experience when she returned to Shanghai in
> high school. She seeks to address environmental issues through art and
> engineering.
>
> Dawn Dawson-House (US) is an ex-officio member of the Commission from the
> South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and a senior
> project leader for the Green Book of South Carolina. The South Carolina
> African American Heritage Commission identifies and promotes the
> preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the
> African American experience in South Carolina. It also assists and enhances
> the efforts of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
>
> Sarah Shamash (BR/CA) is a Vancouver-based media artist and Ph.D.
> candidate in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at the University of
> British Columbia (Canada). Her experimental projects typically explore
> identities and geographies as personal, political, feminine, and dynamic,
> while critiquing and subverting fixed, colonial, and hegemonic demarcations
> of the body, territory, and space. She has exhibited in art venues and film
> festivals internationally. She currently teaches film theory and programs
> films for the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. Her work as an
> artist, researcher, educator, and programmer can be understood as
> interconnected and whole; they all revolve around a passion for cinema and
> social justice.
>
> Liz Miller (CA/US) is an independent documentary-maker, trans-media
> artist, and professor at Concordia University in Montréal, who lived in
> Central and South America for more than six years. She is committed to
> producing work that connects individuals across cultures. Over fifteen
> years of community media experience and a background in political
> economics, electronic media art, and Latin American studies fuel her
> exploration of new media as art and as an educational tool for community
> collaborations.
>
> Erin McElroy cofounded the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project in 2013, and
> continues to co-lead the project today with a team of volunteer activists,
> data scientists, cartographers, oral historians, programmers, and more. She
> is also a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at University of
> California Santa Cruz, working on a project on techno-utopics, racialized
> dispossession, and postsocialist analytics in the Bay Area and in Romania.
> Some of her writing on the project can be found at
> https://ucsc.academia.edu/ErinMcELroy.
>
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