Flickering Landscapes Conference - The Image of Migration: Landscapes and People
March 28-30, 2019
The Gallery at Center for Emerging Media: 500 Bentley St, Orlando, FL 32801
The public is invited to attend this conference and all events associated with it free of charge. The conference brings together scholars and filmmakers to address how moving images depict the relationship between human migration and place. Our definition of migration encompasses any movement of peoples, including migration within nations or across national boundaries. The variety of the spaces migrants move across demands that we define place in the broadest terms possible: land, and sea, and the built environment. For more details visit our website: flickeringlandsc.cah.ucf.edu/. Registration is free and is requested to help us plan for seating and refreshments.
Shifting Terrain: Images of Migration and Detention Gallery Opening
The Gallery at Center for Emerging Media: 500 Bentley St, Orlando, FL 32801
Thursday, March 28, 6:30-7:30 pm
Shifting Terrain: Images of Migration and Detention, an art exhibition curated by Keri Watson (University of Central Florida), brings together work by contemporary artists who address the contemporary global refugee experience. PhoneHome, curated by Dorita Hannah, Joanne Kinniburgh, and Shauna Janssen, features I-Phone videos made by artists and correspondents from Iran, Kurdistan, Russia, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK that are viewed through miniature refugee cabins. The intermedial installation critiques architecture’s complicity in detaining “alien” bodies while recognizing the smartphone’s role in resisting detention. Vukasin Nedeljkovic’s haunting photographs were taken while he awaited asylum in a Direct Provision Centre in Ireland from April 2007 to November 2009. Part of the Asylum Archive, a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and interactive documentary project, his work critically engages with issues of exile, displacement, trauma, and memory. Jave Yoshimoto’s delicate and intricate laser cut reliefs, which work to counteract and deconstruct over-mediatized and sensationalized images of refugees, were created from images he made while volunteering on Lesvos Island in December of 2016. Hiwa K’s film Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue), which was created for documenta 14 Athens (2017), is a performative recreation of a journey taken by the artist when he fled Iraqi Kurdistan and reached Europe by foot in the 1990s. A symbolically-loaded, visual and aural “call-and-response,” the film complicates notions of history, memory, language, and clashing cultures.
PRESENTED BY:
The Center for Humanities and Digital Research, The Nicholson School of Communications and Media, and the Texts and Technology Doctoral Program at the University of Central Florida
SPONSORED BY:
The Office of Research, The College of Graduate Studies, CREATE (Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology and Entertainment), The Department of English, The Department of History, The College of Arts and Humanities, FIEA (Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy), The Center for Humanities and Digital Research, The Nicholson School of Communications and Media, The Puerto Rico Research Hub, and The Texts and Technology Doctoral Program at the University of Central Florida