View from a Body: Symposium on Moving Image Culture and Embodied Affect
When
This event has now ended.
Location
Corner Southbank Boulevard & Dodds Street, Southbank. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Admission
A half-day program of talks, panel discussions and screenings connecting researchers and artists to discuss how bodies interact with and experience the moving image.
Exploring questions and provocations that surround moving image culture and notions of embodied affect,View from a Body will explore conceptions of the filmic gaze that reflect upon the personal and collective, cultural, political and constructed landscapes inhabited and experienced through engagements with haptic visuality.
Convened by Dr Cate Consandine and hosted between the VCA Art Forum and Buxton Contemporary, the Symposium envisions affective embodied and disembodied perspectives on moving image practices in dialogue with artistic researchers and cinematic scholars. The program is designed to create the space for critical reflection on how our bodies affect the way we see and understand moving images, and how artists use this through their work.
The symposium welcomes Adjunct Professor Lukas Brasiskis as its Keynote speaker. Brasiskis is Curator of Film and Video at e-flux (New York), where he seeks to bridge the gaps between the appreciation, curation, and study of artists’ moving image through regular screenings and discursive events.
View From a Body is supported by Art + Australia and the Dr Harold Schenberg Bequest.