Centre for Screen Cultures, University of St Andrews - Screening and Discussion of Expedition Content (Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020) 12 & 14 April
The Centre for Screen Cultures warmly invites you to a screening and discussion of a work of ‘sonic cinema’ that provokes questions around the histories of ethnographic, colonial, and documentary filmmaking through its repurposing of archival material. Crossing disciplinary lines, the event will consider the interconnections of art and politics, of sound and image, and of colonialism and human rights.
In 1961, Robert Gardner, the American anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker led the Harvard Peabody Expedition to what was then known as Netherlands New Guinea (now West Papua). Funded by the Dutch colonial government, the group stayed for five months in the Baliem Valley among the Hubula people where they recorded many hours of audio (and filmed footage, resulting in Gardner’s 1963 film Dead Birds). Expedition Content, an augmented sound work by sound artist Ernst Karel and political and media anthropologist Veronika Kusumaryati (both associated with the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab), is an immersive sonic experience that returns to these tape recordings and brings that history into dialogue with the neo-colonial regime and ongoing violence being experienced by West Papuans today.
On Monday 12th April at 7pm, The Byre Theatre will be hosting a free online (and in person*) screening of Expedition Content. Please visit The Byre Theatre's website to register: https://byretheatre.com/events/centre-for-screen-cultures-expedition-content/
As the work is primarily an audio-led piece, when watching online we recommend the use of headphones to best experience the sound.
On Wednesday 14th April at 2pm, the Centre for Screen Cultures will host an online roundtable discussion – we will be joined by the directors: Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati, and the musician, Korneles Siep from West Papua, who will discuss the making of the work and its significance for present day human rights abuses in West Papua. The discussion is free and open to all – please register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-screen-cultures-expedition-content-discussion-tickets-139690629433
This event will take place online via Zoom. You will be a sent a link for the meeting after you have registered for the event.
As the screening and discussion are both free of charge, we encourage attendees to make a donation (of whatever they can afford) to support non-profit organisations in West Papua. If you wish to do so, there are two ways to contribute (please use ‘Expedition Content’ as reference):
Via Veronika Kusumaryati’s paypal ([log in to unmask]) and she will direct the funds to two local organizations in West Papua: Teach for Papua or the video collective West Papua Updates. Both are legally recognized as non-profits in Indonesia but they do not have the capacity to set up their own website.
Alternatively, you can donate via Hapin Netherlands that supports educational programs and social-economic empowerment for Indigenous Papuans: https://eng.hapin.nl
*If the Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted, the screening will also take place in person (with limited seating to meet with safety measures).
Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Co-Director of Centre for Screen Cultures: https://screenculture.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews
101a North Street, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9AD
Tel: 01334 467483
Staff profile: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/staff_profiles/dr-lucy-fife-donaldson/
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