program

Week 1: The Camera as Political Body
-    Introductory Meeting
-    Theoretical framework: Problematizing performance-based filmmaking as political practice
-    Screening: VestAndPage – excerpts from political performance-based videos and films
-    Collective conversation
-    Assignment #1: Political atmosphere as power relation
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Week 2: Visibility, Power, Counter-Images
-    Political performance video documentation vs political performance-based film
-    Screening: Political performance-for-camera examples
-    Feedback on Assignment #1 + Collective conversation
-    Assignment #2: Body, action, object as political agents

Week 3: Public Space, Borders, and Infrastructures
-    Dis/entangling space, time, and the body under political conditions
-    Screening: Bodies constrained by politics
-    Feedback on Assignment #2 + Collective conversation
-    Assignment #3: Space, sites, constraint, exposure

Week 4: Narratives of Resistance
-    Dissecting personal urgencies within systemic violence
-    Screening: Bodies positioning, situating, reclaiming
-    Feedback on Assignment #3 + Collective conversation
-    Assignment #4: Voice, text, silence, sound

Week 5: The Political Image in Motion
-    The nature of the political moving image and its performativity
-    Screening: Aftermaths of the political moving image 
-    Feedback on Assignment #4 + Collective conversation
-    Assignment #5: Production and editing as ethical acts

Final Session
Presentation of participants’ performance-based video works as a temporary collective political constellation.

KEY CONCEPTS 
-    The Political Image
-    Poetics of Relations (as political methodology)
-    The Body as Political Archive 
-    Situated Knowledge
-    Public Spaces Discourse and Site-Specific Performance
-    The Personal is Political
-    Counter-Narratives
-    Memory Activation
-    Structural Violence
-    Power, Visibility, Invisibility, Spectrality
-    Guerrilla / Lockpicking Filmmaking
-    Ethics of Collaboration and Representation
-    Ecological, Social, Emotional, and Political Intelligence
-    Cultural Appropriation
-    Collective Trauma and Testimony
-    Urgency & Responsibility
-    Embodiment as Method

READINGS
Participants receive curated theoretical, artistic, socio-political, philosophical, and activist readings addressing:
-    Performance and politics
-    Performance-for-camera
-    Artivism and embodied resistance
-    Ethics of representation
-    Situated knowledge, feminist, and decolonial perspectives
-    Performance-based film practices