Presenters at the Symposium

Dance, drawing and repetition: an absurd manifesto about female body

This paper summarizes the production process and the evolution of “Kam”, a pixilation/2D animation film, being developed in an iterative manner over three years in three different countries.

WEBINAR 2: Wednesday 16th December, 10:30-12:00 CET - ONLINE

AYAH – Sign: Collaborative Digital Art with the Grenfell Communities

Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, Oliver Gingrich of FLUX and artist Sara Choudhrey curated a series of workshops and events as part of the AYAH – Sign project.

WEBINAR 3: Wednesday 16th December, 19:00-20:30 CET - ONLINE

Abstract Animated Documentary? Moving-Image Abstraction and Meaning-Making in Hong Kong’s Age of the Absurd.

Three new experimental animation films by the author take up current Hong Kong themes including social housing and the anti-government protests to explore animated abstraction as a discursive space.

WEBINAR 2: Wednesday 16th December, 10:30-12:00 CET - ONLINE

Animating Truth(s): Surveillance, Censorship and Journalistic Ethics

The paper brings together two supposedly conflicting tendencies: animated film and its commitment to truthfulness. It will deal with the following question: How do artists, in a world assumed to be politically and economically unstable, address the questions of existential crisis and articulate truth(s)?

WEBINAR 1: Tuesday 15th December, 19:00-20:30 CET - ONLINE

‘C: Maintenance Animation is a drag: it takes all the fucking time'

Animation and the maternal are parallel acts. There are striking overlaps between animation practice and the pooled maternal time of maintenance and caregiving: repetitive actions and gestures, interruption, incremental and elongated time, cycles, the embodied experience of slow mundane practices, the durational drag of staying alongside something or someone.

WEBINAR 3: Wednesday 16th December, 19:00-20:30 CET - ONLINE

Rethinking Injustice in the Age of Absurd: Re-Constructing Prisons as Narrative Spaces through Animated Memories

This paper explores the animated memory-telling forms (specifically animated documentaries and Virtual Reality artworks) becoming weapons for social criticism and platforms to rethink what comprises justice.

WEBINAR 2: Wednesday 16th December, 10:30-12:00 CET - ONLINE

Shades of Invisibility. A case study in animation activism.

I propose to explore the agency of invisibility in my project ‘Chernobyl Journey’, (CJ) accommodating the complexity of my activities as an independent documentarian and animator by tracing invisibility as a rhizomatic/agential (Deleuze/Guattari,1987) (Barad, 2007) thread across the totality of my practice. 

WEBINAR 3: Wednesday 16th December, 19:00-20:30 CET - ONLINE

Recurring Elements of Absurd in Several Films of Zagreb School of Animation

Zagreb School of Animation is an informal name of a group of Yugoslav filmmakers whose highly innovative short animated films, characterized by their common “spiritual specificity”, had made a great impact on the international animation scene by the end of the Fifties.

WEBINAR 1: Tuesday 15th December, 19:00-20:30 CET - ONLINE

“Who is, or Was, Ms A”? Using Autoethnographic Animation to Survive and Subvert Psychiatry’s Narratives of Entrapment and Oppression

This paper explores autoethnographic animation practice as a method for both critiquing psychiatry and rescripting trauma.

WEBINAR 1: Tuesday 15th December, 19:00-20:30 CET - ONLINE