Symposium / Online

Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd

The 2020 online version of the annual symposium is organised in the format of webinars in cooperation between Under_the_Radar (Holger Lang), the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Gabriele Jutz) and the team of Ecstatic Truth V: Birgitta Hosea, Animation Research Centre, UCA Farnham, UK; Pedro Serrazina, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal; and Tereza Stehlikova, CREAM, University of Westminster, UK.
Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd – Part 1

The Many Forms of Censorship

Partial Recording
Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd – Part 2

Subversion and Resistance – Defying Oppressive Structures

Partial Recording
Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd – Part 3

Hidden Force – Celebrating the Invisible Labours

Full Recording

DAY 1: Tuesday, 15 December 2020

19:00 – 20:30 CET – ONLINE

Webinar 1: The Many Forms of Censorship

Andrijana Ruzic: Recurring Elements of Absurd in Several Films of Zagreb School of Animation (1958-1969)

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

Susan Young: Who is, or Was, Ms A

Presentations followed by discussion and Q&A hosted by Birgitta Hosea.

DAY 2: Wednesday, 16 December 2020

10:30 – 12:00 CET – ONLINE

Webinar 2: Subversion and Resistance – Defying Oppressive Structures

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

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

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

Presentations followed by discussion and Q&A hosted by Birgitta Hosea.

DAY 2: Wednesday, 16 December 2020

19:00 – 20:30 CET – ONLINE

Webinar 3: Hidden Force – Celebrating the Invisible Labours

Orla McHardy: ‘C: Maintenance Animation is a drag: it takes all the fucking time’ 

Sally Pearce: Shades of Invisibility. A case study in animation activism.

Oliver Gingrich / Sara Choudhrey: AYAH – Sign: Collaborative Digital Art with the Grenfell Communities

Presentations followed by discussion and Q&A hosted by Tereza Stehlikova.