Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd

Medientheorie

The 2020 online version of the annual symposium is organized 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.

Links to the Online-Meetings will be available in time.

DAY2 Weds 16th December

Webinar 2: Subversion and Resistance: Defying Oppressive Structures
10.30 – 12.00
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

Webinar 3: Hidden Force: Celebrating the Invisible Labours
19.00 – 20.30
Orla McHardy: x‘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.