Temp.Files in Screenslate and Creatrix
In March Screenslate published An Interview with Temp. Files by Shelby Shaw on its sexy, newly redesigned site. Thanks Shelby for your thoughtful interview!
This month, Creatrix published a profile on us: TEMP. FILES ON RESIDING IN THE DIGITAL SPACE. So great to have our new experimental video coop out there in the world (in digital space!).
Visit us at temporaryfiles.net. This month check out Michelle Levy’s awesome video Scenes from an Apartment and read the interview with her conducted by temp.files member Emily Brandt. Come back for Tusia Dabrowska’s video and interview in July and Sunita Prasad’s in August.
Temp. Files video cooperative
So pleased to participate in the inaugural group of Temporary Files! We just launched Kara Hearn’s fantastic new video, “Self modulation for a new age.” My new video (*cough*) will be live in April.
Initiated by new media /performance artist Tusia Dabrowska and interdisciplinary artist/curator Michelle Levy, Temp. Files is a video publishing cooperative, online publication, streaming site, and remote residency. We are a group of seven female-identifying artists working between text, social engagement, and performance, who have committed to supporting each other in the process of creating experimental streaming video work. In a moment where we can no longer rely solely on established IRL spaces to see, discuss, make, and disseminate art, we must create our own platforms and opportunities for each other where they don’t exist.
How it works: Each video, resulting from a challenge to the artists to experiment with something new, will be accessible for one month and then disappear. Video releases are staggered throughout the year. Each artist gets two months of feedback and support from the cooperative, followed by one month where the new video is streaming. An interview with each artist, conducted by another member of the group, is published alongside the video. This month’s interview with Rah Eleh was conducted by Michelle Levy. There will be rotating Instagram takeovers and intermittent programming led by each month’s featured artist.
Videos are released on the first of each month in the order of the names above.
We are: Rah Eleh, Kara Hearn, Rachel Stevens, Emily Brandt, Michelle Levy, Tusia Dabrowska, and Sunita Prasad.
This marks the first season of Temp. Files. New artists will be invited to participate in the seasons to come.
To receive announcements of future video releases, please subscribe to the Temp. Files list so you can catch all the videos. And follow us!
World Records Vol. 4 – Our Violent Commons \ The Territory of Listening
I am so pleased to have contributed a short piece to this issue of WORLD RECORDS Vol. 4: “IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS,” edited by Nicholas Gamso and Jason Fox, published by Union Docs.
My essay Our Violent Commons \ The Territory of Listening is one of the responses to a chapter from Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s new book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism and I discuss the wonderful film A Magical Substance Flows Into Me by Jumana Manna through this lens.
About this issue via Union Docs:
Our latest issue of World Records investigates how documentary film and video, performance art, curatorial frameworks, digital social media platforms, genetic mapping, and photojournalism can provide the grounds for collective action in the pursuit of a world worth having.
Featuring an incredible lineup of contributors including:
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Arab Image Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Nitasha Dhillon, Rayya El Zein, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Kareem Estefan, Jason Fox, Nicholas Gamso, Josh Guilford, Bonnie Honig, Jonathan Kahana, Helene Kazan, Toby Lee, Martin Lucas, MTL Collective,The Nakba Archive, The New Negress Film Society, Mariya Nikiforova, The Noncitizen Archive, Jenny Reardon, Warren Sack, Gregory Sholette, Cecilia Sjöholm, Rachel Stevens, Miriam Ticktin.
SCMS19 Conference – Remakes and Remediations panel
Excited to present at my first Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, this year in Seattle (SCMS19), and to share the bill with such great papers by Jessica Ruffin, Susan Felleman, and Grahame Weinbren (which included a new Georges Méliès remake). Thanks to Susan Felleman for chairing our panel, “Remakes and Remediations, Experimental and Impossible, in Theory and Praxis.”