An overview of key moments in a decade of curated AAS conference screen/media/art programs that have addressed questions of the aesthetics, scale, speed, and affective work of storytelling and listening as counter-colonising practice in a warming world.
Paper long abstract:
Over the past ten years, programming of the AAS conference screen/media/art stream of events has intentionally addressed questions of aesthetics, scale, speed and the affective forces of storytelling and listening in a conflicted and warming world.
Across these concerns, curatorial vision has been attuned to collisions of decolonising and recolonising forces and has foregrounded critical inquiry into the politics and transformations of modes and processes of art-media co-creativity, especially where anthropology, the GLAM sector, community and First Nations' media-arts and national screen industries disentangle and relink in a representational swing-dance of aligned and disarticulated priorities.
My contribution to this discussion will highlight some of the key moments in this curatorial history, paying particular attention to dynamics of voice, extraction and the possibilities of an artful and publicly accessible anthropology engaged with our most urgent contemporary shared human questions and challenges.