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The Militant Image - A Ciné Geography lecture
No full textWithin the context of cinematographic traditions and different liberation movements on the African continent, Ros Gray’s research focuses on revolutionary cinema and its global networks; the screen as a site of radical gathering; anti-colonial and post-colonial theory; and contemporary film and video art
The Coloniality of Planting
No full textFor the final podcast of the series, Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh will introduce how planting was central to colonialism and explain why it is vital that we recognise the ongoing effects of colonial botany and the plantation system. They will discuss how gardens – from botanical collections to municipal parks – are historical sites of exclusion and labour as well as leisure and enjoyment, detailing the hierarchies that exist within these spaces, and describing how artists have actively sought to decolonise these spaces through planting with reference to ongoing projects in London
The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography
Get PDFThe special issue of Third Text maps out a relational geography which takes as its nexus the radical politics and filmmaking practices of revolutionary decolonisation since the late 1960s and 1970s. The essays investigate the archives and afterlives of liberation struggle and revolution, with the aim to bring into productive proximity a series of dialogues between scholars and theorists, filmmakers, artists and curators thinking through what Okwui Enwezor has called 'the transnational public sphere' of militant, non-aligned and Third Cinema. The special issue includes a number of texts by filmmakers including Solanas and Getino, Eduard de Laurot and Margaret Dickinson that have not been published in English before or have been long overlooked, accompanied by scholarly contextualising essays.
The Militant Image contributes to an important emergent body of work by artists, filmmakers and curators (Hito Steryl, The Otolith Group, Renée Green, Florian Zeyfang) re-assessing militant avant-garde work so that it might function as a resource for contemporary artistic and anti-capitalist activity. It brings together new international research on the aesthetics and cine-cultural politics affiliated with the non-aligned liberation struggles and revolutions of the late twentieth century. It includes new translations and reprints of key texts and manifestos, and theorises how the digital afterlives of militant films can re-animate moments of political intensity, renewing their relevance to contemporary art.
The Militant Image constructs an alternative cartography of cine-cultural practices associated with the liberation struggles and revolutions of the late twentieth century. It thus calls into question the political constitution of the present through critical analysis and artistic responses to the aesthetics of Tricontinental liberation. Following on from the work of Okwui Enwezor, Kristin Ross and Nicole Brenez, among others, it produces new theoretical vocabularies through which to analyse and articulate the subjectivities, aesthetics and strategies of militant filmmaking so as to map out a transnational public sphere constituted through affliliation to Tricontinental politics and experimental film language
Compendium: Amniotic Archives
Get PDFA Triple LP on Vinyl with Booklet.
An archive of the first years of the radio Amnion commissions in an edition of 500.
Contributions from collaborators in the booklet include Dr Ros Gray, Dr Elisa Resconi, Dr Astrida Niemanis and Anne Bourne, amongst others.
LP and Booklet design with Marie Otsuka
La terre damnée: conflits botaniques et interventions artistiques
No full textEdited French translation of Gray, Ros and Sheikh, Shela. 2018. Editor's Introduction: The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions. Third Text, 32(2-3), pp. 163-175. ISSN 0952-882
The Socialist Friendships of Mozambican Cinema
No full textRos Gray presents Abderrahmane Sissako’s Octobre (1993) and Rostov Luanda(1998), drawing on her recent chapter, 'Haven’t you heard of internationalism? The Socialist Friendships of Mozambican Cinema' from Lars Kristensen’s book Post Communist Film – Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture, Routledge, 2012. Gray’s paper and research explores the ‘affective communities’ formed as a result of Soviet support during the Mozambican independence movement and the educational and cultural initiatives that followed the liberation in 1975. Followed by a conversation with Mark Nash
Strangling the Parrot
Get PDFThe essay 'Strangling the Parrot', which takes its title from the translation from French of a phrase referring to the imbibing of absinthe, is a perambulation through the queer ecological entanglements of Carl Gent's work, involving wormwood, experimental cultures of intoxication, and art nouveau. The book Felon Herb is a continuation of an earlier project at KELDER by Carl Gent titled Multiplex. Borrowing from the format of a traditional exhibition catalogue, Felon Herb is a compilation of documentary material and newly commissioned essays and poems by Rebecca Bligh, Ros Gray and Angus Sinclair
Towards an open-source social middleware for humanoid robots
Get PDF09.12.13 KB. Ok to add author version to spiral.Recent examples of robotics middleware including YARP, ROS, and NaoQi, have greatly enhanced the standardisation, interoperability and rapid development of robotics application software. In this paper, we present our research towards an open source middleware to support the development of social robotic applications. In the core of the ability of a robot to interact socially are algorithms to perceive the actions and intentions of a human user. We attempt to provide a computational layer to standardise these algorithms utilising a bioinspired computational architecture known as HAMMER (Hierarchical Attentive Multiple Models for Execution and Recognition) and demonstrate the deployment of such layer on two different humanoid platforms, the Nao and iCub robots. We use a dance interaction scenario to demonstrate the utility of the framework
Cinema on the cultural front: Filmmaking and the Mozambican revolution
No full textThis article, for a special issue on lusophone African cinemas, analyses how, during the armed struggle and the revolution that followed independence in Mozambique, filmmaking was understood as operating on the ‘cultural front’ of an international struggle against capitalist imperialism. Shortly after independence in 1975, The Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) established an Instituto Nacional de Cinema (INC), and Maputo became a key site in a network of African liberationist filmmaking that had been emerging since the late 1960s. Gray argues that in a country in which most of the population had no prior experience of the moving image, cinema offered FRELIMO the possibility of mobilising around a new identity based on revolutionary nationalism, and teaching the Mozambican people about how the radical transformations of decolonisation connected them to other peoples struggling for emancipation across the world. Gray explores how the moving image operated as an agent of social change, and how this involved decolonising filmmaking itself – in all its modes of production, distribution and screening. She conducted numerous interviews with filmmakers, government ministers and others, as well as in-depth analyses of films and documentaries not discussed in detail in previous scholarly overviews of Mozambican filmmaking during the revolutionary period. Some of the films discussed were recovered from filmmakers’ personal archives and archives in Mozambique, the UK, Serbia and Lisbon. Gray gave related talks and lectures at numerous venues, including: ‘Para uma História do Cinema em Moçambique’, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo (2010); ‘Building an African presence’, Columbia University, New York (2010); Otolith Group roundtable discussion of Jean-Luc Godard’s Changer d’Image, Tate Britain, London (2010); ‘The paths to revolt: Cinema, images and revolutions in the 1960s and 1970s’ (keynote), Musée du quai Branly, Paris (2011); ‘Reconstruction work’ symposium (lecture and panel participant), Liverpool Biennial, The Bluecoat (2012)
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