The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate presents:
Precarious Lives
screening of the new documentary by Joanne Richardson (Roumania/USA)
and Àndrea Carnu (2008, 64 min., in Romanian, with English
subtitles), followed by discussion with Joanne Richardson
Joanne Richardson presents the last part of her D Media video
documentary research in collaboration with Videoaktiv in Germany
trying to challenge the discussions on precarity and of the
precariat* as this has emerged in Italy and France, out of
the Autonomia and Situationist movements, respectively. The
presentation proposes an open debate about the meaning of
precarity, and in what sense it can apply to “transition”
countries.
Joanne Richardson is a video activist who works with the
projects “Commonplaces of Transition” a series of videos,
and “Transitland Europa” an archive of transition from 1989-2009,
both in collaboration with InterSpace, Videoaktiv (Berlin),
and K:SAK (Moldova) and of the upcoming project “Transitland
Europa,” an archive of transition from 1989-2009, also in
collaboration with InterSpace and Videoaktiv. She is also
a writer, a filmmaker and the director of D Media non-governmental
organisation in Cluj (Romania). She was born in Bucharest,
grew up in New York, and is currently living between Cluj
and Berlin. She studied Philosophy at NYU, and Literature
& Film at Duke University. Founder of D Media (http://www.dmedia.ro)
in Romania, an NGO active in the intersection of art, activism
and new technologies. Editor of Subsol webzine (http://subsol.c3.hu),
and of two books, Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital
Resistance (Autonomedia Press, NY, 2003) and Geert Lovink:
Cultura Digitala (Idea Press, Cluj, 2004). Author of essays
on social movements, postcommunism, copyleft, tactical media,
the history of the avant-gardes, and experimental film &
video. Recent videos include two shorts on nationalism, and
a feature length documentary on delocalization and migration.
More infromataion at: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/richardsonbio.html
and at http://www.dmedia.ro
More infromataion about D Media and video activism
at: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/richardsontext3.html
More infromataion about contra-documentality in Eastern
Europe at: http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/richardson.html
More infromataion about Subsol webzine at: http://subsol.c3.hu
*precariat - the social class,
not necessarily poor or members of a particular underclass,
disposed towards precarity. The prekariat is the post-Fordist
analogue of the proletariat (in German),
a term, designating the lifestyle of some certain strata in
the conteporary world, which living is somewhat economically
or politically uncertain, and subject to contstant risk of
change (f.e. employees on a temporary contract, subject to
being laid off all fo a sudden, or immigramts entitled to
work on a temporary basis.
April 11 (Friday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
In English, with interpretation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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