Framer Framed

21 Nov 2024
17:00 - 20:30

Inward Outward - Revisiting Witnessing & the Archive: A Conversation with Tina Campt & Mohanad Yaqubi

Join this year’s Inward Outward event – Revisiting Witnessing & the Archive – at Framer Framed on 21 November 2024. Organised by KITLV, Sound & Vision and RCMC, Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race. Through a symposium series, publication, workshops and other events, Inward Outward brings theory and practice into dialogue by drawing together people from different professional and creative backgrounds.

Last year, Inward Outward initiated a conversation on how concepts of witnessing and care engage with sound and moving image archives in the form of a two-day symposium. Rather than engage with a new theme this year, ongoing events press Inward Outward to return to these themes and conversations. In doing so, they hope to extend the threads sewn in 2023 to address the brutal escalation of long-held settler colonial projects as they redraw what witnessing, care and archival work might entail right now. 

For 2024, Inward Outward takes a different approach in order to revisit these themes. The programme features an afternoon working session with James Parnell (by invitation), an early evening conversation between scholar Tina Campt and filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi, followed by the launch of the last symposium’s edited collection.

Campt and Yaqubi will discuss how film practices and sonic and visual archives resonate with cycles of colonial and racist violence, as well as the challenges we face as we witness, carefully archive and resist their unfolding. What does it mean to be critical of colonial archives and their formation in a time when physical sites of memory – archives, universities, museums, monuments and shrines – are actively and intentionally being destroyed by war? What are the ethics of archival knowledge-work intent on protecting past, present and future memory at this moment?

Programme

13:00 – 16:00 | Working Session with James Parnell (Closed)

16:30 – 17:00 | Sign-In Desk Open for Evening Programme

17:00 – 19:00 | A Conversation with Tina Campt & Mohanad Yaqubi

19:00 – 19:30 | Publication Launch of Inward Outward 2023 Edited Collection

19:30 – 20:30 | Closing Drink

This event is in English. Admission is free.

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Partners

Inward Outward is organised by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (Sound & Vision), with special support from the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen’s Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC). This event edition is held in collaboration with Framer Framed.

Agenda