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Today's Topics:
1. Persistence Resistance 2010 (Magic Lantern Foundation)
2. www.tank.tv : Now Showing Paul McCarthy, until 29th Feb
(tank.tv press)
3. [Announcements] SAA, JNU: talk by Bhaskar Sarkar (Iram Ghufran)
4. [Announcements] netEX: calls & deadlines -->February 2010
([netEX])
5. Free Counselling Sessions in Bangalore (Chandni Parekh)
6. Gita Sahgal suspended by Amnesty Intnl (Kshmendra Kaul)
--- Begin Message ---Dear Friends We are happy to announce Persistence Resistance 2010: a festival of contemporary political films to be held from 25th- 27th February 2010 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The festival will screen a large number of films using multiple screening and viewing practices: films will be screened in auditoriums, in the outdoors, in simulated video parlours, at multi-hub video library and as installations. We will send a detailed programme, screening schedule etc as they firm up. Meanwhile, we would be happy if you could block your dates. We look forward to your presence at the festival. Please also circulate this information among those who might be interested to attend or write about the festival. With Best Wishes MLF Festival Team -- Magic Lantern Foundation J-1881, Chittaranjan Park New Delhi - 110 019 Ph:(011) 26273244; 41605239 email: <underconstruct...@magiclanternfoundation.org>, <magiclantern.foundat...@gmail.com> Website: www.magiclanternfoundation.org
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--- Begin Message ---*www.tank.tv: Now Showing Paul McCarthy, until 29th Feb * "The Father Begat the Son The Son Begat the Father" Paul McCarthy,* Family Tyranny*. Throughout February tank.tv will have the pleasure of exhibiting two works by Paul McCarthy. *Family Tyranny* & *Cultural Soup* were cut from two days of taped performance at a community television studio in 1987. Featuring McCarthy's fellow artist Mike Kelley, the videos are disturbing tableaux of familial horror, steeped in the stomach turning abjection that characterises the artist's now renowned body of work. Performed within a barely credible domestic set the format and characters in the videos enact several tropes of televised entertainment - the unruly teenager (as Mike Kelley attempts an escape through a window-like aperture) and the ‘how-to’ format of the cooking or DIY programme. The characters, just like the set, sit on the very edge of plausibility whilst the props also take on a life of their own at the border between representation and reality. It is this juncture, between fact and fiction, that McCarthy occupies in order to examine the dark fictions of cultural convention. Rather than produce these works as performance in 1987 McCarthy used that very contemporary tool of representation – video – to situate *Family Tyranny *and *Cultural Soup* closer to the domestic sphere than an ephemeral art event would have allowed. tank.tv is pleased to be able to re-situate this work once again within the context of an online community that experiences broadcast media in a way that could not previously have been imagined. This show is held in conjunction with a screening of McCarthy's *Contemporary Cure All *and* **F-Fort* on the 6th February at 7pm in Tate Modern's Starr Auditorium. Book your tickets early through the Tate box office. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ------------------------------ www.tank.tv <http://tank.tv/> www.tank.tv/freshmoves.htm -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - tank.tv 2nd Floor Princess House 50 - 60 Eastcastle Street London W1W 8EA pr...@tank.tv T: +44 (0)207323 3475 F: +44 (0)207631 4280 http://www.tank.tv - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fresh Moves - Out now! Order your copy on www.tank.tv "A significant archive of creative practices in the early years of twenty-first century England" Tyler Coburn, Tomorrow Unlimited --- tank.tv is an inspirational showcase for innovative work in film and video. Dedicated to exhibiting and promoting emerging and established international artists, www.tank.tv acts as a major online gallery and archive for video art. A platform for contemporary moving images.
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--- Begin Message ---The School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University Presents "Partition, Cinema, Mourning" A Talk by Bhaskar Sarkar Associate Profesor of Film and Media Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara Author of Mourning the Nation:Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition At The School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium 11th February, 2010 at 5 pm Tea will be served from 4.30 pm onwards _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announceme...@sarai.net http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements
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--- Begin Message ---netEX: calls & deadlines -->February 2010 ------------------------------------- NewMediafest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne ------------------------------------- newsletter contents a) . news b) calls & deadlines --> 04 Calls: 2010 deadlines internal 22 Calls: February 2010 deadlines external 11 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ a) news 1) On 1 January 2010 [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne launched NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture a festival context in an exchange between virtual and physical space 1 January -31 December 2010 http://2010.newmedifest.org 2) NewMediaFest'2010 announces the first venue in 2010 The presentation of the entire CologneOFF V festival program on CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity Sattal/India http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm ------------------------------------------------ b) Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2010: deadlines internal NewMediaFest'2010 has currently 4 calls running CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! - deadline 5 April 2010 Call for film & videoart 5 Years Cologne Online Film Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907 VideoChannel - deadline 2 March 2010 [self] ~imaging - artists portraying themselves in film & video http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852 NewMediaFest'2010 VideoChannel - deadline 2 April 2010 One Minute Films of OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 NewMediaFest'2010 *ongoing deadline 1 September 2009 - 1 September 2010 Java Museum - Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010 details, regulations and entry form can be found on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 ------------------------------------------------ February 2010 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 28 February Le Ville Matte residency Cagliari/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1922 28 February Detmold ShortFilm Festival /Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1954 19 February Anti - Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio/Finland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1964 15 February Cynetart Competition 2010 - Dresden/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1942 28 February Residency 2010 at Edith Russ Haus Oldenburg/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1832 28 February Arse Elektronika 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1640 26 February Crosstalk Videoart Festival Budapest/Hungary http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1634 23 February Currents 2010 - Santa Fe/New Mexico (USA) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1892 19 February Media City Film Festival 2010 Windsor/Canada http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1632 15 February Australian International Experimental Film Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1886 15 February 2nd International New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1933 15 February Athens Video Art Festival 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1838 15 February 56th Oberhausen Short Film Festival (German competition) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1653 15 February Videofestival Bochum (Germany) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1807 14 February re-new Digital Arts Festival Copenhagen/DK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1961 5 February 14th Annual Shortfilm and Video Festival Tempe/Arizona (USA) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1876 5 February LUMEN_EX Digital Art Award 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1889 2 February Rhizome Curatorial Fellow http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1973 1 February GO SHORT Online Competition Nijmegen/NL http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1925 1 February Sounding landscapes - soundart http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1804 1 February Writers residency in Bialsytok/Poland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1902 ----------------------------------------------- Ongoing calls: external/internal ----------------------------------------------- ---> SFC - Shoah Film Collection by VideoChannel & A Virtual Memorial Foundation ---> Selfshadows 2.= - net based project by Javier Bedrina -->Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA -->OUTCASTING - web based screenings -->Films and video screenings Sioux City (USA) -->Laisle screenings Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -->Videos for Helsinki based video gallery - 00130 Gallery -->Web based works for 00130 Gallery Helsinki/Finland -->Project: Repetition as a Model for Progression by Marianne Holm Hansen -->US webjournal Atomic Unicorn seeks netart and video art for coming editions -->TAGallery and more deadlines on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?page_id=4 ----------------------------------------------- NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net # calls in the external section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=3 # calls in the internal section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=1 ----------------------------------------------- # This newsletter is also released on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=9 # netEX - networked experiences is a free information service powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany # info & contact: info (at) nmartproject.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announceme...@sarai.net http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements
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--- Begin Message ---Details at http://psychologynews.posterous.com/free-counselling-sessions-in-bangalore If you or someone you know would like to avail of free counselling sessions in B'lore, get in touch with Sangita. Excerpts from her mail: I am training to be a counsellor at Parivarthan which is a counselling, research and training center. I am enrolled in their one year Basic Skills in Counselling programme,since June of 2009. Apart from the stress of performance, career growth and workplace relationships there are also issues like marriage, relationships, loneliness and depression, parenting etc which impact us at an individual level and effect our own productivity. I am here to listen and journey with this individual to find more effective ways of working/living. I hope they will avail of my skills.This is a voluntary service which is not charged and confidentiality is guaranteed and sacrosanct to the relationship .
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--- Begin Message ---Dear Harsh There are reports that after the Sunday Times article, Gita Sahgal has been suspended by AI. Given below is the statement reportedly issued by Gita Sahgal. Gita also happens to be an active member of "Women Against Fundamentalism" http://www.womenagainstfundamentalism.org.uk/index.html Kshmendra "Amnesty International and Cageprisoners" Statement by Gita Sahgal 7 February 2010 This morning the Sunday Times published an article about Amnesty International’s association with groups that support the Taliban and promote Islamic Right ideas. In that article, I was quoted as raising concerns about Amnesty’s very high profile associations with Guantanamo-detainee Moazzam Begg. I felt that Amnesty International was risking its reputation by associating itself with Begg, who heads an organization, Cageprisoners, that actively promotes Islamic Right ideas and individuals. Within a few hours of the article being published, Amnesty had suspended me from my job. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when a great organisation must ask: if it lies to itself, can it demand the truth of others? For in defending the torture standard, one of the strongest and most embedded in international human rights law, Amnesty International has sanitized the history and politics of the ex-Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg and completely failed to recognize the nature of his organisation Cageprisoners. The tragedy here is that the necessary defence of the torture standard has been inexcusably allied to the political legitimization of individuals and organisations belonging to the Islamic Right. I have always opposed the illegal detention and torture of Muslim men at Guantanamo Bay and during the so-called War on Terror. I have been horrified and appalled by the treatment of people like Moazzam Begg and I have personally told him so. I have vocally opposed attempts by governments to justify ‘torture lite’. The issue is not about Moazzam Begg’s freedom of opinion, nor about his right to propound his views: he already exercises these rights fully as he should. The issue is a fundamental one about the importance of the human rights movement maintaining an objective distance from groups and ideas that are committed to systematic discrimination and fundamentally undermine the universality of human rights. I have raised this issue because of my firm belief in human rights for all. I sent two memos to my management asking a series of questions about what considerations were given to the nature of the relationship with Moazzam Begg and his organisation, Cageprisoners. I have received no answer to my questions. There has been a history of warnings within Amnesty that it is inadvisable to partner with Begg. Amnesty has created the impression that Begg is not only a victim of human rights violations but a defender of human rights. Many of my highly respected colleagues, each well-regarded in their area of expertise has said so. Each has been set aside. As a result of my speaking to the Sunday Times, Amnesty International has announced that it has launched an internal inquiry. This is the moment to press for public answers, and to demonstrate that there is already a public demand including from Amnesty International members, to restore the integrity of the organisation and remind it of its fundamental principles. I have been a human rights campaigner for over three decades, defending the rights of women and ethnic minorities, defending religious freedom and the rights of victims of torture, and campaigning against illegal detention and state repression. I have raised the issue of the association of Amnesty International with groups such as Begg’s consistently within the organisation. I have now been suspended for trying to do my job and staying faithful to Amnesty’s mission to protect and defend human rights universally and impartially. - http://www.spectator.co.uk/martinbright/5759197/gita-sahgal-a-statement.thtml - http://stroppyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/amnesty-reinstate-gita-sahgal.html - http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=4558 --- On Mon, 2/8/10, Harsh Kapoor <aiin...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Harsh Kapoor <aiin...@gmail.com> Subject: [Reader-list] Amnesty International in bed with Jihadi types (just like many on the left) To: "sarai list" <reader-l...@sarai.net> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 12:18 AM http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7017810.ece >From The Sunday Times February 7, 2010 Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link An official at the human rights charity deplores its work with a ‘jihadist’ Amnesty International demonstrators wearing boiler suits by Richard Kerbaj A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims. Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at Amnesty’s international secretariat, believes that collaborating with Moazzam Begg, a former British inmate at Guantanamo Bay, “fundamentally damages” the organisation’s reputation. In an email sent to Amnesty’s top bosses, she suggests the charity has mistakenly allied itself with Begg and his “jihadi” group, Cageprisoners, out of fear of being branded racist and Islamophobic. Sahgal describes Begg as “Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban”. He has championed the rights of jailed Al-Qaeda members and hate preachers, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the alleged spiritual mentor of the Christmas Day Detroit plane bomber. Amnesty’s work with Cageprisoners took it to Downing Street last month to demand the closure of Guantanamo Bay. Begg has also embarked on a European tour, hosted by Amnesty, urging countries to offer safe haven to Guantanamo detainees. This is despite concerns about former inmates returning to terrorism. Sahgal, who has researched religious fundamentalism for 20 years, has decided to go public because she feels Amnesty has ignored her warnings for the past two years about the involvement of Begg in the charity’s Counter Terror With Justice campaign. “I believe the campaign fundamentally damages Amnesty International’s integrity and, more importantly, constitutes a threat to human rights,” Sahgal wrote in an email to the organisation’s leaders on January 30. “To be appearing on platforms with Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban, whom we treat as a human rights defender, is a gross error of judgment.” Amnesty is the world’s biggest human rights organisation with 2.2m members and a galaxy of celebrity supporters, including Bono, John Cleese, Yoko Ono, Al Pacino and Sinead O’Connor. Its decision to work with Begg poses liberal backers with a moral dilemma and raises questions about the direction in which Amnesty has travelled since it was set up in 1961 to support “prisoners of conscience”. “As a former Guantanamo detainee it was legitimate to hear his experiences, but as a supporter of the Taliban it was absolutely wrong to legitimise him as a partner,” Sahgal told The Sunday Times. Begg, 42, from Birmingham, was held at Guantanamo for three years until 2005 under suspicion of links to Al-Qaeda, which he denies. Prior to his arrest, Begg lived with his family in Kabul and praised the Taliban in his memoirs as “better than anything Afghanistan has had in 20 years”. After his release Begg became the figurehead for Cageprisoners, which describes itself as “a human rights organisation that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners ... held as part of the War On Terror”. Among the Muslim inmates it highlights are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Abu Hamza, the hook-handed cleric facing extradition from Britain to America on terror charges, and Abu Qatada, a preacher described as Osama Bin Laden’s “European ambassador”. Sahgal, 53, is not the only critic of Begg at Amnesty. In 2008 a board member of its US arm opposed Begg’s appearance, via videolink, at its AGM, but was overruled. When Begg appeared at Downing Street last month as part of a group delivering a letter to Gordon Brown calling for the release of the last British resident held at Guantanamo, he was accompanied by Kate Allen, head of Amnesty’s UK section since 2000. Allen is a leftwinger who was the girlfriend of Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, for almost 20 years. This weekend Amnesty said it had launched an internal inquiry after Sahgal raised her concerns with bosses, including Allen and Claudio Cordone, the interim secretary-general. Anne Fitzgerald, policy director of Amnesty’s international secretariat, said the charity had formed a relationship with Begg because he was a “compelling speaker” on detention. She said he had been paid expenses for his attendance at its events. Asked if she thought Begg was a human rights advocate, Fitzgerald said: “It’s something you’d have to speak to him about. I don’t have the information to answer that.” Yesterday Begg dismissed Sahgal’s claims as “ridiculous”. He defended his support for the Taliban and the decision by Cageprisoners to highlight the plight of detainees linked to Al-Qaeda: “We need to be engaging with those people who we find most unpalatable. I don’t consider anybody a terrorist until they have been charged and convicted of terrorism.” _________________________________________ reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. Critiques & Collaborations To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-requ...@sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. 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