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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [artbox] Precarious Lives - screening and discussion by Joanne Richardson From: "InterSpace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, April 7, 2008 15:05 To: "artbox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 11, 2008 (Friday), 19.00 Red House, Red Hall, Free Entrance Precarious Lives, 64 min, 2008. A film by Joanne Richardson and Andreea Carnu (RO/USA). An experimental documentary mixing archival footage of female labour over the past century with 10 portraits of Romanian women working in different jobs and in different countries today. The film seeks to challenge the dominant discourse about precarity (and about the precariat as the new proletariat) and the fact that it ignores differences based on gender, limited mobility, and the first and third worlds of Europe. Precarity: noun, 1. dependence on chance circumstances beyond control, inability to plan ones life 2. living without material or psychological security, stability and predictability 3. the widespread condition of flexible, intermittent, short-term and part-time work that characterizes post-Fordist capitalism (quote from the beginning of the film) "As a noun, precarity does not exist. It is an adjective, modifying subjects, changing through circumstance. To understand what it means to be precarious, we must invert the theory, taking our own lives as a point of departure. To walk the streets that bring us together, and the routes that sometimes divide us. And while walking, to ask questions (quote from the ending of the film) Screening and discussion by Joanne Richardson. With the participation of activists from Bulgaria and people involved in precarious industry in Bulgaria. The presentation proposes a debate about the meaning of precarity, and in what sense it can apply to transition countries. The film is in Romanian with English subtitles. The discussion will be in English with Bulgarian translation. Bio: Joanne Richardson is a writer, filmmaker and the director of D Media (http://www.dmedia.ro), an NGO in Cluj, Romania that is working in the intersection of art, activism and new technologies. She was born in Bucharest, lived for 15 years in New York, and is currently working between Cluj and Berlin. She studied Philosophy at NYU, and Literature & Film at Duke University. 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, several feature length documentaries on delocalization, migration, precarity and activism, and an experimental travel diary about transition, borders and memory. She is currently working on two projects with InterSpace in Bulgaria, a video about activism that is part of the project Commonplaces of Transition, and Transitland Europa, the production of a video archive, publication, and a series of conferences and exhibition exploring transition from 1989-2009. For more info and links to texts: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/richardsonbio.html _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
