Die Arbeit des Zentrums für Medien- und Moderneforschung an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln zielt auf eine Medialisierung der Medien- und eine Modernisierung der Moderneforschung ab. Unser aktueller programmatischer Dreh- und Angelpunkt sind hierbei die vielfältigen Fragestellungen und Debatten rund um den Begriff der post/colonial modernities.
Cologne Media Conversations
Die Cologne Media Conversations stellen das zentrale Format der Arbeit des Zentrums für Medien- und Moderneforschung dar. Das Zentrum spricht in jedem Semester Einladungen an international anerkannte Gastwissenschaftler*innen aus, deren Arbeitsgebiete an die bestehenden interdisziplinären Strukturen und die medienwissenschaftliche Forschungsfragen der Philosophischen Fakultät anknüpfen. Die Eingeladenen besuchen die Fakultät, halten einen öffentlichen Abendvortrag und bieten eine Masterclass für fortgeschrittene Studierende und Doktorand*innen an. Hiermit machen die Cologne Media Conversations die internationale Anbindung der Kölner Forschung zu Medien und Moderne sichtbar und tragen zur Graduiertenausbildung bei.
Asian Racialization, Border Control and the Visual Document
Feng-Mei Heberer (New York University)
This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate connection with racialized state surveillance and border control in the United States. It discusses the ways that visual documents such as the headshot have been wielded on behalf of national immigration policies to contain border crossings since the 19th century, and explores the underexamined yet critical relation between state documentation and historical processes of gendered Asian racialization. Against this backdrop, I turn to the ongoing work of Miko Revereza, a Philippine-born artist and self-ascribed “undocumented-documentary filmmaker,” whose work introduces the powerful potential of fugitive, errant, and ephemeral visual forms. In close conversation with Revereza’s work, I examine how moving images in particular might attune us to documentation’s violent history and offer practices of visualization outside the demand to capture and deport.
Der Vortrag ist öffentlich.
Feng-Mei Heberer is faculty in Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and the author of Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Her work explores the connection between media, migration, and racialized gender and labor economies, with particular focus on Asian diasporas. She also participates in film curation and community arts programming, and has most recently collaborated with Saigon Experimental, Dekoloniale Berlin, and the Taiwan Women’s Film Association.
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Masterclass: Toward a feminist diasporic media method
On-demandness is a defining feature of digital media. It manifests in the often taken-for-granted expectation of instant accessibility and nonstop service. This talk features feminist media practices from the Asian diaspora, from onscreen performance to on-set production, to explore how on-demandness is also key to the imperial legacy of Asian gendered racialization. In dialog with select media works by Asian diasporans, we’ll ask how to reframe the function of digital media in ways that intervene in often violently neutralizing discourses and theories of digitality. Through shared reading, a lecture, in-class discussion and activity, we’ll explore how a feminist diasporic media method can help us theorize media in ways that bring back marginalized histories and lived experiences, including forms of resistance, sabotage, and community-building.
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