Issue #16 Conviviality & Contamination Launch

Erin Cory is a media scholar committed to arts-oriented activist media praxis. She has taught and researched in the US/Mexico border region, Denmark, Sweden, and Lebanon, and earned her PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego (2015). Since beginning work in Scandinavia in 2017, she has focused on transmedia storytelling and artistic co-production in postmigration contexts, working alongside autochthonous creatives and creatives with experiences of forced migration. This work has included producing a podcast in Malmö and a digital storytelling series in Uganda. She is Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication Studies at Malmö University, where she co-directs the MA programme as well as Medea Lab. She enjoys urban rambles, watching Studio Ghibli films with her family, karaoke, and her side-hustle as a DJ.

Lucy Cathcart Frödén works at the intersections of arts, activism and academia. Her practice-based PhD from the University of Glasgow, titled Echolocations, explored through music and sound how making things together can foster solidarity and mutual care. She has particular interests in multilingual and process-driven creative collaboration, and has dabbled in songwriting, sound art and podcast production. She worked on the Conviviality and Contamination artistic research project at Malmö University, and she is currently at the University of Oslo, researching the role of music, sound and voice in social change, particularly in relation to carceral systems.

Oscar Hemer is Professor of Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University. An established author and editor with a background in arts journalism, Hemer’s diverse body of work ranges from fiction to academic writing to experimental literary anthropology. He is also the co-editor and translator of the collected works of Jorge Luis Borges into Swedish. He founded the Masters programme in Communication for Development at Malmö, and he is a member of the Rethinking Democracy (REDEM) research platform.

Jyoti Mistry is Professor in FILM at Valand Academy and works in film both as a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. She has made critically acclaimed films in multiple genres and her installation work draws from cinematic traditions but is often re-contextualized for galleries and museums that are outside of the linear cinematic experience. Select film works include: When I grow up I want to be a black man (2017), Impunity (2014), 09: 21:25 (2011), Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit (2010) and I mike what I like (2006).

Select publications include: we remember differently: Race, Memory, Imagination (2012) a collection of essays inspired by her film which explores the complexity of racial identity in South Africa. Gaze Regimes: Films and Feminisms in Africa (2015). Places to Play: practice, research, pedagogy (2017) explores the use of archive as an exemplar entry to rethink colonial images through “decolonised” film practices. She has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of African Cinema: “Film as Research Tool: Practice and Pedagogy” (2018).

She has taught at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), New York University; University of Vienna; Arcada University of Applied Science Polytechnic in Helsinki, Nafti in Accra and Alle Arts School at University of Addis Ababa. Mistry has been artist in residence in New York City, at California College of Arts (San Francisco), Sacatar (Brazil) and a DAAD Researcher at Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University (Berlin). In 2016-2017 she was Artist in Residence at Netherlands Film Academy. In 2016 she was recipient of the Cilect (Association of International film schools) Teaching Award in recognition for innovation in practices in film research and pedagogy.