When two southerners meet: A Performative conversation between Nkule Mabaso and Ram Krishna Ranjan
This conversation navigates the tensions, contradictions and common ground on the question of justice and violence read through the respective practices of two PhD candidates at HDK-Valand. Their work is rooted in the geographical specificities of South Africa and India and explores the theme of Violence, emanating from the ‘contact points’ of their situatedness which resists immediate ‘common ground’ and yet functions as an intervention in how common rhetorical strategies around creative regimes are engaged in the formulation of aesthetic experiences.
Schedule
Friday19 Nov 2021
10.00-11.00
When two southerners meet: A Performative conversation between Nkule Mabaso and Ram Krishna Ranjan
Ram Krishna RanjanNkule Mabaso
Location: online
Moderator: Jyoti Mistry
Contributors
Nkule Mabaso
Nkule Mabaso is director of Fotogalleriet Oslo, Norway. Since 2021 she has been based at the HDK-Valand Academy of Art & Design, Faculty of Fine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, working on a PhD focusing on artistic and curatorial practices that are situated at the intersection of art, ecology and feminisms.
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.
Ram Krishna Ranjan is a lecturer in Film at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. He works at the intersection of research, pedagogy and film practice. His educational background is in Economics, Media and Cultural Studies, Fine Art and Film. In his work, he critically explores decolonial and postcolonial perspectives and the intersectionality of caste, class and gender. He has made several films on these issues. His latest, Fourth World, delves into the various facets and stages of a creative-collaborative practice that attempted to foreground and engage with Dalit experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943.