Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 2:00 pm – Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 6:00 pm

BODY/CAM Workshop

BODY/CAM: resistance, surveillance and the self(ie)

A workshop for postgraduate students, artists and activists - Guided by Jenna Brager.

Date: Thursday 12th November 2015, 2pm- 6pm

Location: Holden Café Space, Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BR

Tickets: FREE - Register on Eventbrite here

In this workshop, participants will creatively encounter viral images, particularly of state violence and activist resistance, focusing on the ways in which meaning is ascribed to pictures in online networks. We will look at examples of artist and activist engagement with images, including the Tinted Justice Collective portraits of victims of police murder in the U.S. We will think about what happens to images of violence and resistance after they go viral, how we engage online images in their second life. What is the encounter between the self and the subject of the image? What is our responsibility in looking? What is the admonition or decree contained within the photograph? What happens when we stop scrolling, if we sit with the image for a while, if we engage the image in different, embodied ways? From our group discussion, participants will individual create visual compositions using collage, text, and other expressive practices in order to amend, annotate, and engage images to contribute to a group exhibition after the workshop.

Jenna Brager is a PhD candidate in Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on the visual culture of remembering violence, and interrogates the concepts of justice, witnessing, and evidence in human rights discourse.