"The archive is vast and its teaching endless" between the Egyptian revolution and the perforrmativity of law
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Course ID: | 3600-KM-AVTE-OG |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
08.9
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Course title: | "The archive is vast and its teaching endless" between the Egyptian revolution and the perforrmativity of law |
Name in Polish: | "The archive is vast and its teaching endless" between the Egyptian revolution and the perforrmativity of law |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Oriental Studies |
Course groups: |
General university courses General university courses General university courses in the humanities |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
2.00
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Language: | English |
Type of course: | general courses |
Mode: | Classroom |
Short description: |
In Egypt, in the aftermath of the revolution, the political event with its visual documentation gets lost in the midst of an overwhelming archive. Evidentiary by default, 'protester made in the moment’ video testimonies, that were once produced out of a political urgency, have now become historical. In the attempt to capture and better understand these moments, I search the footage for blurs, cut-outs, fragments that seem unrepresentative enough or useless to the event at the time of the making. What did we learn from the political event? What was performed and captured? How was it turned into a spectacle? How do we speak the law? In the second section I will read and share images from a collective research on the theatricality of law. I would like to think with you of examples of other participatory works where the outcome (evidence) shapes new trajectories for storytelling, where the line between fiction and fact is blurred and the role of the filmmaker is not clear. |
Full description: |
In Egypt, in the aftermath of the revolution, the political event with its visual documentation gets lost in the midst of an overwhelming archive. Evidentiary by default, ‘protester made in the moment’ video testimonies, that were once produced out of a political urgency, have now become historical. In the attempt to capture and better understand these moments, I search the footage for blurs, cut-outs, fragments that seem unrepresentative enough or perhaps useless to the event at the time of the making. What did we learn from the political event? What was performed and captured? How was it turned into a spectacle? How do we speak the law? The enactment of the legal is a social construct brought about before law and after its fictions. As socialised ghosts, our collective minds register each others codes, through methodical patterns of self elevating humans. And through these, on-repeat renditions of memorised codes, we collectively share, a law-like behaviour. In the first section of the workshop I would like to look at how documentations were made. How, from the position of an onlooker/participant, the resulting stories dictate form in which they are made. In the second section I will read and share images from a collective research on the theatricality of law. I would like to think with you of examples of other participatory works where the outcome (evidence) shapes new trajectories for storytelling, where the line between fiction and fact is blurred and the role of the filmmaker is not clear. |
Bibliography: |
Metwaly, Jasmina, and Philip Rizk. "On Trials: The Manual of the Theatre of Law." Ertür, Basak. "Spectacles and Spectres: Political Trials, Performativity and Scenes of Sovereignty." Abdelfattah, Alaa. "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works," Chapter: "Palestine on My Mind." |
Learning outcomes: |
(in Polish) -- |
Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Activity during the workshop, |
Practical placement: |
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Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)
Time span: | 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16 |
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Type of class: |
Workshops, 15 hours, 12 places
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Coordinators: | Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł | |
Group instructors: | Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł | |
Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
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