Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/12-04-2022 -Event 4

LB: Focus group: 09:00 - ±18:00 "The voice within – Decolonizing strategies towards an ethical gaze." facilitated by Laura Huertas Millán in the small project space

Day - 2 : Imperial apparatuses

- 9h -13h

Continuing to think about optical devices and modes of seeing rooted in colonialism, we will visit the Rotterdam’s Zoo. On site, we will:

(1) Observe the animals. How do they live in their settings? How do they interact with visitors? How the architecture of the place influences our perception of it? (2) Have a conversation around this question: what other devices of seeing/being seeing the zoo makes you think of? (3) Do a deep listening exercise on site to engage with the sonic complexity on site: which voices are present in the zoo’s soundscape?

- 15h – 18h

Back in the studio, we will watch Fabrizio Terranova’s Donna Haraway: Story telling for earthly survival (77 mins, 2017). What considerations, reflections, the zoo experience, and the film recall regarding terms such as extractivism, possession, occupation? How to build a lens-based relationship with subjects and beings who do not share our same language?

At the end of the afternoon session, we will take a moment to write and gathering some notes around these questions.