Please note: You can register for this session using the following link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VQuGZ9HATF6ykcNVy8IeVg. If you have added the session to your schedule, you will be granted access to the Zoom Room.Requiem for the Innocent (Behn, Rubinstein, Willis) - El Paso and Beyond is an interdisciplinary art project, both a traveling museum/gallery exhibition and a book from GFT Publishing, combining documentary photography, text, music, and dance by artists from four separate locations (John Willis, Robin Behn, Matan Rubinstein, and Shannon Hummel, respectively). The photographs are of the spontaneous memorials that sprang up in the wake of the mass shooting targeting Latinx people at the Walmart in El Paso in August 2019. The aim of Requiem is to use the combined art forms to honor and evoke the deep, sustained, and complex sense of grief arising from such tragedy, sustaining the attention to this shooting and all mass shootings. The text contributes lyric meditation on the feeling tone of the whole while also integrating research about mass shootings and possible courses of action. A visual/aural performance of the artwork will be followed by discussion of collaboration across time, space, and disciplines; questions about the right to speak about others’ tragedies; access to gallery/museum space and book funding/distribution; the silencing of public health professionals on the subject of gun violence; possible next steps with other disciplines and venues; and the struggle to reach as wide an audience as possible.
The Time that Remains (Foxley, Osorio) - The Time that Remains is an interactive documentary project which explores digital interactive technology and a mixture of audiovisual formats (photo collage, video, photo and sound) to create and experience of proximity and time within a place: El Aguilucho street, in Santiago de Chile. An interdisciplinary academic project, developed at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, it proposes the User a deep and efficient multidimensional documentary experience, sensory and narrative, which aims to evoke aspects of life and nature The project invites the user to interact with a street, listening to neighbours or entering places over the course of a day (morning, afternoon, night), in which three activities converge: commerce, health-aging and residence.
