Sonic Acts 2019: Elizabeth A. Povinelli – After the End, Stubborn Affects and Collective Practices

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER

Elizabeth A. Povinelli – After the End, Stubborn Affects and Collective Practices – Introduction by Mirna Belina

24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

As many in the West look forward to a climate-induced end of times, huge areas of the human and nonhuman world have been struggling to exist in the toxic excrement of late liberal capitalism. For them, the end of the world has already happened – and it has happened multiple times: the catastrophe of colonialism and imperialism, neoliberalism and extractive capitalism, toxicity and disrepair. This talk asks what affective and collective practices look like if viewed from within worlds that have long existed after the end, using the Karrabing Film Collective as a special case.

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York, Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. She is the author of five books, including the most recent, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (2016), winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award. Karrabing films and installations have shown at the Tate Modern, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Melbourne International Film Festival, Contour Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Van Abbemuseum, Institute for Modern Art in Brisbane, Vargas Museum and other venues. Povinelli lives and works in New York City and Darwin, Australia.

The visit of Elizabeth Povinelli was made possible by Het Nieuwe Instituut with support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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