Once called “La perle de l’empire,” Indochina was understood as one of France’s benevolent and civilising enterprises. Within the context of colonial expansion, photography played a substantial yet overlooked role in defining vernacular forms of modernity for the indigènes. In this lecture, Jacqueline Hong Nguyén will focus on the international mobility of Vietnamese photographers during […]
CREAM doctoral candidate Camille Waring‘s talk on the state, technology, surveillance and how we resist, now forms part of a new exhibition at the London Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in central London. Decriminalised Futures is a group exhibition featuring thirteen international artists whose work speaks to the multiplicity of contemporary sex worker experiences. The exhibition highlights the […]
In 2021, CREAM doctoral candidate Camille Waring, was awarded £11,400 in research funding from National Ugly Mugs (NUM). NUM is a charity working with sex workers to research, provide safety tools and end the culture of violence against sex workers. The research project, Visual Violence: Sex Workers’ Experiences of Image-Based Abuses was birthed from an […]
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Latin London: A Life in the Diaspora, a podcast for discussion, highlighting the life of the Latin American community in London. In this second season, called Latin London: A Life in the Diaspora, we will talk about postcolonial theories, in the light of the awakening of Latin American feminism from the 1970s onwards. That is […]
As director and producer, Vincent Du made an investigative documentary, Behind the Artificial Intelligence Cameras, for Al Jazeera’s Rest of Story programme. This documentary investigates the data privacy and facial recognition crisis facing the two Asian countries, China and South Korea, where technology is developing most rapidly, in our current era dominated by artificial intelligence, video surveillance, and social media. […]
Bisan Abu Eisheh, Breathing Archives: On Art and Decolonial Discourse in Palestine Andreia Alves de Oliveira, The Politics of the Office: Space, Power, and Photography (www.andreiaoliveira.net / riverboatsinnerthoughts) Silvia Angeli, Catholicism in Italian cinema in the age of ‘the new secularisation’ (1958-1978) Barby Asante, That Bird is Singing Us an Invitation to Meet Our Future: Listening to the Call of Sankofa […]