The coming catastrophe poses a challenge to thinking. Only recently have the interrelated events of human-induced climate change and mass extinction begun to unfold as a global media event of proportional magnitude. The proliferation of discourses around impending anthropogenic doom seems to have reached a virtual tipping point, from which there is no return to a “business as usual”-attitude. As the environmental conditions on which all human life depends change in ever more alarming rates, there seem to be few aspects of life, of policy making, and of theoretical work, that can remain unchanged. Scholars in the field of cultural and media theory, particularly in Weimar, are used to observing phenomena of change in terms of their historical becoming. While the identification of the historical causes (and causers) of anthropogenic change is decisive for the assessment of “what there is to be done”, the current situation is unique in that it also challenges habitual modes of thinking and forces us to train our eyes on the things to come.
As a part of this semesters "Bauhaus.Module", the lecture series "The Coming Catastrophe" invites everyone to Julia Bee's and Marina Dias Weis' upcoming lecture on "Film and Indigenous Resistance in Brazil".
Julia Bee is Junior-Professor for Image Theory at the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-University, Weimar. She is also, with Kat Köppert, speaker of the AG Gender/Queer Studies und Medienwissenschaft of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft and author of Gefüge des Zuschauens. Begehren, Differenz und Macht in Film- und Fernsehwahrnehmung. Her research areas include gender and media, the image as medium in and for research, visual anthropology, theories of perception and experience, spectatorship and postcolonial theory.
Marina Weis is an independent filmmaker, educator and activist whose works address the themes of historical memory, social and environmental rights in co-relation with intersectional, ecofeminist and decolonial struggles and resistance. Her last works are the series in 6 episodes "Dangerous Memory" that deals with the impact of the indigenous politics of the Brazilian State during the 21 years of civilmilitary dictatorship and its consequences until the present day; and the film "Frontier - the path of development" in which the world perspectives of a Guarani-Kaiowá indigenous leadership and a rural producer and lawyer, contrasts. Both film and serie will be released in 2020. Marina was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where she graduated in Social Sciences and Anthropology; She studied cinema in Havana, Cuba and currently lives in Berlin, Germany, intertwining in her daily practice, motherhood, activism and urban permaculture.
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