Gandhi, Camera, Action! Anti-corruption politics and visual culture in 21st century India.

6 maja w cyklu Kolokwiów Antropologicznych PIA w Istytucie Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego gościł będzie prof. Christopher Pinney (University College London) - o godzinie 18:15 w sali 20 wygłosi wykład zatytułowany Gandhi, Camera, Action! Anti-corruption politics and visual culture in 21st century India.

‘Gandhi, Camera, Action!  Anti-corruption politics and visual culture in 21st century India’

In summer 2011 the neo-Gandhian Anna Hazare emerged as the iconic figurehead of  a new anti-corruption politics. The Indian media drew parallels with the Arab Spring and suggested that he was a second Gandhi, “come again”. This talk explores the question of repetition and citation in popular Indian visual culture, across mass-produced images and film, engaging the manner in which aesthetics (and the politics which it animates) is both constrained  and liberated by the need to always be “half-seen in advance”.  The creativity of this citationality, it is suggested, demands a theorization of bricolage as a logic which is performatively “hot” and expansive.

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