Speakers: Sanaz Sohrabi (Concordia University), Siobhan Angus (Carleton University), Ishita Tiwary (Concordia University)
2023-02-09 6:00pm
VOX Contemporary Image Center, 2 Rue Sainte-Catherine E #401, Montréal
This event was held as part of Sanaz Sohrabi’s exhibition Extraction Out of Frame, which was on view at VOX until March 4, 2023.
At this round table between artist Sanaz Sohrabi, Dr. Siobhan Angus, and Dr. Ishita Tiwary, the discussants addressed petromodernity’s relationship with photography and film as embodied technologies of coloniality during the operations of British Petroleum in Asia. They engaged with the artist’s expansive archival research into BP’s archives to investigate the relationship between the political economy of photography, archival technologies, and the visual history of resource extraction in Iran.
Sanaz Sohrabi also further unpacked her essay film Scenes of Extraction and the expanded installation created specifically for the exhibition Extraction Out of Frame on view at VOX.
Sanaz Sohrabi (b.1988, Tehran) is a research-based artist, filmmaker, and essayist currently a Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et culture doctoral candidate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montréal. Read more
Siobhan Angus is an art historian and organizer. She is an assistant professor of Media Studies at Carleton University and holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from York University where her dissertation was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal.
Ishita Tiwary is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University. She also directs the research lab on Media and Migration—Raah. She also directs the research lab on Media and Migration—Raah.
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