Master Class
Toward a Feminist Diasporic Media Method
59. CMC und Masterclass mit Feng-Mei Heberer, Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies von der Tisch School of Arts, New York University in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst
Border Control, Asian Racialization, and the Visual Document
Abendvortrag am Mi., 07.01.2026, 18:00 – 19:30
Ort: Universität zu Köln, Seminargebäude (106), Raum S01
This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate connection with racialized state surveillance and border control in the United States. It discusses the ways that visual documents such as the headshot have been wielded on behalf of national immigration policies to contain border crossings since the 19th century, and explores the underexamined yet critical relation between state documentation and historical processes of Asian racialization. Against this backdrop, I turn to the ongoing work of Miko Revereza, a Philippine-born artist and self-ascribed “undocumented-documentary filmmaker,” whose work introduces the powerful potential of fugitive, errant, and ephemeral visual forms. In close conversation with Revereza’s work, I examine how moving images in particular might attune us to documentation’s violent history and offer practices of visualization outside the demand to capture and deport.
Toward a Feminist Diasporic Media Method
Masterclass am Do., 08.01.2026
Ort: Universität zu Köln, Seminargebäude (106), Tagungsraum 0.04
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On-demandness is a defining feature of digital media. It manifests in the often taken-for-granted expectation of instant accessibility and nonstop service. This masterclass features feminist media practices from the Asian diaspora, from onscreen performance to on-set production, to explore how on-demandness is also key to the imperial legacy of Asian gendered racialization. In dialog with select media works by Asian diasporans, we’ll ask how to reframe the function of digital media in ways that intervene in often violently neutralizing discourses and theories of digitality. Through shared reading, a lecture, in-class discussion and activity, we’ll explore how a feminist diasporic media method can help us theorize media in ways that bring back marginalized histories and lived experiences, including forms of resistance, sabotage, and community-building.
Feng-Mei Heberer is faculty in Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and the author of Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Her work explores the connection between media, migration, and racialized gender and labor economies, with particular focus on Asian diasporas. She also participates in film curation and community arts programming, and has most recently collaborated with Saigon Experimental, Dekoloniale Berlin, and the Taiwan Women’s Film Association.
Poster
Non-Representational Concepting
Konzepte jenseits hegemonialer Verfahren der Repräsentation
Prof. Dr. Rose Marie Beck, Professorin für Afrikanistik (Afrikanische Sprachen und Literaturen, Universität Leipzig)
Di., 20. Juni 2023
Abendvortrag von 18 – 19.30 Uhr
Ort: Universität zu Köln, Seminargebäude 106, Raum S12
Mi., 21. Juni 2023
Seminar von 13 – 16 Uhr
Ort: Universität zu Köln, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, Aachener Str. 217, 50931 Köln, 3. OG, Raum 3.A06 („Skyfall“)
Wegen der begrenzten Teilnehmerzahl wird für das Seminar am Mittwoch um Anmeldung gebeten: martin.mueller@uni-koeln.de
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher und englischer Sprache statt.
Photography and Images of the Self
November 4, 2022
organized by Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst
Start: 1:00 pm
Universität zu Köln, Gebäude 112
Meister-Ekkehart-Str. 11, Room 1.10
50937 Köln