Publication of the 2020 Inward Outward Symposium

Critical Archival Engagements with Sounds and Films of Coloniality

On the 24th and 25th of January 2020, the first edition of the Inward Outward symposium took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Initiated between the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Sound and Vision, and with the support of the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC), Inward Outward brought together archival practitioners, artists, academics, and researchers to explore the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race.

This publication collects different contributions from the speakers of Inward Outward that reiterate and reflect on the presentations that took place during the symposium; they interrogate how we might situate ourselves in relation to the materials we work with, and the locations we work from. The essays gathered thus continue some of the significant conversation threads started at Sound and Vision, but are by no means exhaustive of the rich exchanges that took place during the event or in the days that followed.

On the 24th and 25th of January 2020, the first edition of the Inward Outward symposium took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Initiated between the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Sound and Vision, and with the support of the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC), […]

Wigbertson Julian Isenia (University of Amsterdam – UvA/Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) & Eliza Steinbock (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society)

  • Collection
  • Reimagining the Archive
  • Terminology

Sebastian Jackson (Harvard University)

  • Intimacy
  • Reimagining the Archive
  • Terminology

Matthias De Groof

  • Artist Approach
  • Collection
  • Film & Video

David Frohnapfel

  • Affect
  • Institutional Approach
  • Reimagining the Archive
  • Silence & Erasure

Charissa Granger
(Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Artist Approach
  • Collection
  • Representation
  • Silence & Erasure
  • Sound

Clemens Gütl (Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

  • Collection
  • Context
  • Institutional Approach
  • Sound

Andrea Zarza Canova (British Library)

  • Collection
  • Context
  • Institutional Approach
  • Sound

Brecht Declercq (meemoo, Flemish Institute for Archiving) & Jonas van Mulder (KADOC–KU Leuven)

  • Archival Practices
  • Collection
  • Context
  • Film & Video
  • Institutional Approach

Moira van Dijk, Leila Musson & Eef Vermeij (International Institute of Social History – IISH)

  • Archival Practices
  • Collection
  • Institutional Approach

Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye Filmmuseum)

  • Archival Practices
  • Collection
  • Context
  • Film & Video
  • Institutional Approach

Gerda Jansen Hendriks (NTR Dutch Public Television)

  • Collection
  • Context
  • Film & Video
  • Representation

Jeftha Pattikawa (Verloren Banden)

  • Collection
  • Film & Video
  • Representation
  • Silence & Erasure

Sound and vision are critical to my multi-sensorial archival methodology and to my praxis of storytelling.

  • Affect
  • Artist Approach
  • Film & Video
  • Intimacy
  • Reimagining the Archive
  • Representation
  • Sound

Deborah A. Thomas (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Affect
  • Artist Approach
  • Film & Video
  • Reimagining the Archive

Sadiah Boonstra (University of Melbourne/Curator Public Programs Asia TOPA)

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