Punctum and Noema in Moving Image Media: Sobremesa Workshop with Gabrielle A. Hezekiah
Location & Time:
Wendesday, November 25th from 10 AM-11:30 AM in Ferrier 230 (Coffee and Croissants will be provided)
Description:
In this talk, Dr. Hezekiah will discuss work in progress on the video Sobremesa by Kaoru Katayama. Taking her cue from Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, she will explore the possibility of a punctum in Katayama's work and situate this within phenomenological notions of the noema to suggest an extension of recent scholarship on the photographic or stillness within the moving image.
Format:
Dr. Hezekaih will give an introdutcion to her reasearch and to the film Sobremesa, which we will screen a short clip from. A discussion will follow based on Hezekiah's research, Sobremesa, and the readings distrubuted. The readings for this seminar can be found below. E-mail ahcs.pgss@mail.mcgill.ca if you would like to receive a pdf copy of them.
Bio:
Gabrielle A. Hezekiah is a writer and scholar working on philosophy, visual art and theories of the moving image. She is the author of Phenomenology's Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience. She is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Postgraduate Programme in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill.
Link to the Readings:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iqs9ql0ftuwnl8e/AAAoR6q3cN_7jSJWpHrtYp3ea?dl=0
Readings:
Barthes, Roland. "Studium and Punctum." In Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Translated by Richard Howard, 25-27. New York: Hill & Wang, 2008.
Bellour, Raymond. “Concerning ‘The Photographic’”. Translated by Chris Darke. In Still Moving Images: Photography and Cinema, edited by Karen Beckman and Jean Ma, 253 – 276. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Hezekiah, Gabrielle A. "Chapter 3: Being, Consciousness and Time." In Phenomenology's Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience, 60-74. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect.
