[Oberlist] BG* Precarious Lives - screening and discussion by Joanne Richardson

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Subject: [artbox] Precarious Lives - screening and discussion by Joanne
Richardson
From:    "InterSpace" <home la i-space.org>
Date:    Mon, April 7, 2008 15:05
To:      "artbox" <artbox la groups.cult.bg>
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April 11, 2008 (Friday), 19.00
Red House, Red Hall, Free Entrance

Precarious Lives, 64 min, 2008.
A film by Joanne Richardson and Andreea Carnu (RO/USA).

An experimental documentary mixing archival footage of female labour over
the past century with 10 portraits of Romanian women working in different
jobs and in different countries today. The film seeks to challenge the
dominant discourse about precarity (and about the precariat as the new
proletariat) and the fact that it ignores differences based on gender,
limited mobility, and the first and third worlds of Europe.

“Precarity: noun,
1. dependence on chance circumstances beyond control,  inability to plan
one’s life
2. living without material or psychological security, stability and
predictability
3. the widespread condition of flexible, intermittent, short-term and
part-time work that characterizes post-Fordist capitalism” (quote from the
beginning of the film)

"As a noun, precarity does not exist. It is an adjective, modifying
subjects, changing through circumstance. To understand what it means to be
precarious, we must invert the theory, taking our own lives as a point of
departure. To walk the streets that bring us together, and the routes that
sometimes divide us. And while walking, to ask questions 
” (quote from
the ending of the film)

Screening and discussion by Joanne Richardson. With the participation of
activists from Bulgaria and people involved in precarious industry in
Bulgaria. The presentation proposes a debate about the meaning of
precarity, and in what sense it can apply to “transition” countries.

The film is in Romanian with English subtitles. The discussion will be in
English with Bulgarian translation.

Bio:
Joanne Richardson is a writer, filmmaker and the director of D Media
(http://www.dmedia.ro), an NGO in Cluj, Romania that is working in the
intersection of art, activism and new technologies. She was born in
Bucharest, lived for 15 years in New York, and is currently working
between Cluj and Berlin. She studied Philosophy at NYU, and Literature &
Film at Duke University. Editor of Subsol webzine (http://subsol.c3.hu),
and of two books, Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance
(Autonomedia Press, NY, 2003) and Geert Lovink: Cultura Digitala (Idea
Press, Cluj, 2004). Author of essays on social movements, postcommunism,
copyleft, tactical media, the history of the avant-gardes, and
experimental film & video. Recent videos include two shorts on
nationalism, several feature length documentaries on delocalization,
migration, precarity and activism, and an experimental travel diary about
transition, borders and memory. She is currently working on two projects
with InterSpace in Bulgaria, a video about activism that is part of the
project “Commonplaces of Transition,” and “Transitland Europa,” the
production of a video archive, publication, and a series of conferences
and exhibition exploring transition from 1989-2009.

For more info and links to texts:
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/richardsonbio.html