No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image — A talk by Erika Balsom

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, November 3, 7pm for No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, a talk by Erika Balsom preceded by a screening of Han Ok-hee’s Untitled 77A (1977, 6 minutes) and Grupo Chaski’s Miss Universo en el Perú (1982, 32 minutes).

This screening and talk will explore the conceptualization and realization of No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, an exhibition and cinema program that took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in summer 2022, co-curated by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. At a time when feminism is enjoying a mainstream resurgence but must be reclaimed from a neoliberal emphasis on individual success, and when the hybridization of documentary and artists’ film occupies a vital place in the landscape of contemporary practices, No Master Territories made a strategic return to the past. Concentrating primarily on the period of the 1970s to 1990s, a time when women’s liberation movements took hold internationally, it staged an expansive encounter with nonfiction film and video by over 80 artists and collectives across the spaces of the gallery, the cinema, and a library. In addition to screening the two films, the event will launch the publication Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (2022), published by MIT Press.

Erika Balsom’s talk is the fourth edition of Film Beyond Film: Art and The Moving Image, a series of monthly lectures at e-flux Screening Room by researchers whose work has formed the discourse at the intersection of modern/contemporary art and cinema, and that focus on the histories of artists’ films, situating them within broader aesthetic, political, and economic contexts.

For those who can’t attend in person, the event will be livestreamed on this same page.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility         
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.       
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.       
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.