Shoreline Movements

Erika Balsom

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Hu Tai-li, Voices of Orchid Island, 1993. Image courtesy of the artist.

Issue #114
December 2020










Notes
1

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 4th ed. (Aunt Lute Books, 2007), 23.

2

Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Duke University Press, 2019), 9 and 40. Emphasis in original.

3

Mbembe, Necropolitics, 99.

4

The cycles of “Shoreline Movements” are as follows: Movement 1 (November 16–December 6, 2020): Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Black Beach / Forces / The Dead / Camp, 2016; Tsuchimoto Noriaki, The Shiranui Sea (Shiranuikai), 1975; Karimah Ashadu, Lagos Island, 2012. Movement 2 (December 7–27, 2020): Thao Nguyen Phan, Becoming Alluvium, 2019; Sky Hopinka, małni: towards the ocean, towards the shore, 2020; Maya Deren, At Land, 1944. Movement 3 (December 28, 2020–January 17, 2021): Edith Dekyndt, Dead Sea Drawings (Part 1), 2010; Joshua Bonnetta, The Two Sights, 2019; Rebecca Meyers, blue mantle, 2010. Movement 4 (January 18–February 7, 2021): Carlos Motta, Nefandus, 2013; Hu Tai-li, Voices of Orchid Island, 1993; Patricio Guzmán, The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar), 2015. Movement 5 (February 8–21, 2021): Jessica Sarah Rinland, Y Berá – Bright Waters, 2016; Ben Rivers, Slow Action, 2011; Johan van der Keuken, Flat Jungle (De platte jungle), 1978. Movement 6 (February 22–March 14, 2021): Peggy Ahwesh, The Blackest Sea, 2016; Francisco Rodriguez, A Moon Made of Iron (Una luna de hierro), 2017; Zhou Tao, The Worldly Cave, 2017. For more info, including program notes, see .

5

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd ed. (1958; University of Chicago Press, 1998), 52–58.

6

Fatimah Tobing Rony, The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle (Duke University Press, 1996), 118.

7

Trinh T. Minh-ha, When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1991), 66.

8

Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, trans. Catherine Porter (Polity, 2018), 94 and 98. Emphasis in original.

9

Arendt, Human Condition, 52.

10

Aaron Gerow, “Tsuchimoto and Environment in Documentary Film,” in Of Sea and Soil: The Cinema of Tsuchimoto Noriako and Ogawa Shinsuke, ed. Stoffel Debuysere and Elias Grootaers (Sabzian, Courtisane, and CINEMATEK, 2019), 95.

11

Mbembe, Necropolitics, 15.