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Call for presentations | Second Inward Outward Symposium
01/02/2021
The international symposium Inward Outward brings 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.
Inward Outward
Archives, assumed to be containers of memory, are vested with a particular power to constitute and define who is and who is not included in (his)stories. Inward Outward asks what approaches and interventions exist (or could be imagined) that question archival practices in an effort to “decolonize” the archive, and explores what “decolonizing” the archive—within and beyond the walls of established institutions—could offer for the production of new bodies of knowledge.
There is something specific to sound and moving images as they hold a particular type of textured representation that uniquely captures the visual and aural qualities of who or what is being recorded. Taking a critical archiving approach as its base, Inward Outward explores what is specific to moving image and sound materials, including both materials of the past and those created in the present, and the archival practices used to collect, preserve, and make them accessible.
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 of Material Culture (RCMC), the first Inward Outward took place in January of 2020.
Call for Presentations
The second Inward Outward will take place from April 6–9, 2021 online, due to the constraints of the pandemic.
The upcoming edition will focus on Emotion in the Archive. This theme emerged during the first symposium, and has since occupied increasing space as a direct response to recent global occurrences. We invite researchers, archival practitioners, artists, filmmakers, curators and more to submit a proposal before February 1, 2021 at 10am CET.
For full details, please download the Call for Presentations with session descriptions, suggested presentation formats and submission information.
