Crafted Image or How to Experience the Mythos of the Sacred?
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Abstract
This paper searches for ways in which the concept of image may step away from the rationale of colonial modernity that re-performs the similar logic of otherising the world by standardising one rationale to experience the world. Images emerging from the otherising standards of coloniality cannot express the experience of the otherness. To embody the spiritual, the mythic, and the non-causal rationalities, how the image may be rearticulated will be studied with the help of two films - Mati Manas by Mani Kaul, India and Golden Hands by Sergei Paradjanov, Armenia-Georgia.
Presenter Biography
Sanskriti Chattopadhyay is conducting artistic research at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has two post-graduate degrees in Film Direction and Screenplay Writing (Film and Television Institute India, India) and in Literary and Cultural Studies (The English and Foreign Language University, India). Interested in the cultural heritage of the landscape she has been born into, often her work is informed by the same. She has been academically presenting at various Universities, like – Alternative Spiritualities Conference (Harvard), the Lifetime Conference (Norway), Uncanny Intermediality Conference (Romania), the 17th International conference on Arts (Spain), 5th and 6th Congress of Bengal Studies (Bangladesh). Her publications include - Anales de history del arte, Swaraantar, and Caesurae. She has also been a part of several artistic research projects – at the Hungarian School of Fine arts (Budapest), SAAR Gothenburg, Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland (2021), Film University Babelsberg, Konrad Wolf (2020, 2019) and BRICS collaboration with WITS Film and Television, SA and Valand Film Programme, India Chapter (2018).