Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Edge-Effects: Remediating Crisis & Critique in the Ayoreo Video Project
Thursday February 24, 2016
Anthropology and Sociology Building (ANSO) 134
11:30 – 1:30 pm
Event Poster: PDF
Dr. Lucas Bessire
Lucas Bessire is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.
Abstract
How can we envision an effective critical response to the non-sensical violence against life on our planet? To formulate a response to this perplexing dilemma, the talk draws on the experimental video imagery recently created by Ayoreo-speaking people of the Paraguayan and Bolivian Gran Chaco. It explores how unauthorized Indigenous self-imagery and the minor conditions of its production may offer untimely correctives to the visual economies, temporal causalities, perceptual registers and political lexicons often presumed to define the so-called “Anthropocene.” In doing so, it asks how Ayoreo remediations of self and world may charter novel axes for ethnographic critique.
Bio
Lucas Bessire is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author
of Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
