Where: Darren Star Theater (Melnitz 1422A)
When: Wednesday, February 14, 2 pm-3:50 pm
Join CSW|Streisand Center and the School of Theater, Film and Television for a book talk with author Feng-Mei Heberer, discussing, “Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance: the Moving Image Undocument.”
This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate connection with racialized state surveillance and border control in the United States. It discusses the ways that visual documents such as the photograph have been wielded on behalf of U.S. immigration policy to contain border crossings since the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), and highlights the underexamined linkage between official documentation and historical processes of Asian racialization.
Against this backdrop, Herberer turns to the work of Miko Revereza, a Philippine-born artist and self-ascribed “undocumented-documentary filmmaker”, exploring how Revereza advances an aesthetic of the fugitive and ephemeral undocument that both attunes us to documentation’s violent history and mobilizes moving image practices beyond the demand to capture and report.
