Vortragende

Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Trinh T. Minh-ha, University of California, Berkeley

„The Politics of Forms and Forces“

Power relations lay at the core of normative representations. In the tuning in with the forces of a life event, one can say that form is attained only to address the formless. Reality in its social and historical dimension is not a material for artistic reflection or political commitment; it is what powerfully draws one to cinema and yet cannot be captured without dissolving itself in its fragile essence when one approaches it without subtlety and vulnerability.  "We are all engaged in social rituals of our daily activities, and by remaining unaware of their artistic and technological ritual propensity, we remain 'in conformity." The lecture will draw from her book, The Digital Film Event.

Short Biography

Trinh T. Minh-ha is an independent filmmaker, writer, composer and feminist, post-colonial theorist. Her work, which includes numerous books, films and art installations, has received world-wide acclaim and prestigious awards. Before joining the University of California (Berkeley) as Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric (Film), she taught at universities in Dakar, Tokyo and the US such as Cornell and Harvard. Her most recent book is Elsewhere, Within Here. Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event (2010) and a classic book of hers, Woman, Native, Other has just been published in German translation "Postkolonialität und Feminismus schreiben" (Turia + Kant, 2010)

Further information:
http://www.trinhminh-ha.com/

Book Publications

• Trinh T. Minh-ha (2010): Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (2010):  German edition: "Woman . Native . Other - Postkolonialität und Feminismus schreiben." Edited and introduced by Anna Babka. Translated by Kathrina Menke. turia & kant
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (2005): The Digital Film Event (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1999): Cinema Interval (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1996): Drawn from African Dwellings (Indiana University Press) with Jean-Paul Bourdier
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1992): Framer Framed (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1991): When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, gender and cultural politics (Routledge)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: (1990) Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture (co-editor with Cornel West, R. Ferguson & M. Gever. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art and M.I.T. Press,)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1989): Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism (Indiana University Press)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1987): En minuscules (book of poems, Edition Le Meridien)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1985): African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Holmes & Meier)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (1981): Un art sans oeuvre, ou, l'anonymat dans les arts contemporains (International Book Publishers, Inc.,)

Films

• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Night Passage (98mins, Digital, 2004) (fiction)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: The Fourth Dimension (87 mins, Digital, 2001)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: A Tale of Love (108 mins, 1995) (fiction)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Naked Spaces - Living is Round (135 mins, 1985)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha: Reassemblage (40 mins, 1982)

Installations

• The Desert is Watching (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2003, Kyoto Art Biennale)
• Nothing But Ways (in coll. with L. M. Kirby, 1999, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco)
• L’ Autre marche (The Other Walk) In collaboration wth Jean Paul Bourdier, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France 9 Juin 2006 -2009

Music

• Poems. Composition for Percussion Ensemble. Premiere by the Univ. of Illinois Percussion Ensemble, Denis Wiziecki, Director. 09 April 1976.
• Four Pieces for Electronic Music. 1975 Performances at the Univ. of Illinois.