The Artist as Public Intellectual: Bringing Rememory and Sankofa to imagined futures of ethical transnational media collaborations
This UKRI-HEIF funded event is facilitated by Developing a Media Decolonisation Imaginary (DMDI) and the Student Union at BU (SUBU).
The hybrid event will take place online, at Bournemouth University's Talbot Campus and at University of Westminster's Regent Campus between 28 and 29 November 2024.
'The Artist as Public Intellectual' adopts 'Rememory' in ways Toni Morrison (1987) defines as the revisiting and reimagining of the past to heal, dream, and inspire innovations. It also invokes Sankofa, the Ghanaian philosophical call to a futuristic progress which must intentionally include relevant heritages of the past. With these concepts, this event engages worlds in the ‘Global South’ beyond academia. It seeks to learn how artistic knowledge-exchanges about histories, socio-cultural heritages, filmmaking, as well as indigenous knowledge systems of media, identity, gender, and textiles, can advance innovative ways for rethinking ethical transnational media engagements around research, practice and teaching.
The event will feature film screenings, lectures, short plays and spoken word poetry and more from students, staff and graduates, including from BU. Some of the films that you can expect to see include:
Red, Blue, Green (2023), a film by Amrutha Palaserri, BU MA Directing graduate who was recently nominated for Best Alternative/Experimental Film at the Student Academy Awards
Sparrow’s Song (Coming soon). A drama series pilot targeted at Netflix Africa, this transnational piece was co-created by 40 BU students, graduates, academics and the DMDI network, in collaboration with the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood.
Visit our exhibition in the Atrium Gallery to see some of the projects and initiatives that BU are doing to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.