LAURA LIVERANI: AINU NENO AN AINU
Ainu Neno An Ainu
Screening with Q&A
Tuesday, May 2, 7 pm
Photostudio 06.E.014
Critical Encounters:
decolonizing the
Photographic Portrait
talk + workshop
Friday, May 5, 9 am
Photostudio 06.E.014
Bitte anmelden / Please register:
mareike.foecking@hs-duesseldorf.de
Screening + Workshop werden in Englisch gehalten.
Screening + Workshop will be held in English.
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Laura Liverani berichtet von ihrer praktischen Erfahrung mit der Ainu-Community und ihrer Wahl von gemeinschaftlichem Porträt und Familienalbum als Darstellungsform, um persönliche und kollektive Erzählungen hervorzurufen. Im Anschluss an das Screening am Dienstag wird Laura am Freitag einen Workshop geben, der sich mit der Repräsentation Anderer durch fotografische Porträts befasst. Für den Workshop ist eine Anmeldung an mareike.foecking@hs-duesseldorf.de erforderlich. Mehr zum Film Ainu Neno An Ainu und zu Laura Liverani im Folgenden.
AINU NENO AN AINU
Ainu Neno An Ainu is a long term documentary project, both a solo photo series and a documentary film, co-directed with filmmaker Neo Sora.
The film is an interwoven set of stories narrated mainly by Maya, a young Ainu activist who grew up in the Hokkaido village of Nibutani. Her voice guides the audience as other villagers tell their stories and portray the histories of their community, from their individual and collective journey of forced assimilation and discrimination to the revitalization of their own language and culture. The cast is comprised of the people who live in the village of Nibutani, which hosts a population that is over 80 percent of Ainu descent. The stories of Nibutani form an extended family album, revealing a tight-knit community deeply involved in both recovering and reinventing their indigenous heritage after a history of Japanese colonization.
Ainu Neno An Ainu, both as a photo series and as a film, was exhibited and screened internationally at museums and festivals, such as the Rautenstrauch-Jost Museum in Cologne, the Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum in Tokyo, and Nippon Connection festival, among others.
Laura Liverani will share her hands-on experience engaging with the Ainu community, and the choice of the collaborative portrait and the family album as a mode of representation to elicit personal and collective narratives. Following the screening, Liverani will conduct a one-day workshop focusing on the representation of others through photographic portraiture. For participation in the workshop, please register with mareike.foecking@hs-duesseldorf.de.
Bio
Laura Liverani is an award-winning documentary photographer, formerly based in Tokyo. Her work focuses on socio-anthropological issues and is published and exhibited internationally. Publications include The Guardian, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, D – la Repubblica, Geo, The Passenger – Japan. Laura’s projects were exhibited at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, the Japan Foundation in Sydney, and the Singapore International Photo Festival, among others. She is a member of photojournalism agency Prospekt.
Biographie (de)
Laura Liverani ist preisgekrönte Dokumentarfotografin, die ehemals in Tokyo gelebt und gearbeitet hat. Ihre Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit sozialanthropologischen Fragen und wurde international veröffentlicht und ausgestellt. Ihre Arbeiten wurden unter anderem in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, D – la Repubblica, Geo und The Passenger – Japan publiziert. Lauras Projekte wurden im Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, dem Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, der Japan Foundation in Sydney, dem Singapore International Photo Festival und anderen ausgestellt. Sie ist Mitglied der Fotoagentur Prospekt.
http://www.lauraliverani.com/
