In Powerplay P3 we will specifically depart from the thematic consideration of ‘violence’ as a particular thematic framework in the context of broader understandings of power relations. Violence exists in multiplicity of forms, paces, scales, with a varying degree of visibility to us. On the one hand, we all might have experienced violence in some form. On the other hand, many forms and instances of violence might not be visible to us.

Here, we will dive into and think together towards an attentive, clear, and complex understanding of ‘violence’ in the multiplicities of scales and forms it could be performed; from the violence of centering certain forms of being in the world over others to the silencing of other forms of knowledge and structural capitalist logics and processes; from the scale of non-human and human bodies to lands and the planet; and from everyday temporal encounters to broad economic structures.

Violence

Recording

This course will focus on ‘recording’ as an overarching method for delving into the issues mentioned above. This method can be understood as a practice of collecting, and mostly framing; arranging, organising, and making public of information; information that could be visual, textual, auditory, evidential, or embodied. This includes practices of documentary making, documentation and archiving, drawing, transcribing, field-recording, mapping, and cartography, to name a few.