Liat Berdugo's guest appearances

Liat Berdugo

Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

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“So it becomes this dance of cameras where the whole goal of the Palestinian camera is to document a human rights violation, to take back some kind of power. And the goal of the Israeli camera is to block that power from being taken through vision.” — Liat BerdugoB’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, has been running its Camera Distribution Project since the early 2000s. The project distributes video camcorders to Palestinians, training them in documentation, and building an archive of citizen-recorded video. These videos cover a wide-range of topics, including settler violence, IDF night searches and demolitions.  How do visuals disrupt historical narratives of conflicts? What does it mean for someone to later on witness preserved traces of events? And in the context of Israel-Palestine, what impact does a camera actually have in the face of entrenched power dynamics? Producer Emily Bell interviews Liat Berdugo, author of the recently released book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine.CREDITSUnsettled is produced by Emily Bell, Asaf Calderon, Max Freedman, and Ilana Levinson. Original music by Nat Rosenzweig. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions. Video courtesy of the B’Tselem video archive.BIOLiat Berdugo is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, Places, and The Institute for Network Cultures, among others, and her latest book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, was released from Bloomsbury in 2021. She is one half of the art collective, Anxious to Make, and is the co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art series. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Berdugo lives and works in Oakland, CA.RESOURCESThe Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics and Politics in Israel and PalestineB’Tselem Camera Project ArchiveSpectral Power (Real Life, 8/22/17)Five Broken CamerasEyal Weizman

<p>“So it becomes this dance of cameras where the whole goal of the Palestinian camera is to document a human rights violation, to take back some kind of power. And the goal of the Israeli camera is to block that power from being taken through vision.” — Liat Berdugo</p><p>B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, has been running its Camera Distribution Project since the early 2000s. The project distributes video camcorders to Palestinians, training them in documentation, and building an archive of citizen-recorded video.<strong> </strong>These videos cover a wide-range of topics, including settler violence, IDF night searches and demolitions.  How do visuals disrupt historical narratives of conflicts? What does it mean for someone to later on witness preserved traces of events? And in the context of Israel-Palestine, what impact does a camera actually have in the face of entrenched power dynamics? </p><p>Producer Emily Bell interviews Liat Berdugo, author of the recently released book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine.</p><h3>CREDITS</h3><p>Unsettled is produced by Emily Bell, Asaf Calderon, Max Freedman, and Ilana Levinson. Original music by Nat Rosenzweig. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions. Video courtesy of the B’Tselem video archive.</p><h3>BIO</h3><p><strong>Liat Berdugo</strong> is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, Places, and The Institute for Network Cultures, among others, and her latest book, <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-9781838602710/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East</a>, was released from Bloomsbury in 2021. She is one half of the art collective, <a href="https://anxioustomake.ga/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anxious to Make</a>, and is the co-founder of the <a href="http://www.livingroomlightexchange.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Living Room Light Exchange</a>, a monthly new media art series. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Berdugo lives and works in Oakland, CA.</p><h3>RESOURCES</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-9781838602710/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics and Politics in Israel and Palestine</a></li><li><a href="https://www.btselem.org/video-channel/camera-project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">B’Tselem Camera Project Archive</a></li><li><a href="https://reallifemag.com/spectral-power/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spectral Power</a> (Real Life, 8/22/17)</li><li><a href="https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/1276" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Five Broken Cameras</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/w-eizman/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eyal Weizman</a></li></ul>

Liat Berdugo: The Weaponized Camera

Emily Martinez

On this episode, James talks with Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez, a duo of activists-artists from California currently working on the Making You, Making Others project. The conversation covers the sharing economy – what is it and how it reveals the anxious substratum of neoliberal subjectivity. We also discuss the neoliberal problem of approaching one’s life as an entrepreneurial venture that one “makes”, as well as how art can provide a venue for the construction of alternative subjectivities and momentarily undo normal perception to give a glimpse of other possible realities. This was a fun one! Visit their project’s website here; view the first video from their project here. Find Emily and Liat online at Emily’s website; Liat’s website; Emily’s twitter, and Liat’s twitter. https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/makingyou-reedit.mp3 Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Ideas for interview? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. Get the mp3 of the episode here. RSS feed here. Thanks to Rocco &amp; Lizzie and to B for the music.

<p>On this episode, James talks with Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez, a duo of activists-artists from California currently working on the Making You, Making Others project. The conversation covers the sharing economy – what is it and how it reveals the anxious substratum of neoliberal subjectivity. We also discuss the neoliberal problem of approaching one’s life as an entrepreneurial venture that one “makes”, as well as how art can provide a venue for the construction of alternative subjectivities and momentarily undo normal perception to give a glimpse of other possible realities. This was a fun one!</p> <p>Visit their project’s website <a href="http://anxioustomake.ga/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>; view the first video from their project <a href="https://vimeo.com/140888522" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Find Emily and Liat online at Emily’s <a href="http://somethingnothing.me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>; Liat’s <a href="http://www.liatberdugo.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>; Emily’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Resonator11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter</a>, and Liat’s <a href="https://twitter.com/whatliat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter</a>.</p> <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/makingyou-reedit.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/makingyou-reedit.mp3</a> <p>Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Ideas for interview? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-already-podcast-episodes/id879272845" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on iTunes</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/AlwaysAlreadyOn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a>. Get the mp3 of the episode <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/makingyou-reedit.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. RSS feed <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thanks to <a href="https://rocconlizzie.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rocco &amp; Lizzie</a> and to B for the music.</p>

Interview with Emily Martinez and Liat Berdugo on art, neoliberal subjectivity, and the sharing economy – Epistemic Unruliness 4