This is a participatory workshop about the still-developing collaborative film project between media artist Rayna Teneva and anthropologist Elana Resnick. We will show footage and host discussions about the film-in-process, which centers on the still-unfinished Belene Nuclear Power Plant in Northern Bulgaria on the Danube River and its relationship to river life, women's labor, and questions of what a non-nuclear future might look like.
Organizers:
- Elana Resnick, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara,
- Rayna Teneva, Media Artist, Vienna, Austria
In discussion with:
- Oksana Sarkisova, Research Fellow at Blinken OSA Archivum; Co-founder/Head of Visual Studies Platform at CEU
- Sophia Schiller, Filmmaker and Media Artist; Co-founder of Filmwerk Kalliope
- Florence Vatan, Senior Core Fellow at IAS CEU; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of French and Italian
- Andrea Virginás, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
- Nikolai Vukov, Senior Joint Budapest Fellow at IAS CEU; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Program
Venue: CEU, Budapest, Nádor utca 15., Room 101
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome & Introduction
11:00- 12:30 SESSION 1 - Nuclearity, Motherhood, Labor, Depopulation
13:30-15:00 SESSION 2 - River, Gender, Fishing
15:20 – 16:40: SESSION 3 – Tourism, Futures, Children
16:40-17:30: SESSION 4 – Discussion about film
Image credit: Rayna Teneva