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Red, Black, And Blind: A Discussion of Guy Debord's Unfinished Political Project And Its Acculturation
colourschool presents a screening of Jeremy Todd’s film, Dear Guy (83 minutes, 2007). A discussion lead by the artist and colourschool will follow. The feature-length film dramatizes an inward and sometimes romantically sentimental meditation on the relevance, remembrance, and acculturation of Guy Debord’s life and works. The layered histrionics of the film offer reconsiderations of identification, moral responsibility, nostalgia, and the potential of art in contemporary society.Excerpts from Debord’s memoir and fictional epistolary monologues are combined with an eclectic assortment of appropriated materials, invented leitmotifs, lecture performances, hybrid forms of the essay film, documentary, and edutainment formats.During this colourschool session, we will consider Debord’s ideological relationships with Anarchism and Socialism (whose black and red flags flew, respectively, throughout Paris during May 1968). In addition, we will discuss aspects of the self-serving ?colourblindness? (and patriarchal, paternal condescension) often associated with the movement to end capitalism/commodity culture in the post war period (despite claims of identification with so-called ?Third World Struggle? on the part of many white organic intellectuals, students, and activists of the period)
- host:
- Jeremy Todd
- date & time:
- April 23rd, 2007 at 7 pm
- location:
- 6363 Stores Road Studio 2A University of British Columbia
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Jeremy Todd is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator who often investigates cultural memory in the formation of socio-economic realities. He has has taught at ECIAD, North Island College, UBC, and the Vancouver Film School. He was the Director/Curator for the Helen Pitt Gallery and currently acts as the interim Director of the Richmond Art Gallery.
For more information on the film, go to: Dear Guy Blogspot