MUSTAFA EMIN BÜYÜKCOşKUN
How moving images move us?
This project aims to explore the affective aspect of video archives from the 90’s at the intersection of human rights, videography and image regimes. It imagines the 90’s not as a time span but as a global space, in which moving images of violence and struggle have been produced and widely moved around. Rejecting the reproduction of nostalgic sentiments, the proposal seeks to develop a new, collective methodology for engaging with video archives, from a transdisciplinary perspective, embedded with historiography, ethnography, semiotics, and informatics. The project aligns with a decolonizing perspective, questioning authorship and urging the need to give agency back to those represented in images. The proposed speculative process allows individuals who have been imaged to negotiate, tag, index, and interact with their own representations, contributing to a more empowering and emancipatory relationship with the archive.
