Projects
A fading public space: Coventry Ritz cinema
funded by the British Academy
Exploring different collaborative methods for engaging with complex histories and futurities through in-habitation of (public) space, voice, sound, colour, stone and paper are called upon. Menace, melancholia and every day practice move as layered textures in concurrence and tension.
This project has released a film titled Cinema III (2009/9mins) made by Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma and produced with Ioanna Karavela in a close collaborative relationship with sound artist Shervin Shaeri, cinematographers Des & Tom Seal, technical paper artist Antoinette Brown, film editor Domina Favata, as well as the voices of community activists Jitey Samra, Erskine Howell and Ann Small; each of whom have differing intimate relationships to the cinema which has sat as a ruin for over twenty years, is due for demolition and was at one time a thriving South Asian cinema, owned by forty shareholders in the post-war period.
Cinema III to be screened at RIBA on Saturday 11 July at the Visuality/Materiality conference.
Noise of the Past
Screening of Unravelling - A film by Kuldip Powar, with original score by Nitin Sawhney
Performance of Post-Colonial War Requiem – composed by Francis Silkstone
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Les Back, Live Sociology: Practising Social Research with New Media
ESRC, Research Development Initiative
January 2005 - December 2008
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Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting
Photographic Exhibition
Goldsmiths, University of London
October 2006 - May 2007
> Responding to the Exhibition - 30 May 2007
Nirmal Puwar, Working with Private Media Materials in the Public Realm
A collaboration between the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, Coventry University and the Methods Lab at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths.
AHRC Research Workshops: Museums and Galleries
June 2006 - April 2007
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