Goldsmiths - University of London

Nicole Wolf

Teaching

Depending upon annual arrangements I currently teach the following BA courses: ‘Modernities’, ‘The Moving Image’ and ‘The Documentary Turn’, including occasional lectures on MA and PhD programs.

Areas of supervision

I welcome dissertation proposals on any aspect of the relation between critique and the moving image, on documentary mode and experimental film and art practices, on new constituencies and evolving questions within current global film and art networks, as well as research engaged in postcolonial theory, feminist theory, anthropology of art and aesthetics, film/ art and ethnography.

Research interests

My current research interests derive from my academic training in anthropology, film studies and postcolonial theory as well as my film curatorial and earlier filmmaking practice. Many theoretical questions concerning documentary mode and experimental filmmaking have been inspired by my extensive research in India, which was recently extended to Pakistan. My interest in the productivity of individual and collective filmmaking practice, in the moving image and how it occurs in cinema, gallery and activist spaces, often leads to a rethinking of the political, the real, documentation, archiving, witnessing, historicity and more broadly the question of what constitutes critical intervention in any art, film or particular socio-political context. Feminist theory and politics as well as a search for queer aesthetics have been intertwined with many of those areas and with my endeavor to trace multiple histories of political and experimental filmmaking. Further, by way of looking at so called marginal histories and presents a rethinking of global networks of film and artistic practices and aesthetics is argued. I am currently completing my book with the working title “Make it Real. Documentary and other cinematic experiments by women filmmakers in India.” and I am researching for a series of curated film programs including one particular working around ideas of “No Man’s Land/ Everybody’ Land”.

Selected publications

Selected articles:

‘Weg in Berlin – Aber echt! Dokumentarisch-fiktionale Randnotizen’/  ‘Away in Berlin – Really! Documentary-fictional Side Notes’, in: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Florian Wüst (ed.), Wer sagt denn, dass Beton nicht brennt, hast Du’s probiert? Film im West-Berlin der 80er Jahre/ Who says concrete doesn’t burn, have you tried? West Berlin Film in the ’80s, Berlin: b_books 2008, p. 36-47/ p. 50-60.

‘Lovers of Life for Heterogeneous Time’ in: Identity Theft: Cultural Colonisation and contemporary Art. (ed.) Jonathan Harris, University of Liverpool and Critical Forum Tate Liverpool, 2008.

‘The import and export of knowledge in conversations or: where is my subject?’ In: Angelika Fitz, Merle Kröger, Alexandra Schneider, Dorothee Wenner (eds.) 2005. Import Export. Cultural Transfer. India, Germany, Austria. Pathas Verlag GmbH, Berlin. Distribution in India: Katha, New Delhi. pp. 216-224 (Eng.), 370 – 376 (German).

‘„Portraits of Belonging“ - Eindrücke zu Repräsentationsspielräumen und Diskursen von unabhängigen Dokumentarfilmemacherinnen in Indien’. Frauen und Film 2002, Frankfurt/ Main. pp. 99-114.

‘Choice as Concept. New Narratives in Images and Discourses of Independent Women Filmmakers in India’. Exhibition Catalogue: First Story/ Women Building New Narratives for the 21st Century. Porto 2001. p 1/14-14/14.

Selected curatorial practices:

No Man’s Land. Film program for exhibition ‘Lines of Control’, commemorating 60 years of partition of the Indian Subcontinent. Curated by arts organization and gallery Green Cardamon (London). Exhibition and Film program to take place in London, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore, Delhi.

Experimentations from India. Curated film program and Cinema talk in collaboration with Shai Heredia. Forum Expanded/ Berlin Film Festival, 11.02.2008.

Video Mumbai. Compilation of video and new media works for participation in ‘Video as urban condition’ video pool archive and exhibition at Lentos Kunstmuseum/ Museum of Modern Art Linz, 19th April to 27th May. (www.video-as.org)

Choice as Concept. New Narratives in Images and Discourses of Independent Women Filmmakers in India. Video- and Work-lounge for ‘First Story/ Women Building New Narratives for the 21st Century’. Curator Ute Meta Bauer. Porto 2001.