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Dr Becca Voelcker

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Dr Becca Voelcker

Position

Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies

Department

Art

Email

b.voelcker (@gold.ac.uk)

Global political cinemas; ecofeminism; colonial-capital-climate entanglements; Japan; diasporas; land.

Becca Voelcker writes on art, film, and visual culture, particularly in relation to politics and ecology. She earned her PhD at Harvard University in 2021, writing a global history of eco-political film. She has lived and worked in Britain, the US and Japan. Becca contributes to BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking, Film Comment Podcast and the collective mould.earth. Her writing has appeared in Screen, MIRAJ, Sight & Sound, Frieze, Film Comment, and Art Asia Pacific.

Academic qualifications

  • Harvard University, PhD: Film and Visual Studies with Secondary Field in Anthropology 2021
  • Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, Graduate Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan 2015
  • University of Cambridge (King’s College), MPhil: Screen Media and Cultures (Distinction) 2013
  • Goldsmiths College, University of London, BA Hons: Art Practice (First Class) 2012

Teaching and supervision

Areas of supervision for prospective doctoral students include: global political cinemas; ecofeminism; colonial-capital-climate entanglements; Japan; diasporas; land; artist moving image; documentary.

Publications and research outputs

Article

Vélez Serna, Maria A; Keilbach, Judith; Pabiś-Orzeszyna, Michał; Pape, Toni; Pedregal, Alejandro; ap Rhys, Iago and Voelcker, Becca. 2024. Enough: Reading notes from media studies. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, ISSN 2213-0217

Voelcker, Becca. 2023. For a World to Come: Designing the Future Amidst Climate Crisis. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 27(4), pp. 348-356. ISSN 1359-1355

Voelcker, Becca. 2023. Climate, Capital, and Colonialism: A Congolese Perspective. Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, 1, pp. 55-65. ISSN 2832-4641

Book Section

Voelcker, Becca. 2023. Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield? In: Pamila Gupta; Sarah Nuttall; Esther Peeren and Hanneke Stuit, eds. Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51-63. ISBN 9783031242427

Voelcker, Becca. 2021. Landscape Theory in Post-War Japanese Cinema: Fūkeiron in Adachi Masao’s A.K.A. Serial Killer. In: Ludovic Cortade and Guillaume Soulez, eds. Penser l’espace avec le cinéma et la littérature. 10 New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9781433176289

Broadcast

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. BBC Radio 4: Thinking Allowed: Sight and Power.

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. BBC Radio 4: Introducing BBC New Generation Thinkers.

Voelcker, Becca. 2022. BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking: Slow Film and Ecology.

Conference or Workshop Item

Voelcker, Becca. 2025. 'Exhibition tour by Dr Becca Voelcker'. In: Sammy Baloji Exhibition tour by Dr Becca Voelcker. Goldsmiths CCA, United Kingdom 9 January 2025.

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. 'Three Conversations on Landmarks'. In: AHRC Being Human Festival: Landmarks Late. Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, United Kingdom 7 November 2024.

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. 'Postwar Japan, nuclear politics, and Gojira'. In: A Roaring 70th: Godzilla Film Season. Japan House London, United Kingdom 18 September 2024.

Professional Activity

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Academic Research Grant.

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. BBC New Generation Thinker.

Show/Exhibition

Voelcker, Becca. 2024. Growing Food and Film: Japan and Mali. In: "Karachi Biennale", Karachi, Pakistan, 27 October - 10 November 2024.

Other

Voelcker, Becca. 2022. The Greatest Films of All Time - Becca Voelcker for Sight & Sound (BFI). Sight & Sound (BFI), London.