FEELING STILL READING GROUP & SCREENING: FORGETTING IS THE SUN (2023) BY ROUZBEH SHADPEY

9 Jul 2024 7-9pm

Credit: Photo: Image of text: Nursing a Plague: nurses’ perspectives on their work during the United Kingdom HIV/ AIDS crisis, 1981– 96 Tommy Dickinson, Nathan Appasamy, Lee P. Pritchard and Laura Savidge.

Overview

For this event Cubitt Curatorial Fellow Seán Elder brings together texts for our ongoing reading group sessions which will be preceded by a screening of Rouzbeh Shadpey’s Forgetting is the Sun (2023).

The work juxtaposes original footage from the artist of his grandmother—who silently counts a tespih in the face of a medical memory test being administered to her by an acousmatic narrator—with borrowed footage from two essay films which challenge state sanctioned regimes of remembering: the Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1962).

As with all Cubitt events, this screening is free. However, the artist and curator encourage attendees to make a donation to a charity of their choice in support of Palestine.

Photo: Still from Forgetting is the Sun (2023) Rouzbeh Shadpey

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