[csaa-forum] Screening + Artist Talk SOPHIE SERBER 1/10 10am NZT

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora

Please join us on Tuesday 1st October, between 10am-11.30am (check your timezone here<https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=2193733,5,2191562,2643743,2147714,6173331&h=2193733&date=2024-9-15&sln=10-11&hf=1>) in Burns 4 and on Zoom (register here<https://forms.gle/By5pW8PdNpEh96Rk8> for zoom link) to watch Sophie Serber's short film 'Success Breeds Success, Or You Need To Be A Friend To Get A Friend'. Sophie will join us on Zoom after the screening to discuss her work. Please circulate with other interested parties.

Sophie's film is currently exhibited at Mery Gates<https://www.instagram.com/p/C-q3Pr2yIHR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==> in Brooklyn, New York. Please email me if you would like access to the press kit.

This is the first screening 'Success Breeds Success ...' in the antipodes.

'Success Breeds Success, Or You Need To Be A Friend To Get A Friend'
Success Breeds Success is a series of works that address the production and negation of consumptive desire in the context of digital pornography. Serber draws from her experience working as a performer in the porn industry — a period during which she began to conceptualise pornographic proliferation as akin to a cellular process of productive self-cannibalisation.

The video cuts together fragments of porn videos in which she has performed, and uses tracking technology to extract bodily movements to apply a digital mask over the figures. Alongside the extracted scenes, she relays her own experiences via a voice-over spoken by an animated figure of an apoptotic cell. This work examines how our relation with porn mirrors forms of disordered consumption in other spheres of life, and the roles digital platforms and their feedback loops play in eliciting, predicting and thwarting desire.

In an accompanying publication, Serber draws from a database of correspondence, Tweets, and web analytics from her time as a porn performer to explore the abstraction and manipulation of desire, drawing analogies with biological processes. The biological perspective engages with the topic of digital porn consumption to question the limits of containment when it comes to desire and the self.

About Sophie Serber
Sophie lives in Amsterdam. Her experiments with thresholds of certainty stem from an interest in the correlation between belief and denial, and how that parallels the courtship between disgust and seduction. In all her work, she's into notions of control of the self, within broader societal structures and power dynamics. Her work explores the interplay between control, identity, and dissociation and how they can be reconciled within an individual existing in this world.


Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>



Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20240924/a9750a08/attachment-0001.htm>