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January 2016 Public Program
SA SA BASSAC is pleased to collaborate with numerous partners to present the following eventsin relation to our current exhibition Landscape of time by Vandy Rattana, which runs throughFebruary 6, 2016. Full information is listed below. All events are free to all publics, in Khmer andEnglish languages.
SYMPOSIUM + EXHIBITION
Cartography of Memory + Shifting Geographies
January 12, 8.30AM – 5:00PM @ Bophana Audiovisual Resource CenterJanuary 13, 8.30AM – 5.00PM @ Royal University of Fine Arts / RUFALECTURE
Digital Archives and Forensic Aesthetics in Contemporary Art by Brianne Cohen
Presented by “Vetika Brovoat Selapak: Art History Forum”
January 15th, 6:00PM @ Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
IN CONVERSATION
Artist's choice screening
January 30, 6:00 – 7.30PM @ SA SA BASSAC

Vandy Rattana, MONOLOGUE, 2015. Image courtesy the artist and SA SA BASSAC.

SYMPOSIUM + EXHIBITION
Cartography of Memory + Shifting Geographies
January 12, 8.30AM – 5:00PM @ Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
January 13, 8.30AM – 5.00PM @ Royal University of Fine Arts / RUFA
Detailed schedule: http://bophana.org/
The symposium aims to consider repressed history and its consequences in an historical,
anthropological and esthetic perspective. Several areas of research are privileged: the role ofimages and archives for the understanding of the past; the memory of places and territories; theemergent artistic scene, in particular ways of appropriating a past that returns.
Collaboration with SA SA BASSAC includes an artist talk by Khvay Samnang (January 12,Bophana), a talk by Erin Gleeson “Variations on the body: thinking memorial in the practice ofSvay Sareth” (January 13, RUFA), and the exhibition of Vandy Rattana and Khvay Samnang’s
work in the affiliated exhibition Shifting Geographies at Bophana.
About the Organizers
Cartography of Memory and Shifting Geographies is a collaboration between Soko Phay
(University of Paris 8), Patrick Nardin (University of Paris 8) and Suppya Hélène Nut (University ofCologne/INALCO) in partnership with Bophana Centre and Royal University of Fine Arts, PhnomPenh, Labex Arts H2H, University of Paris Lumières, Equipe « Esthétique, Pratique et histoire desarts » - Labo AIAC / University of Paris 8.

Effi & Amir, The Vanishing Vanishing-Point, 2015. Screen shot courtesy www.effiandamir.net

LECTURE
Digital Archives and Forensic Aesthetics in Contemporary Art by Brianne Cohen
Presented by “Vetika Brovoat Selapak: Art History Forum”
January 15th, 6:00PM @ Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
This talk considers new forms of digitally based documentation in recent artwork. The speakerexamines the concept of "forensic aesthetics" in relation to two pieces: Sarah Vanagt and Katrien
Vermiere's The Wave (2013) and Effi & Amir's The Vanishing Vanishing-Point (2015). In the firstfilm, the Belgian duo (a filmmaker and photographer respectively) animate together 32,000 digitalstills in order to document the recent exhumation of nine men massacred by the dictator Franco
right after the Spanish Civil War. The end result is a stunningly alive picture of the land and how it
has been scarred. In the second film, Effi & Amir (an Israeli pair living in Brussels) use digital
imaging techniques such as Google Earth and Google Street View in order to document the deathof a Mediterranean olive tree that was transplanted to the Brussels EU neighborhood and could
not survive the inhospitable winters there. Both artworks use and analyze digital-archival materials
in order to expose the State’s culpability in creating long-lasting socio-environmental violence.
About Brianne Cohen
Brianne Cohen received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. Her
current projects include a book manuscript, Europe in Common: From Spectatorship to Collectivity
in Contemporary Art, which analyzes artistic visions of a changing European identity based uponintercultural, translocal affiliations, with a close look at the practices of Harun Farocki, ThomasHirschhorn, and the artist collective Henry VIII’s Wives. Her broader research and teachinginterests include postcolonial theory, global migration, ecological aesthetics, state violence, and anunderlying commitment to foregrounding how a symbolic-visual field shapes processes ofsociopolitical exclusion or collectivization. A collection of essays that she has co-edited with
Alexander Streitberger, ThePhotofilmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and VisualCulture (University of Leuven and Cornell Presses), will be published in January 2016.
About “Vetika Brovoat Selapak: Art History Forum”
Vetika Brovoat Selapak: Art History Forum is a platform for meeting and talking about Cambodian
and other art histories with primarily Cambodian audience in Phnom Penh. It presents an ongoingseries of educational and scholarly events, in the form of lectures, discussions, workshops, orsymposia, in every one to two months.
E: arthistoryforumpp@gmail.com
W: facebook.com/arthistoryforumAlain Resnais, Night and Fog (1955) Screen shot Courtesy the Criterion Collection
IN CONVERSATION
Artist's choice screening
January 30, 6:00 – 7.30PM @ SA SA BASSAC
An evening with screenings and conversation between Vandy Rattana's Landscape of time (2015)
and one of his inspirations Night and Fog (1955) by Alain Resnais. Made 60 years apart, bothworks address the aftermaths of genocide - Rensais' the The Holocaust and Vandy's the Khmer
Rouge regime. Their approach, processes, scripts, and images have both shared and divergent
treatments. The evening's event will screen both works in full, introduced and followed by dialogue
surrounding notions of engaging with the past through relationships between script/narration andimage. What are differences and impacts of documented events, found footage, and "post-event"documentation of location and human subject? Such a conversation between works suggests
the importance of different kinds of artistic reflection in the aftermath of trauma. Facilitated byRobert Macdonald, Intern, SA SA BASSAC / MA student, Curatorial Studies, University of Sydney.

Vandy Rattana, Landscape of time, 2015. Image courtesy the artist and SA SA BASSAC.

CURRENT EXHIBITION
Landscape of time by Vandy Rattana
December 17, 2015 - February 6, 2016
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONFuturographies: Cambodia-USA-FranceFebruary 11 - March 26, 2016
SA SA BASSAC
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00AM - 6:00PMLocation: SA SA BASSAC #182E Sothearos Blvd. Phnom Penh
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