Mimesis Magazine

Thanks everyone for a great launch for Mimesis last Friday at the Lab !

And like the sand insecurities of warring political factions absorb and distracted the narrator from his gazing, observing, ruminating on the history of this eternal city.

This is a future Alexandria, where the water hyacinth, introduced during British colonial rule has taken over the Nile, and mythical animals are roaming the streets. Desert sand is constantly threatening to envelop the city. A

In Lost Gazes a text is retrieved from the sediments of history. An unknown narrator describes a changing landscape, both political and environmental.

For Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let's Spoil! we present a speculative short story by Mohamed Abdelkarim.

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Join us on May 2nd, at the Lab for a en evening of screenings and performances including a screening by Ryat Yezbick.
Image: Still from ABC News Report on the Columbine Mass shooting in 1999

For Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let's Spoil! we present an essay by Ryat Yezbick on the genesis of media images depicting mass shooting in the US.
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Tatum Howey is a writer and doctoral candidate based in Los Angeles whose work circles around the political implications and potentials of risk. Both their writing and scholarship explore the de-individuation of risk, where risk is understood as the vulnerability of being in relation.

The essay is as much an investigation of the political stakes of contemporary research based films, as it is an account of the parallel development of cinematic technology and oil. Each of the works deals with the history of oil and what it means to work with its archival images today.

Join us on May 2nd, at the Lab SF for a en evening of screenings and performances including a reading by Tatum Howey.

For Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let's Spoil! we present Tatum Howey with THE TROUBLE WITH THE ARCHIVE. Analyzing the video works of Sanaz Sohrabi, Miranda Pennell, and Onyeka Igwe, Howey examines films that seek to intervene in the legacies of corporate petro archives particularly of that of #bp.

Mushaandja analyzes themes and structure of this award-winning feature against the background of artistic works coming out of Namibia on the memory of history, particularly in dealing with Germany’s genocide on the Nama, Ovaherero and San people during its violent colonial rule.

For Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let's Spoil! we present an essay by Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja about the film Under the Hanging Tree (2023) by Perivi Katjavivi
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Join us Friday, May 2, 7pm @ the LAB SF for launch of Mimesis Magazine’s new issue “Let’s Spoil!”. Performing Nina Sarnelle, Ryat Yezbick, Jasmine Orpilla, Howey Tatum, Agitproposition Collective (Germany) + more. Curated & edited Lior Shamriz, Neha Choksi. www.thelab.org

With Mimesis issue #2 Let’s Spoil!, we turn practices of recycling, salvaging, replicating, appropriating, reappropriating, regurgitating, and remediating as they are used in film and performance works.

The first installment is out:
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Launch of Issue #2: Let’s Spoil!
Screening @ cittipunkt
Brüsseler Straße 36A Berlin
08.12 at 17:00

Our first installment (out of three) presents a screening of films by contributing artists Asher Hartman, Nina Sarnelle, Ryat Yezbick, Mohamed Abdelkarim, & more

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