This is the archival page of THE VOID | Tactical Video #2: Girl Theory – Stream Archive. This hybrid event took place at the TV studios of the Amsterdam Applied Science University on the 14th of March 2024 (14:30-18:00).
Inspired by the production and distribution methods of television, with the Tactical Video (T.V.) series we want to explore the possibilities of online video streaming to create regular events. Rather than depicting events, with this series of broadcasts THE VOID will manufacture events. Bringing back the ambitions of tactical media, during these broadcasts video becomes a space for gathering, making alliances, conspiring, and creating networks of solidarity. This hybrid space is open for monthly collaborations with activists, researchers, and artists interested in exploring the tactical possibilities of video.
This second broadcast was all about 💅girly things💅: 😭sad girls✨, 🧨silly girls💎, 🌀girlbrain🔮, 💝coquette🎀, 💓femcels🧸, 🥺kawaii militarization😠, and 👯♀️girlbosses💀✨. Moderated by Chloë Arkenbout, featuring interviews and discussions with Mariana Fernández, Lisa Federmesser, Noura Tefeche, Jade Poolen, Mela Miekus, Mita Medri, Morgane Billuart on how GIRL has taken over the internet.
T.V. Program
- [15:00] Intro by T.V. Team
- [15:15] Tactical Media Room x BDS
- [16:00] Cocktail Hour with Noura Tafeche by Mariana Fernández and Liza Federmesser
- [16:50] Girl Theory Panel with Jade Poolen, Mela Miekus, and Mita Medri
- [17:40] Book Launch: Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed by Morgane Billuart
- [18:20] UKRAiNATV Bridge
- […] Music Vibes by Power Switch
Full Episode
Intro by T.V. Team
Tactical Media Room x BDS
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity. Israel is occupying and colonising Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the BDS call urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law.BDS is now a vibrant global movement made up of unions, academic associations, churches and grassroots movements across the world. Since its launch in 2005, BDS is having a major impact and is effectively challenging international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.
Cocktail Hour with Noura Tafeche by Mariana Fernández and Liza Federmesser
Mariana Fernández is an artist, writer and researcher working at the intersection of language, media and technology. She leads the ARIAS Artificial Worldsresearch group and is part of the Visual Methodologies Collective at the HvA and a fellow at the Algorithmic Cultures group at the Sandberg Institute.
Liza Federmesser is an artist, writer, and creative consultant specialising in fashion and its context. She is the creator and editor-in-chief of BAGMAG- a teen magazine for adult readers curious about fashion, culture and ideas.
Noura Tefeche is a visual artist and an independent scholar working in between enclyclopedic-themed drawings, installations, neologisms, laboratories and research on the subject of new media studies, philosophy of language, digital micro-cultures’ aestehtics and visual representation of speculative theories.
Girl Theory Panel with Jade Poolen, Mela Miekus, and Mita Medri
Jade Poolen is a curator and art historian, currently working as a junior curator at Museum Krona. She is interested in (researching) photography in the digital age and feminism, either as separate subjects or both at the same time.
Mela Miekus is currently a curator in training at the Stedelijk Museum, completing her master’s in Curating Art and Cultures (UvA). She is interested in new media art, internet aesthetics, and questions relating to identity and community formations.
Mita Medri is currently completing her Master’s degree in Design Cultures (VU). She has a background in cultural analysis and is interested in the study of medial characters, the digitally designed self, identity formation and gender performance.
Book Launch: Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed by Morgane Billuart
Morgane Billuart is a French writer and visual artist. She completed her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and also pursued education at the Cooper Union in New York. Currently, she holds a research position at the Institute of Network Cultures and is enrolled in the MA Cross-Disciplinary Strategies programme in Vienna. In an era dominated by digital culture, the enthusiasm for DIY internet philosophies, and the proliferation of self-help seminars, her distinctive approach seeks to shed light on the contemporary dynamics of faith and belief formation. Her work consistently grapples with these profound themes, intricately intertwined with her identity as a woman, prompting contemplation on the roles of bodies in reshaping our comprehension of the technocratic and digital landscapes that encompass us. Morgane just published her new book Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed: Inquiries in Female Health Technologies with Set Margins’.
UKRAiNATV Bridge
UKRAiNATV is an experimental, collective and cross-sectoral project in the field of media culture. It deals with new relational strategies and new HYBRiD production forms in the field of hybrid PRESENCE. It’s an Internet TV station specialized in building live audiovisual bridges, a multi-channel streaming hub, recording studio and glocal network, all at once. And last but not least a group of people…
THE VOID is a research project on tactical video and an audiovisual publishing venue for practice-based research. Hybridity and collectivity are essential for the way THE VOID functions: we propose to reframe modes of media production into collective acts of broadcasting. By setting up hybrid pop-up streaming studios, we merge production, distribution and archiving into a single event. In order to practice audio-visual criticality, our streams display the on-site social and technical infrastructure with all its glitches. We see our hybrid pop-up studios as tactical video: an occasion to pollute online spaces with offline encounters and, vice versa, to rearrange how we physically exist together to create new ways of inhabiting a stagnating online media landscape.