Marc Johnson
"What is the archive hiding? I myself wonder if there is anything I would hide if I was the archivist."
Benin, Canada, China, France, Sweden (residence), France (citizenship) °1986
research interests: animal studies, archival imagination, archival film practice, critical archival studies, critical theory, colonial archives, European heritage, expressions of marginalized identities, film-makers in the archives, film studies, historical consciousness, historicity, historiography, oral history, photographic records, sampling, visual literacy, archival activism, archival amnesty, counter-narratives archives, contested narratives, contre-histoire, liberatory archives, reparative archive
affiliation: Stockholm University of the Arts
en
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Marc Johnson, PhD candidate (2021-2025)
in performative and media-based practices
Stockholm University of the Arts
Department of Film and media
Valhallavägen 189-193, 115 53, Sweden
E: marc.johnson@uniarts.se
research
research expositions
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YuYu (01/05/2014)
Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Marc Johnson
YúYú is based on a true story of a Chinese beekeeper, who performs a rite of spring to recover the environmental balance of the Yangtze Valley in Chóngqìng, China. Throughout this journey, Shé Zuo Bīn, enters a trance with nature. -
Ultraviolet (01/05/2016)
Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Marc Johnson
A woman named Kanchana is using voodoo on scorpions in a rainforest at night in Thailand under the influence of ultraviolet lights.