MIT’s Zones of Emergency (ZOE) project was initiated in spring, 2008, to explore emergency situations through conversations between artists, technologists, theorists, and practitioners. A collaboration between MIT Visual Arts Program and program participants, ZOE explored the scale and complexity of catastrophe and disaster scenarios through lectures and panel discussions.
Above, Amar Kanwar presents a talk entitled The Little Museum with reflections on the image that lies between sorrow and resistance. From the ZOE blog:
This exploration included extracts from different film projects such as Shrines 1991-2007, which emerges from labor and indigenous people’s resistance movements, The Torn First Pages, which emerges from the Burmese democracy movement and The Lightening Testimonies, which emerges from the search for language to understand the narratives of sexual violence in areas of conflict.
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