Irit Rogoff and Massimiliano Mao Mollona on freethought collective and "spectral infrastructure"

A conversation between freethought members Massimiliano Mao Mollona (writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, UoL) and Irit Rogoff (writer, teacher, curator, and organizer; professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, UoL), held on 16 April 16 2021. On their own practice; the creation of freethought collective (in 2012) as a politically motivated drive to collectivize thinking and study; and the concept/research trajectory they define as "spectral infrastructure". freethought convenes and drives the research trajectory of the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice. More information: www.bakonline.org/fellowship/2021-2022/ -- References cited: 11:50 Archives of the Festival of Arts Shiraz-Persepolis, curated by Vali Mahlouji 12:10 Archive of the Partisan Café in London, assembled by Mike Berlin 12:30 Anecdoted Archive of Exhibitions Lives, part of the Assembled Archives project initiated by Nora Sternfeld and Irit Rogoff 14:28 The End of Oil, curated by Mao Mollona for 2016 Bergen Assembly, including the films Delete Beach (directed by Phil Collins) and Oilers (produced by Mao Mollona and artist Anne Marthe Dyvi) 20:45 Haunting presences of the work of Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, and Kobena Mercer, amongst others. 24:30 The work of Saidiya Hartman; i.e. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals, 2019 24:40 Walid Raad and the creation of archives 29:25 Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ concept of the sociology of absences 30:15 The notion of coolitude, forged by poet Khal Torabully 30:52 Denise Ferreira da Silva 31:17 Elizabeth Povinelli and the Karrabing Film Collective

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