Ram Krishna Ranjan
Doctoral Student
The Film, Photography and Literary CompositionAbout Ram Krishna Ranjan
I am a practice-based researcher and visual artist. I am currently a PhD candiadte at Valand Academy. My educational background is in Economics, Media and Cultural Studies and Fine Art. My longstanding areas of interests are decoloniality, migration, gentrification, memory and nation, and the intersectionality of caste, class, and gender. Through my moving-images based practice, I try to build conversations around place-specific issues of social, economic, and political justice.
About my PhD research
Taking the Bengal Famine of 1943 as a site-event, my practice-based research aims to further and experiment with epistemologies and ontologies of expressions that emerge from the space of subalternity and investigate the possibilities and limits of it in film practices. The main research question that underpins this research is – how do we move images (specifically filmmaking practice) towards subaltern epistemologies and ontologies? The following secondary questions situate the broader question in more specific terms: 1) how can we mobilize subalternity as both a theoretical paradigm and a methodological stance in film practices; 2) what are the ethical-political and creative challenges in undertaking such a project; 3) in what ways, while acknowledging the multiple incommensurabilities any subaltern research project produces, we can address those ethical-political and creative challenges?
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Contracts of making, viewing and listening: Researching in and through
films
Ram Krishna Ranjan
International Journal of Film and Media Arts - 2020-01-01 -
A thing that is or may be
chosen
Ram Krishna Ranjan, Kjell Caminha
Decolonising Pedagogy: Exploring processes in image-making Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg - 2019-01-01 -
Caste(ing) shadows on Distant
Thunder
Ram Krishna Ranjan
Post-Photography: Histories, Geographies and Contemporary Challenges (Hosted by Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg) - 2019-01-01 -
Contracts of making, viewing and
listening
Ram Krishna Ranjan
1) Research Pavilion #3 Venice 2019, Venice Biennale (hosted by Uniarts Helsinki) - 2019-05-08 2) View India, LANDSKRONA MUSEUM - 2019-06-14 - 2019-01-01 -
Cemetery
Archipelago
Mick Wilson, Birgitta Nordström, Ram Krishna Ranjan, Jyoti Mistry, Daniel Jewesbury
Research Pavilion, Sala del Camino, Campo S. Cosmo 621, Giudecca, Venice Research Catalogue: - 2019-01-01