Salomé Lopes Coelho speaks at Linköping University

In early April, Salomé Lopes Coelho was a guest speaker at Linköping University, delivering two talks, each dedicated to a different thread of her research.

Organised by The Eco- and Bioart Lab, the first talk, Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence, examined the affordances of moving image practices in relation to extractive violence, with particular attention to lithium, drawing on film curatorial work, image-making and analysis — from experimental documentaries and investigative cinema to science communication films.

In the afternoon, Salomé delivered the Tema G Higher Seminar, Cinema as a Diffractor Shield: Transcorporeal Orientations in Experimental Film, proposing cinema as a “diffractor shield” – a material-discursive apparatus, reworked from the myth of Perseus and Medusa through feminist accounts of diffraction, that destabilises perceptual, material, and species boundaries. Tracing this across experimental films by Latin American women filmmakers, the talk developed what Salomé terms “transorientation”: an embodied acknowledgement of orientation within entangled human and other-than-human existences.