The
films make visible what is absent from documentation and refer to the gaps in the transmission of memory, testimony or kept
historical material. The artists apply a specific embodied practice as a way of closing the distance between one’s own body
to the body of the archive through dance, touch, text, juxtaposition, cuts, collage or reading. With these methods, historical
and archival research is combined with a “critical fabulation” to make productive sense of gaps and silences within an archive.
Films by Alessandra Ferrini, Onyeka Igwe, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, and Maryam Tafakory.
Overall duration:
ca. 120 min., OV (partially with w engl. Subs)
Detailed Program:Onyeka Igwe,
Her Name in My Mouth,
2017, 06:02 min.
Maryam Tafakory,
Irani Bag, 2021, 8 min.
Alessandra Ferrini,
Sight Unseen, HD
video, 2019, 18:47 min.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński,
Unearthing. In Conversation, 2017, 13 min.
Onyeka Igwe,
a so-called archive, 2020, 19:34 min.
Event in English. With an introduction by the curators
and a conversation with Onyeka Igwe.
Curated by Mai Ling, Georgia Holz, and Stephanie Misa within the context
of the
INTRA
project „Anonymity and Absence – Archival Sites of Speculation“ at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
