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.
