Title: Colonial Infrastructures Worksession with Yasmine Boudiaf and film screening with Riar Rizaldi
Title: Colonial Infrastructures Worksession with Yasmine Boudiaf and film screening with Riar Rizaldi, Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Tessa Mars
Date: 2023-10-27
Category: news
Tags: event, workshop
@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ On this day we will be joined by creative technologist and researcher Yasmine Bo
In the afternoon we will interrogate themes from the presentation using 2D Listening Structures Yasmine developed as tools for collective imagining. As ideas travel through these structures, the nature of these ideas changes, with the output determined in the commons.
Our worksession will close with the open screening of selection of artist films that respond to themes of the day. We will share artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi's 'Fossilis' and more films TBA.
Our worksession will close with the open screening of selection of artist films that respond to themes of the day. We will share artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi's 'Fossilis' and 'How Many _____ Does It Take?' by Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Tessa Mars.
*"What separates the Earth, mind, body and machines? 'Probably nothing' argued a future archaeologist.*
@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ Yasmine is an Algerian creative technologist and researcher based in London. She
Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. He works predominantly with the medium of moving images and sound, both in the black-box of cinema settings as well spatial presentation as installation.
Simnikiwe Buhlungu, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is currently based in Amsterdam, where she recently completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie. She holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand in Joburg. Through her solo work, and the collective, Title in Transgression, which she co-founded, her practice navigates personal, trans-generational and socio-historical narratives through print and text-based mediums that often take sensory, video, sonic and installation-based forms.
Tessa Mars (1985) is a Haitian visual artist born and raised in Port-au-Prince. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at Rennes 2 University in France in 2006 after which she returned to live and work in Haiti. Tessa Mars is an Alumn of the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (2020-2022). She currently resides in Puerto Rico.
The worksession is organised by amy pickles and Sofia Boschat-Thorez.
[alt text] poster is a collage of scanned shells, a diagram of how an ear works, graphic representation of database including the terms ‘user’ and ‘system administrator’, and two of Yasmine Boudiaf’s listening structures; ‘epistemologies’ and ‘deep fissures’. The title colonial infrastructures is written on the top, overlayed twice in pairs. Every layer of the collage has transparency and their colours are inverted.
