Points of Contact / Berührungspunkte

December 3, 2016, 3:00–5:30 pm
Points of Contact / Berührungspunkte

Performance and talk with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Moderated by Jannik Franzen and Cana Bilir-Meier

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński will present her performance “Unearthing” in which she explores approaches to colonial photographs: “there is a connection, something that clings to me – the immediacy of a colonial flashback. An uncanny familiarity lingers...” The following talk will also focus on her theoretical works and books like Das Unbehagen im Museum. Postkoloniale Museologie (2009, co-editor).

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is an artist and social theorist with an interest in de- and postcolonial theory and Black feminism. Her work combines photography, collages, and performances, reconstructing the making of bodies marked as Other(s) in Western society. She is interested in the past, present, and future of Black radical imagination.


Screening and lecture-performance with belit sağ and Cana Bilir-Meier
Moderated by Jannik Franzen

belit sağ will talk about overarching themes in her video practice, such as images of violence and the violence of images. She will also speak about the censorship of her recent video “Ayhan and Me” (2016) in Turkey. Afterwards there will be a lecture-performance with Cana Bilir-Meier about their work in the exhibition “search form”.

belit sağ is a videographer and visual artist from Turkey based in Amsterdam. She recently finished a residency programme at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. During 2014/2015 she was in residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She studied mathematics in Turkey and art in The Netherlands. Her video background is rooted in alternative video activist/artist movements in Ankara and Istanbul, where she co-initiated groups such as VideA, Karahaber, and Videoccupy.

Supporting programme of the exhibition search form.