Unearthing. In Conversation is an attempt to come to terms with violent pasts, to find expressions for the unspeakable. Working with photographs that Paul Schebesta (1887-1967), Austrian-Czech missionary, writer and ethnographer, took in what is nowadays the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński’s work deals with the violent history of archival material and the trauma of colonization. Bringing to the forefront the haunting qualities of colonialism she engages in an uncanny dialogue that negotiates strategies of representation, the reproduction of specific ways of looking, and the trauma of being made other in the here and now, while at the same time problematizing strategies of artistic research.
• Performer and Director: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
• Camera: Sunanda Mesquita
• Sound & Light: Nick Prokesch
• Director’s Assistant: Liesa Kovacs
• Distributer: sixpack film, Vienna
• Collection: mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
• Vancouver – International Film Festival (2018)
• Osnabrück – European Media Art Festival (2018)
• Diagonale, Graz (2018)
• International Film Festival Rotterdam
• PACT – Pan African Cinema Today (2018)
• Dortmund / Köln – Internationales Frauenfilmfestival (2017)
• Kassel Dokumentarfilm & Videofest (2017)
• Hauntopia/What if, mumok, Vienna, June 8, 2016
• Points of Contact, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, December 3, 2016
• Unearthing. In Conversation (2017) by Renate Lorenz for sixpack film
• Review International Filmfestival Rotterdam (2018) by Matt Turner for Art Agenda
Working with photographs that Paul Schebesta, Austrian-Czech missionary, writer, and ethnographer, took in the former Belgian Congo (nowadays Democratic Republic of the Congo), Unearthing. In Conversation (2017, 13’) deals with violent histories of archival material and the trauma of colonization. Bringing to the forefront the haunting qualities of colonialism the artist engages in an uncanny dialogue that negotiates strategies of representation, the reproduction of specific ways of looking and the trauma of being made other in the here and now.
• Performer and Director: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
• Camera: Sunanda Mesquita
• Sound & Light: Nick Prokesch
• Director’s Assistant: Liesa Kovacs
• Distributer: sixpack film, Vienna
• Collection: mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
• Vancouver – International Film Festival (2018)
• Osnabrück – European Media Art Festival (2018)
• Diagonale, Graz (2018)
• International Film Festival Rotterdam
• PACT – Pan African Cinema Today (2018)
• Dortmund / Köln – Internationales
• Frauenfilmfestival (2017)
• Kassel Dokumentarfilm & Videofest (2017)
• Hauntopia/What if, mumok, Vienna, June 8, 2016
• Points of Contact, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, December 3, 2016
• Unearthing. In Conversation (2017) by Renate Lorenz for sixpack film
• Review International Filmfestival Rotterdam (2018) by Matt Turner for Art Agenda
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