Art that Moves Session 2

Art that Moves explores the increased impact in conditions of global migration and interdependence; how this continually reshapes art history and criticism, art practices and their dissemination. Exploring approaches to the processes of making artworks, films and exhibitions through a translocational, intersectional lens, we investigate the more complex framing of identities and community-forming that are hard to pin down. ‘People who move,’ whether these are ‘migrants’, mobile citizens, or those with plural cultural positionings, offer the opportunity to question the fixity of art institutional systems of patronage on which we depend.
Art that Moves looks for alternatives, finding them in the practices of the contributors themselves, inviting artist-led networks in curating, artists and other creative disciplines to join our forum.
Session 2, Day 2, 21st April
Central Saint Martins, UAL, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA
Room E002
Image caption 'We are Magic. We are real #3", 2021, performance by artist, Jeannette Ehlers
17.30-18.00 - Film screening: House of History by artist, Parwana Haydar.
Based on a collection of archival material, objects and their memories; an auto-biographical narrative of the artist in her studio, phone conversations with her parents, stories both personal and on the history of Afghanistan. Haydar sorts through footage, nostalgic objects, textiles and videos, piecing together a fragmentary portrait of Afghan history. Animated images on the studio’s materials and walls, bring these incomplete histories to life. Parwana Haydar is a filmmaker and curator, a graduate of Other Cinemas film school and of South London Gallery's, Creative Film School. Her artistic practice is driven by the personal and the contemplative, the visual aesthetic of diasporic experience. She is a member of the Afghan Visual Arts and History Collective (AVAH) an independent curatorial research collective and multimedia platform that gathers, collects and curates art coming from Afghanistan and its Diaspora.
18.15-19.15 - Jeannette Ehlers in conversation with Karen Alexander
Jeannette Ehlers is a Danish and Trinidadian artist based in Copenhagen. Ehlers’ practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Her work explores decolonial hauntings and the possibility of empowerment and healing, serving as a reminder that history is not confined to the past but is firmly grounded in the present. Ehlers has participated in numerous group shows internationally, including the most recent, Prospect 6 in New Orleans, the 15th Havana Biennial, Ocean at Louisiana, Humlebæk, as well as Black Ancient Futures in MAAT in Lisbon, 2024. She is currently a PhD fellow at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Copenhagen. Artist’s talk followed by ‘in conversation’ with Karen Alexander. Image: We Are Magic We are Real #3 (2021)
19.30 -21.00 - Film screening & discussion: Transformation, 40 min’s, documentary by Director, Ganka Tretiak, Producer: Artem Burba BRB Production, Ukraine. Support: Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
Transformation explores the metamorphosis of civilians who chose to become soldiers in Ukraine’s war. Musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and cultural practitioners left their civilian life to take up arms, voicing their shared experience of life at war. The film examines war as a path of profound psychological transformation. The film seeks return paths, including rehabilitation at the Superhumans Center, where bodies and identities are rebuilt alluding to Ukraine’s future. Transformation explores Ukrainian’s new subjectivity - ethical, vulnerable and alive reflecting on humanity and creative spirit under extreme conditions. Followed by a post screening talk between the director and Anke Hennig, German philosopher, and Ganka Tretiak who is a prominent Ukrainian cultural figure, film director, and curator.

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