Day 2 - Sat Apr 23
2:00pm
The Knot of Narrative
Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli
Rio Terra Foscarini 999/A. 30123 Venezia
Event Type:
On-site

Aziz Hazara, r e a, Brook Andrew, asinnajaq, Taarati Taiaroa, Matti Aiko, Synnøve Persen
Moderator: Wanda Nanibush
About the Artists

Aziz Hazara
Aziz Hazara (born in Wardak, Afghanistan, in 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kabul and Ghent. He works across mediums including photography, video, sound, language programming, text and multimedia installations, exploring questions of identity, memory, archive, conflict, surveillance and migration in the context of power relations, geopolitics and the panopticon. Read more

Dr. Rea Saunders
r e a’s (they/them) is an Indigenous, experimental interdisciplinary artist / curator / activist / cultural educator and creative thinker from the Gamilaraay / Wailwan / Biripi Nations of NSW. r e a is currently a post-doc research fellow at the University of Queensland. Their practise-led research extends across a thirty-year career and takes its development... Read more

Brook Andrew
Brook Andrew’s matrilineal kinship is from the kalar midday (land of the three rivers) of Wiradjuri, and Ngunnawal on his mother’s father’s line, both Aboriginal nations of Australia, and paternally Celtic. He is an artist and scholar who is driven by the collisions of intertwined narratives, often emerging from the mess of the “Colonial Hole,” and... Read more

Asinnajaq
Asinnajaq is from Inukjuak, Nunavik and lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work includes filmmaking, writing and curating. She co-created Tilliraniit, a three day festival celebrating Inuit art and artists. Asinnajaq wrote and directed Three Thousand (2017) a short sci-fi documentary. She co-curated Isuma’s show in the ‘Canadian’ pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She was long... Read more

Taarati Taiaroa
Taarati Taiaroa (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Kotimana) is an independent curator, researcher and artist based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. She holds Masters degrees in both Fine Arts and Museums and Cultural Heritage. Her work over the past 10 years has focused on site-responsive sculpture, Māori art exhibition histories and the ethics of collaborative practice. As a participant in... Read more

Matti Aikio
Matti Aikio is a Sámi visual artist from the Finnish side of the Sápmi. He has a background in Sámi reindeer herding culture. He holds an MA in contemporary art from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art. Aikio’s art has been exhibited in various countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He works with mixed media, photography,... Read more

Synnøve Persen
As a painter and a poet, she often uses the northern landscape as a metaphor, bothbecause this occurs natural to her and because the connection between culture and naturecreates a poetic room through the animism term. These kind of associations towardslandscape, help introduce a form of space in the art works; subjective impressions ofscenarios and moods... Read more