After a series of studio visits, I was invited to give a talk about my practice, a short talk that Yann invited us to base on a image, a movie or whatever could anchor the "I presentation" into the residency programme and exhibition preparations. I chose La Libertad by Laura Huertas Millan, and quoted other examples such as Freedom by Maggie Nelson, the octopus by Chuz Martinez

"While I was thinking about which film would be the most meaningful to link the HISK project to inform about my practice and my interest in the arts, the one that appeared was quite evident. So this proposal is one possibility to bridging our common interests, finding communality between different practices and temporalities. In my practice as a programmer, curator, text worker,  as an educator, since ever, more recently as an educator, my interest encompasses themes such as language, memory, ecology and focuses on less object-related results than hybrid and often-research based practices which disseminate their essence through moving and still-images, performances, lectures, and of course books and texts.  

Tonight I’d like to base my participation on a work by Laura Huertas Millan. Laura Huertas Millans is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist, whose practice stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art and research. Laura lives in Paris and holds a PhD about Ethnographic Fictions.Huertas Millan is part of artistic, research, and curatorial collective Counter-Encounters (with Onyeka Igwe and Rachael Rakes) on critical anthropology and the aesthetics and politics of the encounter. Entwining ethnography, ecology, fiction and historical enquiries, her moving image work engages with strategies of survival, resistance and resilience against violence. her films are often immersive, they propose embodied and emotional experiences where aesthetics and politics are linked together."