Presentations + Q&A
Moderated by Jonas Tinius
Artists Nora Al-Badri and Badr El Hammami trace the agency of objects, sounds, and materials. They present their works on speculative archaeology and technoheritage, circulation and return, asking how objects can be activated across analogue and digital technologies to bypass national and state narratives on heritage and memory.
Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary media artist with a German-Iraqi background. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. She was the first artist in residence at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and its Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) and was a PhD candidate there. There, she realised the two following projects : ‘Neuronal Ancestral Sculptures Series’ (images) and ‘Babylonian Vision’ (videos). Since 2009 she has collaborated with Jan Nikolai Nelles in some of her works.
Her work was featured at The New York Times, BBC, The Times, Artnet, Wired, Le Monde Afrique, Financial Times, Arte TV, The Independent, New Statesmen, Hyperallergic, Smithsonian, Al Ahram, Egypt Today, Vice, Hürriyet, Dezeen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Spiegel Online, Heise, The Boston Globe, Dezeen, Archdaily, Polska, La informacion, De Volkskrant, Gizmodo, New Scientist, Popular Science and The Verge amongst others.
*Nora Al-Badri’s projects ‘Neuronal Ancestral Sculptures Series’ (images) and ‘Babylonian Visio’ (videos) were realised within the Artist-in-residence program of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
www.nora-al-badri.de
Twitter: @noraalbadri
nora.albadri@gmail.com
Badr El-Hammami was born in 1979 in Morocco, studied in Bordeaux and Valencia, and now lives and works in Marseille and Al Hoceima – Morocco. The work of El Hammami often deals with the questions of otherness, negotiation, co-construction and exchange. In many projects, his practice is deeply embedded with the place and with the relationships that he can establish with people around him. In his works, notions of displacement, migration, borders and politics cross more personal issues related to memory and family. Badr El Hammami works on this entanglement which links the small and the big history. Through simple gestures he is developing a work in which the circulation of the word appears as a vital necessity.
He has participated in numerous international exhibitions – the most recent being (selection): Rencontres photographiques de Bamako, (2019); FATA MORGANA, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, curator: Valentine Busquet, artistic director: Olfa feki, Kerkennah, Tunisia (2018); Special offer, curator: Abdellah Karroum, Apartment 22, Rabat, Morocco (2017); Triennale SUD 2017, Doual’art, with the National School of Arts Paris Cergy. Douala, Cameroon (2017); BIENNALE DE DAKAR, artistic director: Simon Njami, Dakar, Sénégale (2016). Rabat Photographic Meetings (2016).
http://www.documentsdartistes.org/artistes/elhammami/repro.html
