HANGAR ONLINE | TALK Artists Run Spaces – The Artist as a Producer of Places and Networks Talk 3 – April 29th, 2021 – 6 pm Talk will be held in English. To participate in the talk please send an email to register: hangarcia.production@gmail.com Mediated by Adama Sanneh this online talk with multi-media artist Heba Y. Amin analises her social engaged projects in the form of activism and her creation of the Black Athena Art Collective along with the artist Dawit L. Petros. Heba Y. Amin engages with political themes and archival history, using mediums including film, photography, archival material, lecture performance and installation. Her artistic research addresses the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture, and takes a speculative, often satirical approach to challenge narratives of conquest and control. Amin looks for tactics of subversion and other techniques to flip dominan historical narratives through critical practices. ____ Adama Sanneh, Co-Founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, graduated in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from the University of Milan, he worked for several years in East Africa on rural development and humanitarian emergency programs. He obtained a Master in Public Management (MPM) from the Bocconi School of Management and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Geneva. After graduating he worked as a management and strategy consultant for various public and not-for-profit organizations among which the United Nations, in education, social entrepreneurship and innovation. ___ Heba Y. Amin, (b. 1980, Cairo) is a multi-media artist and Professor of Art at the Stuttgart State Academy for Art and Design. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal, and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital War. Heba Y. Amin was awarded the 2020 Sussmann Artist Award for artists committed to the ideals of democracy and antifascism, and was selected as a Field of Vision Fellow, NYC (2019). Amin’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including The Mosaic Rooms, London (2021), Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2020), Quai Branly Museum, Paris (2020), MAXXI Museum, Rome (2018), Liverpool Biennial (2021), 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), 15th Istanbul Biennale (2017), and 12th Dak’Art Biennale (2016), to name a few. Her latest publication, Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork (ed. Anthony Downey) was recently published by Sternberg Press (2020) and her works and interventions have been covered by The New York Times, The Guardian, the Intercept, and BBC among others. Untitled #1, The Mangroove: This photograph, comes from my long term project, Paradox of Paradise (POP), through which I respond to a calling; listening to Earth tell her story by looking into our relationship with the landscape, learning how powers, culture, history, time, spirituality and the sacred etch memories into the environment. My travels so far have been in Ghana, Sao Tome and Mozambique. – Nii Obodai, 22/09/2020
