Transmediale 2025
(near) near but — far:
A Closing Conversation
02.02.2025, 18:00
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
Live Streaming + Tickets
Wi ith சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah), Asia Bazdyrieva, Chris Lee, Luiza Prado, Jas Rault, T.L. Cowan, Ali El-Darsa, مشترى هلال Moshtari Hilal
Asia Bazdyrieva is an art historian whose work focuses on hybrid European-Soviet modernity and its ideological and material implications in spaces, bodies, and lands. Bazdyrieva co-authored Geocinema, a collaborative project exploring infrastructures of earth sensing as a form of cinema. She is currently a member of Critical Media Lab Basel and was a transmediale fellow in 2022-23 as part of the Weltoffenes Berlin Residency, funded by the Berlin Senate.
சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) is a writer and political geographer. Their writing focuses on issues of statelessness, displacement and colonial modernity, viewed from the angle of infrastructure, logistics and built cultures.
Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) and currently an Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at the Pratt Institute.
Luiza Prado is an artist, writer and scholar. Her work moves between installation, sculpture, and the moving image, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between plants, political infrastructures, and technology, and questions what structures and processes are needed for collective concerns of environmental care and reproductive justice.
Jas Rault is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at University of Toronto, focusing on queer histories of architecture and design; trans- feminist and queer digital praxes and protocols; media of settler coloniality, white supremacy and sexuality; aesthetics and affects of social movements.
T.L. Cowan is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. Their work focuses on trans- feminist, queer, & disabled/disordered ways of working, often in alter-ego form as the Aging Supermodel or Mrs. Trixie Cane.
Ali El-Darsa works across moving image, performance, installation, and sound. His work examines structures of belonging in transnational contexts, emphasizing the role of time-based media in creating networked, mediated memories and narratives.
مشترى هلال Moshtari Hilal works as a visual artist and writer in Hamburg. She is co-founder of AVAH (Afghan Visual Arts and History) collective. Her essay *Ugliness* was published by Hanser 2023. With Sinthujan Varatharajah, Hilal published at Wirklichkeit Books *Hierachies of Solidarity* and *English in Berlin - Exclusions in a Cosmopolitan Society*.
Toronto Queer Film Festival – TQFF
The Image Remains the Same
End of March
Tranzac club,
292 Brunswick Ave
Toronto
tqff.ca