30 April 2022 12pm
REGISTER TO ATTEND
Artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri invites audiences to collectively unpack and collaboratively explore questions around borders, nationalism, identity, and state-based violence. Prompted by a passage from Harsha Walia’s book Border & Rule and one of Sanzgiri’s own short films, this wide-ranging and informal conversation will look at how the moving image might propose new imaginaries against the grip of ethno-nationalist consolidations of identity-based power. What possibilities does art open up in forming cross-continental solidarity in the face of far-right regimes? How might artists and cultural producers contribute to re/framing these questions towards liberatory horizons through, what activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls, “co-constitutive interdependencies”?
This event is presented in partnership with SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre), Toronto.
Admission to this online event is free; space is limited we encourage you to register in advance. Live captioning will be provided.
Optional Reading: An excerpt from Harsha Walia’s book Border & Rule (2021, Fernwood Publishing) will be provided to registered attendees.
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Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker whose work contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence. Sanzgiri graduated from MIT with a MSc in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017. His award-winning work has been screened extensively at festivals and venues around the world, including International Film Festival Rotterdam; New York Film Festival; Doc Lisboa; Viennale, Vienna; REDCAT, Los Angeles; The Menil Collection, Houston; Block Museum of Art, Chicago; as well as through e-flux and the Criterion Collection. He was named in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2021.
SESSION is a project modelling itself after an incubator that invites cultural practitioners to engage with questions that emerge out of a given exhibition.
Mercer Union’s 2021-22 Online Engagement Supported by TD Bank Group.
