Time: 19:45-20:30
Language: English
Discursive program: Adam Khalil & Abirami Logendran
A conversation about documentary as an artistic practice from an indigenous perspective
Curator Abirami Logendran meets Adam Khalil about AANIKOOBIJIGAN, the documentary he has been making with his brother Zack for almost nine years. Based on the title — an Anishinaabe word that encompasses both ancestor and great-grandchild at once — they talk about documentary as an artistic practice from an indigenous perspective, the struggle to bring ancestors home from museum archives, and how this resonates in a Scandinavian context.
Biography:
Adam Khalil, a member of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center, Tate Modern, HKW, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including but not limited to a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts 2021, Creative Capital Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Jerome Artist Fellowship, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
Abirami Logendran is a curator, writer and artist. She writes film and art reviews for, among others, Klassekampen, Kunstkritikk, Frieze and Kunstavisen. She is a film curator at Kunstnernes Hus and editor of Norsk Kunstårbok.