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7:00 PM

The Diaspora Dialogues

Installation|Storytelling Project by Aman Mojadidi

  • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Language English
  • Price free entrance

The Diaspora Dialogues © Aman Mojadidi

The Diaspora Dialogues © Aman Mojadidi

As a storytelling project in artistic research, conversations took place with Afghan contemporary artists who Aman Mojadidi worked with in Afghanistan but that are now living in different local communities in France and Germany. Stories were shared about how they negotiate their identities as artists and as Afghans while living and creating outside of Afghanistan. The project stands as an intergenerational cross border exploration, and an important archive to better understand what Afghan contemporary art is and what makes up the complicated experiences of displaced Afghan artists today.

The installation will be displayed in ACUD Studio during the event. 

Guests

Aman Mojadidi

Aman Mojadidi has spent over 15 years working as a conceptual artist and in the fields of art and culture in Afghanistan. His research, writing, and creative practice utilize an experimental ethnography combining qualitative research, traditional storytelling, postmodern narratives, and mixed-media artworks to approach themes such as belonging, identity, conflict, neo-orientalism, imperialism, and migration; blurring the lines between fact and fiction, documentation and imagination. His artwork has been exhibited internationally including the Linden Museum-Stuttgart, Imperial War Museum-London, Times Square, NYC, 3rd Dhaka Art Summit, 12th Havana Biennale, 3rd Asia Triennial Manchester, 1st Kochi/Muziris Biennale, and dOCUMENTA (13). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Agenda

  • Reels of Home and Exile: Films from the Afghan Edge

    Movie Screening | Short Movies from Afghanistan

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • The Diaspora Dialogues

    Installation | Storytelling Project by Aman Mojadidi

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • The Silent Tears of Afghans

    Photo Exhibition | An Exhibition of Writings from Inside Indonesia’s Refugee Detention Centers

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Between Peril and Progress

    Panel | Panel Discussion with Aman Mojadidi, Fanus Ghorjani, Zara Momand und Razia Akbari

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • “Mehmani” in Concert – Songs of Home and Belonging

    Concert | Mehmani Ensemble with Hadja Rastagar, Mariann Yar und Siar Hashimi

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

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