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PerMagnus
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Lindborg
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Sweden
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Composer
Sound Artist
Designer
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Dr PerMagnus Lindborg is a composer, sound artist, and researcher. He has authored more than 100 media artworks and compositions presented worldwide, notably at Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai (2017); Tonspur, Vienna (2016); National Gallery Singapore (2015); Onassis Centre, Athens (2014); World Stage Design, Cardiff (2013); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2008); and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003). Lindborg studied piano and composition at the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo, music computing at IRCAM in Paris, contemporary musicology at Université de Paris Sorbonne, and holds a PhD in sound perception and design in multimodal environments from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (2015). Since 2005, Lindborg has taught at institutions in France and Singapore. He has published 33 peer-reviewed articles and papers in PLoS One, Leonardo, Applied Acoustics, and Applied Sciences, and book chapters for IRCAM-Delatour and Springer-LNCS, as well as numerous conference proceedings. He created the biannual Soundislands Festival (2013, 2015, and 2017).
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Singapore
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PerMagnus Lindborg
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PerMagnus Lindborg
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Lisa
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Rave
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Lisa Rave is an artist, filmmaker, and photographer. In her work, she often explores issues surrounding postcolonialism, and history’s repeating patterns in the complex interplay of culture, economy, and ecology, as well as natural phenomena. Rave studied experimental film at the University of the Arts Berlin and photography at Bard College, New York. She was a fellow artist at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2014. Some of her recent exhibitions and screenings include Lofoten International Art Festival (2017); Arsenal Kino Berlin (2017); Glasmoog Cologne (2017); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Augarten (2017); Württembergischer Kunstverein (2016); 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial (2016); FLORA ars+natura, Bogota (2015), Meulensteen Gallery, New York (2014); Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2013); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2012); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2011); and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2011).
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Germany
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None
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Lisa Rave
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Lisa Rave
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inhabitants
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2019-2020
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United States
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inhabitants (Portugal/United States) is an online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting. Founded in New York in late 2015 by visual artists Mariana Silva and Pedro Neves Marques, inhabitants produces and streams short-form videos intended for free, online distribution. All episodes are available at www.inhabitants-tv.org, as well as on Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.
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None
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Birth Date
2015
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inhabitants
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Oceans & Seas
Extractivism
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North America
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inhabitants
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Hồng-Ân
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Trương
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2020
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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United States
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Artist and Associate Professor of Art
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Hồng-An Trương (United States) uses photography, sound, video, and performance to examine histories of war and immigrant and refugee narratives through a decolonial framework. By interrogating archival materials, she examines the production of knowledge through structures of time and memory. Her interdisciplinary projects are premised on the concept that aesthetic battles are also political and ideological battles. Her work has been shown at venues such as the International Center for Photography (NY), Art in General (NY), the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, NC), The Kitchen (NY), Nhà Sàn (Hanoi), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland), Leslie Tonkonow Gallery (NY), the Rubber Factory (NY), the Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN). She was included in the New Orleans triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp in 2017-2018. Her collaborative work with Hương Ngô was exhibited in Being: New Photography 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic, among others. She has been awarded an Art Matters Foundation Grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grant, and is a 2019-2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in Fine Art. She is currently the Capp Street Project Artist-in-Residence at the Wattis Institute at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine and was a fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Hồng-Ân is based in Durham, North Carolina where she is an activist and an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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None
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Hồng-Ân Trương
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Hồng-Ân Trương
Hong-An Truong
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North America
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Genevieve
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Quick
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2020
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United States
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Artist and writer
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Genevieve Quick is an interdisciplinary artist and arts writer whose work explores global identity and politics in speculative narratives, technology, and media-based practices. In her sculptures, installations, videos, and performance, her humorous science fiction narratives exaggerate disaporic identity to the intergalactic to address Otherness and displacement. She has exhibited at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; [2nd floor projects]; Royal Nonsuch Gallery; and Southern Exposure. Quick has been awarded visual arts residencies at The Headlands Center for the Arts, Recology, MacDowell, Djerassi, the deYoung Museum, and Yaddo. She has received a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant; a Eureka Grant from the Fleishhacker Foundation; a Kala Fellowship; and grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation. Quick has contributed writings to 48 Hills, Artforum, cmagazine, Art Practical, Daily Serving, Temporary Art Review, and College Art Association.
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None
None
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Artist
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Genevieve Quick
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T. Minh-ha
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Trinh
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Vietnam
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Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and of Rhetoric
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Trinh T. Minh-ha is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and an award-winning artist and filmmaker. She grew up in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and pursued her education at the National Conservatory of Music and Theater in Ho Chi Minh City. In 1970, she migrated to the United States where she continued her studies in music composition, ethnomusicology, and French literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She embarked on a career as an educator and has taught in diverse disciplines which brought her to the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal, where she shot her first film, Reassemblage. Trinh’s cinematic oeuvre has been featured in numerous exhibitions and film festivals. She has participated in biennales across the globe including Documenta11, Kassel (2002), and most recently at Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020). A prolific writer, she has authored nine books. She is the author of several books including <i>Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared </i>(2016), <i>D-Passage: The Digital Way</i> (2013), and <i>Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event </i>(2011). Her film <i>Surname Viet Given Name Nam</i> (1989) was presented as an installation within NTU CCA Singapore’s inaugural exhibition <i>Paradise Lost </i>(2014).
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None
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None
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University of California, Berkeley
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Trinh T. Minh-ha
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Feminism
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Trinh T. Minh-ha
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Heidrun
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Holzfeind
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2020-2021/2023
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Austria
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Artist
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<span>Heidrun Holzfeind is an Austrian artist and filmmaker who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Cooper Union in New York. Her work focuses on how architecture interacts with people’s everyday lives, questioning inherent architectural and social utopias and exploring the relationships between history and identity, individual histories, and present-day political narratives. Her films have been screened at various prestigious events and institutions, including the Istanbul Biennale 2022, MOMA New York, NTUCCA, Mumok Vienna, MAK Vienna, Belvedere-21 Vienna, and Shibaura House Tokyo. Through her films, Holzfeind continues to push boundaries and challenge traditional perspectives on architecture and society.</span>
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Germany
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None
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
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1972
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<a href="http://www.heidrunholzfeind.com/index.html">http://www.heidrunholzfeind.com/index.html</a>
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Heidrun Holzfeind
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Asia
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Heidrun Holzfeind
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Kimi
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Takesue
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United States
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Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker and recipient of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships in Film.
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www.kimitakesue.com
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None
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Kimi Takesue
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Asia
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Kimi Takesue
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Shireen
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Seno
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Japan
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Shireen Seno studied architecture and cinema at the University of Toronto before relocating to Manila. Her work addresses memory, history and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home.
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Philippines
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None
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None
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Shireen Seno
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Asia
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Shireen Seno
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John
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Akomfrah
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2020
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United Kingdom
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John Akomfrah is a highly respected artist and filmmaker of Ghanaian descent, living and working in London. His works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality, and aesthetics, often exploring the experiences of migrant diasporas globally. He combines text, music, and archival documents to shift debates on politics, media, and conventional historic narratives. Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside the artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, who he still collaborates with today. He has had numerous solo exhibitions including ICA Boston (2019); New Museum, New York (2018); Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham (2018); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2018); Barbican, London (2017); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2016); and Tate Britain, London (2013-14). He has participated in the Ghana Pavilion, 58th and 56th Venice Biennale (2019 and 2015); Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017); La Triennale di Milano (2017); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); SeMA, Seoul (2014); Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); Liverpool Biennial (2012); and Taipei Biennial (2012). He was awarded the Artes Mundi Prize in 2017.
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United Kingfom
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None
None
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None
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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John Akomfrah
Subject
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Race
Decolonialism
Geopolitics
Diaspora
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
South America
Asia
Africa
Contributor
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John Akomfrah