Aram Lee

Aram Lee was born in Seoul in 1986 and lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work has been shown and performed at, among other venues, Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, De Appel, Amsterdam; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Zuiderseemuseum, Enkuizen; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and the Bienal de arte textil contempornea, Guimares,
Portugal.
Aram Lee’s artistic practice involves performative events, film and video installations, in which she reinterprets materials found within institutions. This research-driven practice seeks to relocate their role and purpose, challenges diasporic amnesia, and releases impure, other-wordly or false fictions from the institutions. Institutional instruments, such as archival objects in museums, are empowered to speak for themselves. This way, Lee seeks to dissolve cultural predominance and visualize new structures.In 2021 She founded “when site lost the plot”, the space dedicated to exploring the topography of site specific identity through contemporary art. She questions what site and location means in relation to displacement, climate change, and digital space. Working with in-between identities, using site as fiction preceded by plots going beyond it.

Yazan Khalili

Yazan Khalili is a phd candidate at ASCA, UvA as part of Imaginart group. He is an artist, architect, and a cultural producer. His practice frames landscapes, institutions, and social and technological phenomena as politicized entities.
His practice engages with the settler colonial question, whether in Palestine or elsewhere. He has worked extensively on surveillance related technologies such as facial recognition and its links with indigenous masks and European recognition of who is human during European colonization. He is interested in structures, institutional as well as other, and how those structures are built, and how they perform. This aspect can be traced both in his work at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, in Ramallah where during his tenure there, he was affirmatively critiquing funding and the foundations of a cultural institution under settler colonialism. He is the co-founder of Radio Alhara, and the Question of Funding collectives.