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Prototype Conversations

Video artists in conversation, in lockdown.

One of our first voyages into the realm of virtual events during the long, long lockdown of 2020 was our digital Q&A series presented in collaboration with Prototype. With TC’s creative producer Ghita Loebenstein and Prototype curator Lauren Carroll Harris at the helm, we featured conversations with video artists from the Prototype Care Package series, a newsletter delivering new, remixed, re-edited and under-seen works made by artists in lockdown.

Sari Braithwaite

Braithwaite discusses 'Quizhuang' (2020), her film made remotely with filmmaker Katie Mitchell during lockdown. It raises complex questions around art’s purpose or purposelessness, and the fine line that divides cultural cross-pollination and cultural colonisation.

Tiyan Baker

‘Tarun’ (2020) examines the reckoning of homecoming and belonging when Baker returns to her mother’s birthplace in Sarawak (colonised by the British and then Malaysia), to learn the Bidayuh language and understand the jungle culture that might have been her own.

Sam Smith

In conversation for ‘Lithic Coda’ (2020), Smith’s work filmed on the volcanic island of Gotland, Sweden where dramatic seasonal shifts, extractive mining, scientific research and deep geological time play out in a delicate balance.

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