Collaborations with Mieke Bal

COLLABORATIONS WITH MIEKE BAL

Along with artist and cultural theorist Mieke Bal, I made a series of videos and installations exploring migratory aesthetics, mental health, and the emotional complexities of capitalism and gender ideology.

PRECARITY

2015 | HDV
Five-channel video installation

This five-screen installation puts forward different contexts of precarity in today’s global society. Everything, from health to relationships to labour rights and human rights as well as economic survival is precarious. We attempt to bind these areas together in their audio-visibility.

Based on Flaubert’s prophetic novel Madame Bovary from 1856, our five screens show the precariousness of an adult life beginning; the world that seduces her into risking what she has and craving for what she doesn’t; and when, grasping at last straws, she takes more and more dangerous turns, and thus, inevitably, she ends in misery, both economically, psychically, and physically.

Meanwhile, from the edge of the space where her life plays out on four screens, we see how this is not an individual ill nor a blameable transgression but something towards which she has been pushed all along by her surroundings. Especially the meddling pharmacist Homais represents the probing of the curious and the rejoicing in Emma’s misfortune and downfall, as we see in Probing and Meddling.

In Shaping and Moulding the young woman is being educated in and outside school, and educating herself with activities inspired by her cultural environment. In Seduction she is lured into adventures that promise her a more fulfilling life, but instead, give her heartbreak and unsolvable debts. Nothing is what it seems. Last Straw presents her ultimate, desperate attempts to happiness, but only confronts her with the impossibility of achieving it in the social passivity she has been raised to cultivate. Hence, in Endings we witness the inevitable denouements such striving and failures entail: financial ruin, divorce, mental breakdown, death.

Shows
-Dublin, Ireland, Arts Technology Research Lab
7 - 10 April 2016
-Prague, Czech Republic, National Gallery
20 February 2015 - 24 May 2015

So far, this small installation has been exhibited three times. In the National Gallery in Prague, it had a floor of its own, in a beautiful group show The Importance of (Being) a Moving Image, rated by Adam Budak and Jen kratochvil, February 20 - May 24, 2015. For this, see under group exhibitions: The Importance of Being a (Moving) Image, Prague. In Utrecht, for just one day, it was shown as an accompaniment of my keynote lecture in the conference Re-Interpretation: A Conversation on Power Structures” Utrecht, 5 February 2016. In Dublin, at Deleuze and Art, Trinity College, Dublin, it was installed 6-10 April 2016.
For the Dublin version see Precarity in Deleuze and Art

A very reduced account of the the Humanities Student Conference in Utrecht, “Re-Interpretation: a Conversation on Power Structures” is here.

MADAME B

2014 | HDV | 96mins | sound | Several languages with English subtitles
Feature film

Emma, a talented and ambitious young woman, seeks an escape from her father’s farm to a life of glamour, passion, and freedom. She spots what seems an outlet in the form of Charles, a local country doctor, but the move turns sour as the tedium of everyday life with a dull man sets in.  She seeks passion and embarks on affairs, before turning her attention to the allure of money and consumerism, spending lavish amounts on extravagant products.

When her ruinous debt leads to her possessions being auctioned off, Emma attempts to recoup money or secure loans from businessmen, former friends and lovers. She fails, and in desperation takes her own life. Madame B updates Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, forcefully contemporary in 1856, into an ambitious feature film about our own times.

Special screenings
Dublin, Trinity College, International Conference Deleuze and Art, 10 April 2016
Stockholm University, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, 11 February 2016
Académie de France Villa Medici and Royal Dutch Institute Rome (KNIR), Interculturality Week, Rome, 9 October 2015
Clark Art Institute, Massachussets, 23 September 1015
Barnard College, New York, 15 September 20015
Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen, 2 September 2015
Helsinki Summer School, University of Helsinki, 25 August 2015
“Stadt der Frauern”, Bayerische Staatsoper, June 27, 2015
Culturgest, Lisbon, 22 June 2015
Colloquium “Flaubert – L’image”, Ischia, Castello Aragonese, 14 - 17 May 2015, organised by Flaubert Zentrum Munich and ITEM Paris (screening on May 15)
De Uitkijk, film series Cinema and Philosophy, (with lecture), March 18, 2015
Cine Tonalá, Retrospectiva Fílmica Mieke Bal, 17-20 (18) January 2015
Launch of Frans Zwartjes Manifesto, 9 January 2015
Cultural Centre WORM, Rotterdam, Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Koning Academy, 25 November 2014-11-25
Colloquium “Flaubert – Le mot, l’image, le rêve”, Ischia, Castello Aragonese, 30 September - 4 October 2014, organised by Flaubert Zentrum Munich and ITEM Paris
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 11 September 2014, World Première, and 13 September 2014
Pjazza Teatru Rjal, Valletta, Malta, Valletta International Visual Arts (VIVA) Festival, 4 September 2014
Konstrundan Åboland (association of artists), Turku, Finland, 5 may 2014 (sneak preview)
Cinema Bio Savoy, Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, 4 May 2014 (sneak preview)
The Storey, Lancaster (UK), 26 March 2014 (sneak preview)
Leiden University, Academiegebouw, March 14 and 17, 2014 (sneak preview)
Kino Soprus, Tallinn (Estonia), 21 January 2014 (sneak preview)
Collins Cinema, Wellesley, MA (USA), 23 September 2013 (sneak preview)

MADAME B: EXPLORATIONS IN EMOTIONAL CAPITALISM

2014 | HDV | sound | Several languages with English subtitles
19-channel video installation

The Madame B project created by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker is an immersive video installation about the link between capitalism and romance. By creating deliberate anachronism and intertextuality, the works explore the bond between capitalism and emotions, and the commercial aspects of romantic love. In so doing, they show how these relationships persist fully 150 years after Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary was released; how Flaubert was in many ways a post-modernist and feminist. Fragmented into the 19 screens of this exhibition, visitors can confront the fact that the life of a woman of 150 years ago can as well happen today.

As the video allows you to see, the concept of “immersive exhibition” is not used to lure visitors into a passive drowning in art. On the contrary, we aim to give the concept new life, and deploy the space to encourage personal responses; to allow visitors to become aware of what their own reactions are to what they see and hear. This gives not only “immersive” but also “interactive” a new meaning.

Shows
1 - 30 August 2014
Gallery of Sydney College of the Arts, Australia

4 May - 10 June 2014
Eckerö Post och Tullhus, Åland, Finland

22 May - 30 June 2014
Sala U, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Colombia
Sala de Arte, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia

6 December 2013 - 9 February 2014
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

SAYING IT

2012 | HDV | sound
10-channel video installation

Exactly one year after the opening of Landscapes of Madness in Turku, on September 20th, 2011, we opened what is provisionally the last and in a sense, culminating exhibition based on the Mère Folle project. On September 20th 2012, we opened the exhibition Saying It. Landscapes was a museum exhibition that covered the entire narrative of A Long History of Madness, supplemented with additional materials.

Saying It is narrowed down to the single case of Sissi, starring Marja Skaffari, Marjo Vuorela, and Anniki Järvinen, as respectively, Sissi, her analyst, and her mother. Supporting cast are Sirpa Joenniemi as Head Nurse, Soile Iivonen as Annmari, Sissi’s roommate and Muse, and Mona Ratalahti as a Clown representing a grotesque counterpoint to Sissi’s desire to find a husband and get married.

The exhibition was curated by Joanne Morra.

September 20th - November 19th 2012
Freud Museum, London

A LONG HISTORY OF MADNESS

2011 | HDV | 126mins | Various languages with English subtitles
Feature Film

If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame?

For Dr Françoise Davoine, Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients, Ariste, dies. Davoine is abducted and put on trial by mediaeval fools and through the course of one hellish day - across several centuries and countries – must argue her case for exoneration.
As the journey forces Dr Davoine to question her own life, via a mix of fiction, documentary and theory, A Long History of Madness takes the viewer on a one-of-a-kind journey into the minds of the ‘mad’ and those designated to cure them.

For more information visit the film’s official website.

Special Screenings of later, somewhat shorter version A Long History of Madness
Lisbon Estoril film festival, presented by Françoise Davoine, colloquium on Chaos, under the titles Histoires de fous, 14 November 2015
Cine Tonalá, Retrospectiva Fílmica Mieke Bal, 20 January 2015
Cinéma de la communeauté de Communes de Clermot de l’Oise, Cinéclap, CEMEA de l’hôpial pyschiatrique de Clermont de l’Oise, 28 September 2013
Conference “Folds and Patterns”, at Eikones NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel, 31 May 2013
Film Forum at the Ludwig Museum, Köln, 29 January 2013
Fédération européenne de psychyse et école psychytique de Strasbourg (FEDEPSY), 23 November 2012
Círculo Psicoanalítico mexicano, series “El psicoanalista en el cine”, Centro Cultural Casa Reyes Heroles, Coyoacán, 3 November 2012
Cinéma Le Métropole, Lille, France, for the Société de Psychanalye, 19 October 2012
Espacio INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales), Ciudad de las Artes, Córdoba, Argentina, 16 and 23 August, 2012
Cineteca, Conarte, Monterrey, Mexico, 28 June 2012 (Q&A with Alberto Montoya Hernández, director Cineclub, México Ciudad, México
Topkino, Vienna, 12-20 May 2012 (Q&A by Andrea Braidt)
Les 3 luxembourg, Paris, May 13, 2012 (Q&A by Michiel Engel)
Lumière Cinema, Göttingen, Germany, May 24, 2012 (Q&A by Lalit Vachani)
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, March 30, 2012
Alands Museet, Aland, March 10, 2012
Bell TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre, Toronto, March 5, 2012
VTape, Toronto, March 3 – April 7 (twice daily), 2012
Ciné Lido, Centro Cultural Bella Epoca, México Ciudad, México, 5 February 2012
Niagara Theatre, Tampere, Finland, 22 January 2012
City Library, Turku, Finland, 18 January 2012; 4 January 2012
Arts Centre Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 14 December 2011
Festival On Wheels, screening followed by Masterclass, Ankara, Turkey, 6 December, 2011
ArtSpace, Syndney, Australia, 31 November, 2011
Association A Propos, Cinéma d’art et d’essai, Metz, France, 25 November, 2011
Università di Bologna, Scuela de Studi Superiori Umanistici, 23 November, 2011
Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 10 November, 2011
Cineteca Nacional, México Ciudad, México, 31 October, 2011
Cineclub, Coyoacán, México, 29 October, 2011
Festival de la Locura, Universidad Iberoamericana, León, México, 26 October, 2011
PharmaCity Auditorium, Arts Studies, University of Turku, Finland, 21 October, 2011
Conference “Ordnungen des Sehens: Innovationsfelder der kunsthistorischen Niederlandeforschung. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Goethe Universität & Städel Museum, September 30, 2011
Society of Psychoanalysis Therapeia, Helsinki, 23 September 2011
Colloque International “Ecriture(s) et psychanalyste: quels récits? ”, Centre de Cerisy La-Salle, France, July 7, 2011
International Visual Sociology Association, Annual Meeting, “Visual Research as Collaborative and Participatory Practice. Theatre, Vancouver, Canada July 7 , 2011
Flagey, Brussels, Belgium, May 29, 2011 (included panel discussion)
“Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience” Performance Studies International conference, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, May 27, 2011
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, May 13, 2011
Cape Town-based private practitioner psychologists’ supervision group. March 28, 2011
“Space, Ritual, Absence: The Liminal in South African Visual Art” colloquium, Research Centre Visual Identities in Art and Design, University of Johannesburg (hosted at The Bioscope), Johannesburg, South Africa, March 9, 2011
“Practicing Theory,” ASCA International Workshop 2011, ASCA, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 4, 2011
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA, February 26, 2011 (included artist Q & A)
“Madness, History and the Social Link” conference on Mère Folle, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University (hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London), London, UK, February 19, 2011 (included artist Q & A)
Goldsmiths, University of London, February 19, 2011 (included artist Q & A)
Salón de Actos de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática. [ETSINF - Edificio 1E] Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, February 2, 2011
Cendeac, Murcia, Spain, January 31, 2011
Auditorio Casa de Cultura, Bullas, Spain, January 30, 2011

LANDSCAPES OF MADNESS

2010 | HDV | Colour | Sound
20-channel video installation

Landscapes of Madness constitutes a voyage of discovery that can take any length of time, from several minutes up to several hours depending on your interest. But we hope all visits will be immersive experiences, leading up to engaged and engaging encounters.

The exhibition offers experiences both familiar and unfamiliar. In a combination of shock, pleasure, strangeness and beauty, you make a journey through what is usually called “madness”.

You wander through the spaces and keep encountering new forms of madness—some tragic, some humorous; some play-acted and some “really mad”. This raises the question that you are implicitly requested to ponder: are these people, and the people I encounter mad, do they play the fool, or am I too rigid to allow them to be sane; and what does the answer to that question say about me?

21 October 2011 - 29 January 2012
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker
Curated by Mia Hannula

BECOMING VERA

2007 | DV | sound | 54min
French, Bamun and Russian spoken with English subtitles
Documentary

Between age three and four, Vera Loumpet-Galitzine traverses many landscapes, exploring where she comes from, to come into her own. We follow her to her school and neighbourhood activities in France, Cameroon and Russia. As Vera dances, sings and runs around these visually engaging landscapes, seemingly easily integrated into her rich fantasy world, we attempt to imagine what they look like to her. What does she see, think, or imagine? As in all Cinema Suitcase works, the film lets the subject hold the story and her images tell it, and the family explain things, rather than having an authoritative outside voice-over do the telling.

Instead of telling a chronological story, we hop around from moment to moment where Vera’s playing becomes learning as a means to becoming Vera. As in all Cinema Suitcase works, the film lets the subject hold the story and her images tell it, and the family explain things, rather than having an authoritative outside voice-over do the telling.

By Mieke Bal, Alexandra Loumpet Galitzine & Michelle Williams Gamaker

Film festivals
- Pärnu Film Festival, Pärnu, Estonia, July 9, 2009
- Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF), Tromsø, Norway, January 13, 2009
- Barents Spektakel Festival, Kirkenes, Norway, February 1, 2009

Critical article
Anna-Helena Klumpen, “Identité-mosaïque à l’ère de la mondialisation
Le tour de manège de «Devenir Vera » dans le film ‘Becoming Vera’”
65-88 in: _Praxen der Unrast: Von der Reiselust zur modernen Mobilität;
Se faire mobile: Du gout au voyage à la mobilité moderne_ (Lit Verlag, 2011).

In addition to the festivals mentioned, Becoming Vera has appeared at the following events:
- Université de Lyon 3, Jean Moulin, Salle d’exposition Manufacture des Tabacs, Lyon, France, May 31, 2017
- Rome, Royal Dutch Institute Rome, Interculturality Week, 12 October 2015
- Cine Tonalá, Retrospectiva Fílmica Mieke Bal, 21 January 2015
- Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., USA, March 13th, 2014, with lecture “Resisting Resistance” (in series Art and gender)
- U-Theatre, Studio, University of Utrecht, Postcolonial Initiative, February 21, 2012-02-22
- Exhibition “Exstranjerías”, curated by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta, MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea) México Ciudad, January 28 – July 22, 2012 (with catalogue)
- Bilkent University, Ankara, with workshop, Turkey, 7 December 2011
- Exhibition “Towards the Other,” curated by Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits. Saint Petersburg, Russia, Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress. October 10-29, 2011
- Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, November 16, 2011
- Exhibition “The Last Frontier / La última frontera: Video works by Mieke Bal, in collaboration with Michelle Williams Gamaker and Others,” Curated by Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro, February 3 - March 29, 2011 (with catalogue)
- Stockholm University Library, Sweden, November 26, 2009
- “La langue en movement” seminar, Institut Finlandais, Paris, France, March 21, 2009
- “Going the Distance: Video Works in Migratory Aesthetics.” Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, December 5, 2008 – February 15, 2009
- “Negotiating Borders” conference, cinema BASEN, Kirkenes, Norway, September 13, 2008
- “Culture and Citizenship” conference, CRESC, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, September 3, 2008
- Temple University, Temple Rome Campus, Rome, Italy, June 12, 2008
- Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, May 13, 2008
- Townsend Centre, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 24, 2008
- Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, March 12, 2008

COLONY

2007 | DV | sound | colour | 36min
Documentary

This film explores multinational shoe company Bata’s impact on individual lives and their surroundings. The film’s aesthetic, shifting from site to site and shot to shot, offers pockets as a visual version of the bubble that was the Bata colony itself. The characters are all connected to that past. They guide the viewers through the merging of past and present in memory. The film’s colouration also evokes this mixture.

The idyll of living and working together is obsolete. This is a tale of colonisation, hierarchy, and the politics surrounding the work of individuals whose lives became entwined in a global vision. Tensions between parties in labor conflicts come to the surface. In a highly globalised world, the paternalistic idea of a company that provides workers with not only the monetary means to support themselves, but also with a “village” formerly called “colony” that combines housing, education, health care, and leisure facilities, seems positively utopian and quaint.

By Mieke Bal, Gary Ward, Zen Marie and Thomas Sykora
Project Director: Michelle Williams Gamaker

Film festivals and exhibitions:
- Cine Tonalá, Retrospectiva Fílmica Mieke Bal, 21 January 2015
- U-Theatre, Studio, University of Utrecht, Postcolonial Initiative, February 21, 2012-02-22
- Exhibition “Exstranjerías”, curated by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta, MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea) México Ciudad, January 28 – April 30, 2012 (with catalogue)
- Exhibition “Towards the Other,” curated by Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits. Saint Petersburg, Russia, Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress. October 10-29, 2011 (with catalogue)
- Exhibition “The Last Frontier / La última frontera: Video works by Mieke Bal, in collaboration with Michelle Williams Gamaker and Others,” Curated by Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro, February 3 - March 29, 2011 (with catalogue)
- “Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close.” Contemporary Art Society, Vancouver, Canada, November 21, 2009 – January 16, 2010
- “Anti-Ekonomija Života” film program, Belgrade, Serbia, July 16–21, 2007
- Bucharest Biennale 3. In “Dis-economy of Life” program. Bucharest, Romania, June 21–25, 2007
- “Novas Imagens Urbanas.” In “Art-e-conomy” program. Incrivel Club, Lisbon, Portugal, March 8–10, 2007
- In “Art-e-conomy” program, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 12, 2007
- Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. In “Art-e-conomy” program. Venice, Italy, February 7, 2007
- Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, November 15, 2006
- Vtape, Toronto, Canada, November 5, 2006
- Studio Dauhaus, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 4, 2006
- Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, October 27 – November 9, 2006

MILLE ET UN JOURS (1001 DAYS)

2004 | DV | sound | colour | 43mins
Documentary

The film celebrates the outcome of an intricate journey of the anguish, struggle, loneliness and financial constraints of a young sans papiers in Paris. Tarek (27) came to Paris from Tunisia in 1999 pursuing an education. Despite the difficulties of his status as ‘illegal immigrant’, he followed a course of study in computer science and obtained his diploma. As he was pursuing this double life of earning a living and studying, the French authorities tried to expel him. But they didn’t succeed.
Through a great intimacy with the characters, we witness how four generations of Tunisian immigrants cope with the opportunities and hardships of migration. Tarek’s obsession with time’s speed is cast against the shadow of his father’s earlier failure to cope with capitalist time.
Like the Arabic tales the film’s title references, the film organizes stories around a wedding. With celebrations in full swing, the politics of immigration remains present under the surface. The film’s political thrust is to elicit debate by enlisting the viewer to become acquainted with the characters and the ins and outs of their situation; to be guests at the wedding. Rife with bureaucratic violence but also with the characters’ vitality, determination, and intelligence in outsmarting ‘the system’, the film’s content and aesthetics mix the contrasting tones of tragedy and comedy, fear and celebration.

By Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward & Michelle Williams Gamaker

MILLE ET UN JOURS (1001 Days) has appeared at the following:

-Galerie d’art Taverse Gutenberg, Lyon, France, June 2, 2017- Rome, Royal Dutch Institute Rome, Interculturality Week, 15 October 2015
- Cine Tonalá, Retrospectiva Fílmica Mieke Bal, 21 January 2015
- Exhibition “The Last Frontier / La última frontera: Video works by Mieke Bal, in collaboration with Michelle Williams Gamaker and Others,” Curated by Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro, February 3 - March 29, 2011 (with catalogue)
- Exhibition “Towards the Other,” Peter & Paul Fortress, St Petersburg, Russia, 10-29 October 2011
- Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, December 9, 2010
- Reading group. Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, December 10, 2009
- Stockholm University Library, Sweden, November 25, 2009
- “La langue en movement” seminar, Institut Finlandais, Paris, France, March 21, 2009
- Exhibition “Going the Distance: Video Works in Migratory Aesthetics.” Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, December 5, 2008 – February 15, 2009
- University of Washington Program Study Abroad, seminar, August 9, 2008
- “ANTI-EKONOMIJA ŽIVOTA” film program, Belgrade, Serbia, July 16–21, 2007
- Bucharest Biennale 3. In “Dis-economy of Life” program. Bucharest, Romania, June 21–25, 2007
- “Hungry for Thought.” Centre Space, Russel Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, January 31, 2007
- Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, November 15, 2006
- Studio Dauhaus, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 4, 2006
- Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, October 27 – November 9, 2006
- Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia, October 10, 2006
- ‘DIS-ECONOMY OF LIFE’ Klub Kulture, Mazuranicev Trg 1, 48260 Križevci and Osijek, Croatia, M-art & Barutana, October 2006
- Udruga UKE – Urbana kultura I edukacija (Urban Culture and Education), Križevci, Croatia, September 24, 2006
- University of Arts Belgrade, Belgrade, October 11, 2005
- Exhibition “Cinema Suitcase Unpacked”, Art Gallery of the College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY, March 3 and 10, 2005
- Duke University, Durham, NC, March 1, 2005
- “New Masculinities” exhibition, curated by Kathrin Becker, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2005 (see Masculinities exhibition catalogue, Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein)
- “The Travelling Concept of Narrative” Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, December 3, 2004
- Cinema et Art Contemporain, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, October 28 – November 2, 2004
- University of California, Berkeley, April 8, 2004 and November 30, 2004
- Artword Theatre, Toronto, March 21, 2004
- Workshop on word/image relations, University of Toronto, Toronto, March 10, 2004
- Alien-3, curated by Heidrun Holzfeind in Art Center W139, Amsterdam, February 13 – March 14, 2004
- Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany, December 18, 2003
- PhD course on multiculturality, University of Tromsø, Norway, November 12, 2003
- “Modes of Seeing” conference, University of Trondheim, Norway, November 8, 2003