Invitation to Defense of Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Ph.D. in Practice, April 21, 2021, 6-8pm | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Dear All,

The Ph.D. in Practice Program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the Defense of Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński’s dissertation project Fleshbacks & H(a)untings / Notes on Research, Blackness, Empaths, and the Destruction of the World As We Know It. The Committee is made up of: Moira Hille (chair), Anette Baldauf and Renate Lorenz (1st and 2nd supervisor), and Fatima El-Tayeb (UC San Diego). 

Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2021; 6 - 8 pm 

The event will take place online. Please see the Zoom link below.

Repeated encounters with a past that refuses to be past, and the flashbacks and hauntings that result from it, stand in the center of Fleshbacks & H(a)untings / Notes on Research, Blackness, Empaths, and the Destruction of the World As We Know It, a creative non-fiction in four chapters. Three personas are haunted by an ongoing past, and, as they will only realize much later, by an ancestral presence – the Chorus. 

Please join us for the defense presentation, and a fading in and out between film, text, and sound.

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 965 7188 0342

Passcode: $1$4*#

Please arrive until five minutes in advance. You will find yourself in the waiting room and will only be admitted if you arrive before the defense starts. 

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a writer and artist living in Vienna, Austria. Rooted in Black feminist theory, she has developed a research-based and process-oriented investigative practice that often deals with archives, specifically with their gaps and blanks. Interlacing the documentary with the fictional, her works manifest themselves through a variety of media and dissect the present of an everlasting colonial past. She is currently a guest professor at the Academy for Media Arts Cologne.