Artist Talk with Sim Chi Yin and Clarissa Thieme

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Nihad Kreševljaković und Clarissa Thieme, Foto Michael Zeeh

Archival Futures

Artist Talk with Sim Chi Yin and Clarissa Thieme

Working in and with archives is an important part of Sim Chi Yin and Clarissa Thieme’s artistic practices. In this talk, the two artists offer insights into their respective approaches to archives and their artistic exploration of historical documents.

Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. Working across photography, moving image, archival intervention, performance, and book-making, she constructs multi-layered works that weave research, personal history, and geo-political critique. Sim lives and works in Berlin.

Clarissa Thieme is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher working in the fissures between individual memory and its violent translation into historical objectification, exploring the living archive as a commons and vulnerability as essential to resistance and solidarity. Central to her practice is a collaborative mode developed over many years, most significantly since 2004 with the film collective Save the Amazon Production at the Library Hamdija Kreševljaković Video Archive Sarajevo. She is also a co-founder of the AR archiving platform The ARchipelago (www.archipelagoarchive.com).

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