CiTR

A special broadcast created as a collaboration with the Belkin Gallery. This broadcast explores On Home and Haunting, a film curation by Ogheneofegor Obuwoma, which will play on the Belkin's outdoor screen from August 11th - September 3rd.

On Home and Haunting is a film program that deals with the uncertainty of memory as a mode by which the artists conceive and construct their films. Using the language of “hauntology” (which deals with the ways social, cultural and political issues from the past haunt the present) and how it connects us to the unresolved state of capitalist violence across time and embedded into history, this program highlights three artists working within this realm of the indelible: Hân Phạm, Adam Garnet Jones and Luis Andrés Serrano. Aesthetically, the works of these artists are ghostly; they inhabit places of the past, only possible from the present. Film is a medium favourable for these hauntings. Formally, it allows that which is abstract and ambiguous to take shape in tangible ways and in many cases; a haunting can be political. “A Glossary of Hauntings” by Eve Tuck and C. Ree defines haunting as “the relentless remembering and reminding that will not be appeased by settler society’s assurances of innocence and reconciliation.” This definition asks us to expand our formal understanding of hauntings and what they tell us about life lived and the histories we emerge from.