fORUM is Mercer Union’s ongoing series of talks, lectures, interviews, screenings, and performances.
Main Hall
1 Spadina Crescent
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
University of Toronto
Lydia Ourahmane leads an artist talk around her new film and the subject of her first exhibition in Canada, Tassili (2022). Documenting a two-week journey on foot with a group of artists to Tassili n’Ajjer—a plateau spanning the border between Algeria and Libya—the film is an ambitious undertaking that exemplifies Ourahmane’s research-driven practice at the intersections of spirituality, contemporary geopolitics, migration, and the complex histories of colonialism. The talk will look at recent works that have addressed bureaucratic processes affecting the mobility of persons, objects and cultures, and will focus on the potential of art to examine and transgress such controls.
