#Repost @futuresphotography with @make_repost ・・・ Within the programme of HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as a Counter Narrative, the conference on 16 and 17 September will also organise two artist talks together with a series of panels related to our main theme this year. Curated by Marina Paulenka (@marinapaulenka), on Thursday (16 Sept.), at 7.30PM, we’ve invited the artist Morehshin Allahyari to present the lecture and performance The Needed Worlds.⁠ ⁠ @morehshin will use personal storytelling and her work as points of departure to weave in topics such as digital colonialism, archival methodologies, and myth-thinking for building the needed worlds.⁠ ⁠ Morehshin Allahyari is an Iranian-Kurdish media artist, activist, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She uses computer modeling, 3D scanning, and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Inspired by concepts of collective archiving and cultural contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D-printed sculptures, and videos challenge social and gender norms. She wants her work to respond to, resist, and criticize the current political and cultural situation that is experienced on a daily basis. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops at venues throughout the world, including the New Museum, MoMa, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale di Archittectura, and Museum für Angewandte Kunst among many others. She is the recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship (2021), The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019), The Sundance Institute New Frontier International Fellowship, and the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. She has been awarded major commissions by The Shed, Rhizome, New Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT.⁠ ⁠ All talks and panels will take place at @melkwegexpo, in Amsterdam (entrance at entrance at Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 1017 PH). Due to restrictions, we have limited seats, but all talks will be live streamed on YouTube (link in bio).⁠ ⁠ #Futures #FuturesPhotography #Hybrids #photofestival #photography