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Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road, 2022
Screening and Discussion
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Inter 7 Unit Space, Top Floor of 36 Bedford Square
Journeying through Jerusalem and recalling autobiographical memories along the way, Ashery observes how both of these senses of belonging (of geographical place and of personal memory) have and continue to fuse with the vertiginous and winding flows of nation-building, infrastructure and land use. Turning a lens onto the contested areas in and around Jerusalem, Selfish Road draws upon the genres of science-fiction, stand-up comedy, the family photo album, and the implicit privilege of the slacker road movie. A journey through anger, grief, hope and resistance; this work dreams of material ecological pathways for indigenous life away from the actions and logic of settler occupation. Drawing lines between personal histories and national futures, the film seeks out an ethics in and beyond the beauty of the region.
-extracts from text by Mason Leaver-Yap
This screening event presents:
Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road (2022); colour, sound, film on HD video; 30 minutes
The screening will be followed by an open discussion with Oreet Ashery chaired by Marko Milovanovic and Intermediate Unit 7.
OREET ASHERY is a visual artist who works across established art institutions and grassroots social contexts. Using film, photography, performance, 2D and textiles, they narrate stories of precarious identities and combine autoethnography, collective knowledge and biopolitical fiction. Ashery was awarded the 2017 Jarman Film Award for Revisiting Genesis (2016), a web series that questions how the boundaries between dying, care and self are affected by digital technologies. In 2020 they were a recipient of the Turner Prize Bursary for the exhibition Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery (2019), Wellcome Collection, London. Their monograph How We Die Is How We Live Only More So (2019) was published by Mousse. Ashery is Professor of Contemporary Art at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
Oreet Ashery’s Selfish Road is a production series commissioned by KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, with kind support from the TORCH Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), and the John Fell Fund (University of Oxford).
Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road, 2022
Screening and Discussion
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Inter 7 Unit Space, Top Floor of 36 Bedford Square
Journeying through Jerusalem and recalling autobiographical memories along the way, Ashery observes how both of these senses of belonging (of geographical place and of personal memory) have and continue to fuse with the vertiginous and winding flows of nation-building, infrastructure and land use. Turning a lens onto the contested areas in and around Jerusalem, Selfish Road draws upon the genres of science-fiction, stand-up comedy, the family photo album, and the implicit privilege of the slacker road movie. A journey through anger, grief, hope and resistance; this work dreams of material ecological pathways for indigenous life away from the actions and logic of settler occupation. Drawing lines between personal histories and national futures, the film seeks out an ethics in and beyond the beauty of the region.
-extracts from text by Mason Leaver-Yap
This screening event presents:
Oreet Ashery, Selfish Road (2022); colour, sound, film on HD video; 30 minutes
The screening will be followed by an open discussion with Oreet Ashery chaired by Marko Milovanovic and Intermediate Unit 7.
OREET ASHERY is a visual artist who works across established art institutions and grassroots social contexts. Using film, photography, performance, 2D and textiles, they narrate stories of precarious identities and combine autoethnography, collective knowledge and biopolitical fiction. Ashery was awarded the 2017 Jarman Film Award for Revisiting Genesis (2016), a web series that questions how the boundaries between dying, care and self are affected by digital technologies. In 2020 they were a recipient of the Turner Prize Bursary for the exhibition Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery (2019), Wellcome Collection, London. Their monograph How We Die Is How We Live Only More So (2019) was published by Mousse. Ashery is Professor of Contemporary Art at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
Oreet Ashery’s Selfish Road is a production series commissioned by KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, with kind support from the TORCH Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), and the John Fell Fund (University of Oxford).