MENTORSHIP AWARD MOVING NARRATIVES
By the Prince Claus Fund & British Council
© 2022 Seed Awardee Ankur Yadav, "Orbiting the Black Sun" (2019)
The Prince Claus Fund and British Council are pleased to announce the 12 Award recipients of Cycle 1 of the Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives!
Dominant worldviews tend to exclude nonconforming experiences and perspectives, often silencing critical voices, and overlooking or overemphasizing differences. Artists and cultural practitioners possess the power to challenge these worldviews by moving our understanding of the past and visions of the future toward more liberating horizons.
The Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives will bring together 12 mid-career artists and cultural practitioners from around the world in a year-long interdisciplinary programme with an aim to nurture critical methodologies and artistic strategies focused on re-examining histories and cultivating emancipatory imaginations.
The cohort hails from 12 different countries and works across a kaleidoscope of disciplines, such as (fiction) writing, curatorial practices, performance art, visual arts, film, sound art, and archival research. The group will be guided by historian, educator and exhibition maker, Samia Henni; artist and writer, Haig Aivazian; journalist and chief editor of Kosovo 2.0, Besa Luci; and philosopher Rohit Goel.
GET TO KNOW THE ARTISTS
Abdeslam Ziou Ziou | Morocco
Researcher and art consultant addressing the multiple modalities of writing art history that emerge from a particular territory and context.
Abdul Halik Azeez | Sri Lanka
Multidisciplinary artist and organizer delving into the interplay among technologies of power, contemporary culture, lived experiences, and media.
Dian Suci Rahmawati | Indonesia
Multi-media artist highlighting multifaceted issues on the domestication of women’s politics, authoritarianism and fascism, patriarchy, and capitalism.
Alf Bojórquez | Mexico
Writer and musician focusing on how art can make us desire and shape a radical future through narrative, fiction, radio and sound art.
Devadeep Gupta | India
Interdisciplinary artist exploring regional ecological uncertainties, critically examining institutionalized histories and contemporary mainstream perspectives.
Alfred Tarazi | Lebanon
Artist and designer articulating the spectacle of war as a syntax of the unimaginable, highlighting the role of the past as both origin and destination.
Katie Numi Usher | Belize
Multidisciplinary artist exploring Blackness and interrogating Black female erasure within both the colonial history of Belize and the present day.
Mariano Pozzi | Argentina
Image and sound designer taking scenes and themes from the past and present to rethink both in terms of human rights for a more equalitarian future.
Ngoc Nau | Viet Nam
New media artist using real stories of daily life to find ways to build connections between the larger system and her own community.
Elyla | Nicaragua
Performance artist and activist creating resistance to colonial and imperialist ideologies around the construction of identity and nation-state narratives.
Keren Lasme | Côte d’Ivoire
Artist, writer, literary curator, and researcher reclaiming the dreamscape and shares fragments of wonder, beauty and mystery.
Mark Teh | Malaysia
Performance maker, researcher, and curator addressing the issues and entanglements of history, memory, counter-cartography, and the political.
