Tasweer Dialogues
Past Event
Tasweer Talk: Collaborative Authorship and Image-Making, with filmmaker and artists Ania Hendryx Wójtowicz and multidisciplinary visual artist, architect and urbanist - Sebastián Betancur Montoya.
About Tasweer Talks Third Guests - Ania Hendryx Wójtowicz.
Ania is a filmmaker and artist whose work blurs the lines between genres, exploring intersections between film and other creative fields.
Since 2015, Ania has worked with the Doha Film Institute where she has played a key role in the production of over 50 short films and manages the annual Qumra shorts program. She is the main producer of two award-winning creative short documentaries (Emily, ilaw ng tahanan by Anna Prokou and Ghareeb by Yasser Mustafa and Christophe Buffet). Fever Dream, Ania’s debut short film as director, was selected for the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
Independently, she has produced video/multimedia performance installation artworks for the British Council exhibition "The Place I Call Home" (2019), Qatar Foundation (2018), the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2016), and the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016).
Ania grew up between Simsbury, CT, U.S.A. and Kraków, Poland, and has lived in Doha, Qatar since 2013.
About Tasweer Talks Third Guests - Sebastián Betancur Montoya.
With a landscape architect’s sensibility, the urbanist macro perspective, and a maker’s eye for details, Sebastián develops public art masterplans and interventions as a curator, visual artist, and fabricator interchangeably. He holds a certification in Sculpture fabrication, a BA in Architecture/Urbanism, and an MA in Museums and Gallery Practice. Working in disparate contexts such as Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East for 19 years has situated his interests at the intersection of mobility, global politics, and local ecologies.
Uncommitted to a medium, his body of work traverses drawing, installation, assemblage, land-art, performance, and recently image-making and audio, these often intertwine with Sebastián's curatorial practice and social/environmental activism projects.
His work has been part of exhibitions, publications, residencies, workshops, art fairs, and informal events in Colombia, Nassau, Doha, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Shanghai, and across the GCC.
About the Talk:
Engage, learn & be inspired by Ania & Sebastián’s practice and creative methodologies.
Topics:
- Collaborative Work
- Crossover of visual arts and filmmaking
- Industry structures (funding and exhibition) vis-à-vis process and audience
- Technique as a project-specific requirement
- Aesthetics as a project-specific decision
- Non-static photography
- Artwork documentation as artwork
