Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

In the field of tension of dealing with white, male knowledge production, the non-existence of direct sources and the recurring feeling of flashbacks, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński deals with the (in)visibility of Black history in Austria. In her presentation, the artist seeks a way of dealing with these voids in the archive and the flashbacks in the everyday. Beyond desires for smoothing and resistant histories, artistic strategies of dealing with archival material are put up for discussion.

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is an artist, writer, and teacher. Her work is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach that combines postcolonial and Black feminist theory with a visual practice. As part of her PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, she is researching the performativity of Blackness in relation to Austrian coloniality, with an interest in memory and Black radical imagination in the past, present, and future.