SAMMY BALOJI EXHIBITION TOUR BY DR BECCA VOELCKER

9 Jan 2025 7-8pm

Sammy Baloji, ...and to those North Sea waves whispering sunken stories (II), 2021, Installation view at In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, 2021. Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès. Photo © Birger Stichelbau.

Overview

Join Dr Becca Voelcker for a special evening viewing and tour of Sammy Baloji’s solo exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA.

Dr Becca Voelcker lectures in art and film history at Goldsmiths, University of London, specialising in anticolonial and ecofeminist representations of land since the 1970s. Her first book, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction, is forthcoming with University of California Press. The book is a cross-cultural history of eco-political cinema based in ten locations including Wales, where Becca grew up, and Japan, where she lived as a young adult. Becca earned her PhD in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University in 2021. Alongside research, Becca writes for Sight & Sound, introduces films at the British Film Institute, and serves on film festival juries. Becca is a BBC New Generation Thinker 2024 with regular appearances on BBC Radio.

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