Featured in the Walker’s 2013 exhibition 9 Artists, Natascha Sadr Haghighian is known for her research-based art practice that encompasses a variety of forms and formats, including video, performance, installation, text, and sound, and is primarily concerned with the sociopolitical implications of contemporary modes of world-making, especially in the field of vision and visuality. This text is part of ongoing research into techniques of “looking awry.” Rather than offering highlights from a CV, Haghighian asks readers to go to bioswop.net, a CV-exchange platform from which artists and other cultural practitioners can borrow and lend CVs for various purposes.
A Crossing
A raft filled with passive world leaders. An online mashup combining a photo-op of western politicos at the Charlie Hebdo march with the deaths of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean, it’s an apt metaphor for an EU refugee policy that’s hopelessly adrift.