Serwah Attafuah – recipient of the Mordant Family Moving Image Commission for Young Australian Artists – will be joined by ACMI Executive Director of Programming Keri Elmsly and ACMI Curator Amanda Haskard (Tatungalung, Brabralung) to delve into Serwah’s multi-disciplinary practice and new screen-based work The Darkness Between the Stars, which will be exhibited at Australia’s museum of screen culture in 2025. Amanda will also discuss The Future & Other Fictions, ACMI’s major summer exhibition, where visions of the future play a central role in contemporary art practice, resonating deeply with Serwah’s own work.
Presented in partnership with ACMI.
Serwah Attafuah (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based on Dharug land/West Sydney, Australia. She creates surreal cyber dreamscapes and heavenly wastelands, populated by afro-futuristic abstractions of self with strong ancestral and contemporary themes. Serwah has collaborated and been commissioned by clients including Mercedes Benz, Nike, GQ, Microsoft, Adobe, Paris Hilton and Valentino. Notable achievements include her participation in Sotheby’s ‘Natively Digital’: A Curated NFT auction, ‘Apotheosis’: a live motion capture experience with Soft Centre at The Sydney Opera House. and a TEDX talk in Sydney on The Metaverse and Afrofuturism.
Amanda Haskard is a Tatungalung & Brabralung curator living in Naarm (Melbourne). Primarily working with moving image, sound and installation, Amanda’s curatorial work & research explores duality and experimentation, often through themes of memory, ritual and resistance. Projects are site responsive, highly collaborative and embrace a cross-disciplinary approach. Amanda is committed to working in non-traditional modes and across art-forms, and is passionate about creating a culture of interconnectedness in her curatorial work which values new ideas, experimentation and difference. Amanda is a Curator at ACMI, lectures with RMIT School of Architecture and Design, and holds a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.
Keri Elmsly is Executive Director of Programming for ACMI, Australia’s national museum of screen culture. She leads curatorial, exhibitions, film, public programs, collections and ACMIX, the museum’s creative residency. A creative catalyst, specialised in developing ambitious cultural projects and organisations on the global stage, Keri’s experience traverses artist development, large-scale immersive projects, touring shows and leadership across museum, art, design, and entertainment sectors.
CONVERSATIONS is presented by Guardian Australia.
This talk will take place in the CONVERSATIONS space at Melbourne Art Fair.
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