Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner – Panel Discussion

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner – Panel Discussion 22 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wording Complexities is dedicated to artistic research. Scholars and artists, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, will talk about their new film that will address and shape the possibility of alternative narrative models capable of responding to the complexities of contemporary perceptual realities. The conference panel included a moderated Q&A with the audience moderated by Lucas van der Velden and Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou. Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Videobrasil and Wroclaw Media Art Biennale, as well as solo presentations at Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, among many others. She is a lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and is currently completing a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her academic writing has appeared in special issues of Environmental Humanities and Transformations journals, and numerous book volumes. Beny Wagner is an artist, filmmaker and writer. His research themes include the cyclical regeneration of media technologies, history of science, thresholds of human and nonhuman life, affective feedback, agricultural production and politics of waste. He has presented his work internationally, including at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlin Atonal, Media Art Biennale WRO, Movimenta Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Eye Film Museum, Impakt Festival and Venice Biennale, among many others. His work has been featured in Artforum, Spike Art Magazine, Frieze, Kaleidoscope, Flash Art and Die Zeit. Wagner graduated from Bard College in 2008. He was a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy and is currently a senior lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He is working with Sasha Litvintseva on a long-term collaborative project Universal Syntax.