Lecture Series Fine Arts – Cana Bilir-Meier

On the occasion of the book launch Entangled Histories of Art and Migration, Cana Bilir-Meier will present her current film works. Following the screening, there will be an artist talk with Bilir-Meier and a round of discussion.

The super 8 film titled “This Makes Me Want To Predict the Past” (2019) portrays two teenagers at Munich's Olympia shopping centre. During a racist attack on 22 July 2016, Selçuk Kılıç, Sabina Sulaj, Armela Segashi, Giuliano Josef Kollmann, Can Leyla, Dijamant Zabërgja, Sevda Dağ, Chousein Daitzik and Janos Roberto Rafael were murdered there and many people seriously injured. The camera in the film follows two young people in their everyday explorations of the shopping centre as they address their dreams and hopes, but also fears and nightmares.

Cana Bilir-Meier lives and works in Munich (DE) and Vienna (AT). She works as a filmmaker, curator, artist, and in art and cultural education projects. Her filmic, performative, and text-based works operate at the interfaces between archival work, text production, historical research, and contemporary media reflexivity or archaeology.