Season 2, Episode 8: I don’t center domination
Season 2, Episode 8: I Don’t Center Domination
In this episode, edna bonhomme interviews Hiba Ali and they discuss COVID-19, multimedia performance art, surveillance, global shipping, Amazon, and modes of healing.
BIOGRAPhy
Hiba Ali
Links: Website
Hiba Ali
Hiba Ali is a digital artist, educator, scholar, DJ, experimental music producer and curator based across Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, and Toronto, ON. Her performances and videos concern surveillance, womxn of colour, and labour. She conducts reading groups addressing digital media and workshops with open-source technology. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queens University, Kingston, Canada. She has presented her work in Chicago, Stockholm, Toronto, New York, Istanbul, São Paulo, Detroit, Dubai, Austin, Vancouver, and Portland. She has written for THE SEEN Magazine, Newcity Chicago, Art Dubai, The State, VAM Magazine, ZORA: Medium, RTV Magazine, and Topical Cream Magazine. Visit her website at https://www.hibaali.info/.
Transcriptions for all episodes are available upon request.
Bibliography
Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals (2019)
Hyder, Qurratulain. River of Fire (2019)
Steyerl, Hito. Duty-Free Art (2019)
Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor” (2012)
White, Simone. Of Being Dispersed (2016)
Also mentioned in this episode
Abolition Futures Reading Groups
Algorithms of Oppression Reading Group, co-hosted by Feminist.AI and Women Center for Creative Work
Artists: Saskia Sassen, Mariame Kaba, Simone Browne, Ruha Benjamin, Lisa Nakamura, Cedric Robinson, Lisa Nakamure, Lisa Parks, Saidiya Hartman, Diamond Stingily, Tabitha Rezaire, Sondra Perry, Nina Sarrelle, Joelle Mecedes, Amina Ross, Liz Mputu, Hito Steyerl, Mika Rottenburg, Black Audio Film Collective, Otolith Group, John Akomfrah, Carrie Mae Weems
Detroit Digital Justice Coalition
Nkisis: NTS
SHOW CREDITS
INTERVIEW
edna bonhomme
EDITING / POST-PRODUCTION
edna bonhomme
IMAGE CREDIT
A still “from we are living: workers liberation as environmental justice,” YouTube 360 Video, 2020
MUSIC
MattiaGiovanetti and NALALIONGIRL through Freesounds.org (Creative Commons)
THANK YOU
A special thanks to Hiba Ali.