Migration, Belonging & Memory as an Immigrant Artist

Sunday, November 16th | 3-5 pm

Moderated by Zoraida Lopez-Diago

Featuring Marielena Ferrer, Judit German-Heins, Viktorsha Uliyanova

​​​​This panel talk offers an intimate yet expansive look at how artists actively transform and reimagine socio-cultural landscapes, weaving together personal narratives and collective memory. In dialogue with each other's practices, the discussion invites the audience to reconsider the role of visual storytelling—not merely as archives of the past but as active forces that construct, challenge, and reimagine both historical narratives and potential futures.

Dough Toss + Adam Zaretsky slideshow & talk

Artists Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger – eteam – spent the last ten months in Taiwan to research how the vibrant practices of performing hand-puppet plays are connected to our current use of handheld smart devices.

In their presentation eteam will ponder if the religious, educational and cultural functions of Taiwanese puppet plays, which are performed in a great variety of local styles at

temples, schools, public parks and cultural institutions can be compared to the ways contemporary societies use hand-held smart devices to communicate, learn, entertain and possibly connect to “higher powers.” Are there connections to be drawn between Puppet Stage and Social Feed, LLM’s and traditional speech patterns that generate and narrate epics, puppeteers and smart phone users, uploading and worshipping? Where do soul, processing power, artificial intelligence, and wisdom reside—and how are they

transmitted? What can puppets do, that humans can’t and what roles do our human hands play in the production of the stories that shape our minds?

A discussion around these topics will be stirred by media theorist, researcher and curator Natasha A. Chuk who studies media objects as systems of language, creativity, and persuasive power to think about how they shape/reshape visuality, geographies, publics, and ways of being. How can we understand the world phenomenologically and through our tools and practices — and what are ways our individual, collective, social, and political identities and behaviors are imagined, performed, and perceived? How does the study of analog, traditional hand-puppetry help us to understand our

relationship to our hand-operated digital devices?

Open Secret, a touring internet cinema curated by Dana Dawud. Part Two of a two part screening.

Open Secret moves through the shifting edges of digital culture, artistic collaboration, and experimental film.

Tony Yew, Mischa Dols, Julius Hulshof, John Robin Bold, Plastic Girl, Redacted Cat, Yan Tashtoush and Anna Savina, Bebe Crotte

Open Secret, a touring internet cinema curated by Dana Dawud. Part one of a two day screening the Saturday set features Gronos1 and Lovers Anonymous.

Open Secret moves through the shifting edges of digital culture, artistic collaboration, and experimental film.

Dana Dawud, Redacted Cat, Poorspigga, Xafya Lovecraft, Marble Index, Carmen Llin, Kryptosphaira, Eliska Jahelkova, Aemmonia, Nezhla Imanzadeh, Zoey Solomon

Roundabouts Now is delighted to be hosting The Big Idea presenting Ric Royer presenting Lea Bertucci & Ben Vida presenting Ka Baird & G. Lucas Crane. OPENING ACT: Michael Beharie feat. Maeve Schallert.