Eye Artist & Scholar in Residence 2024

Ginta Tinte Vasermane and Asli Özgen-Havekotte are the Artist and Scholar in Residence of 2024.

Ginta Tinte Vasermane, Working Frames, 2014, 5-channel video installation

2024 Artist in Residence

Ginta Tinte Vasermane (born Riga, Latvia) is an artist working and living in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Netherlands Film Academy. She works with a variety of media including moving image, multi-channel video installation, film, choreography, sculpture and curating. In her work, she examines human behaviour, social norms and role play. Through her video works she attempts to shift and look at human daily behaviours from different perspectives and question common sense realities.

Ginta has exhibited work at the European Media Art Festival (DE); Art Rotterdam (NL); ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program; Residency Unlimited and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC, US), among others.

During her residency at Eye, Ginta worked with Eye’s collection archive of slapstick silent films and Vaudeville. Inspired by her findings in the archive, she created a new multi-channel video installation work.

Installation

Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast is the multi-channel video installation that Ginta Tinte Vasermane developed during her residency at Eye.

still from Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast (Ginta Tinte Vasermane, 2024)

still Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast (Ginta Tinte Vasermane, 2024)

2024 Scholar in Residence

Asli Ozgen is an assistant professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She teaches in the bachelor’s programme Media and Culture and the Master’s programme Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. Her research lies at the intersections of film historiography, critical archival studies, and memory activism. Rooted in intersectional feminist and decolonial praxis, her current research focuses on the audiovisual memory of contested pasts, as well as archival and activist practices concerning diasporic film heritages. Presently, she is working on a book about the audiovisual heritage of migration from Turkey to the Netherlands, with a particular emphasis on the political uses of film in (international and transnational) solidarity networks, as well as the archival status of this material.

At Eye, Asli worked with diasporic, displaced, and (post)colonial collections to explore potential responses to the pressing need for 'decolonisation'. While in the broader museum field these issues have been increasingly debated in the past years, the question here is how the decolonial critique might specifically intervene in the ontology of film museums, and how this critique might inform new ways of thinking about the role of film museums as actors of social and environmental justice. Asli's research at Eye explored these concerns, propelling the debate from within the film archival field and with questions grounded in the everyday of archival practice – through film specific histories of anti- and decolonial thought and praxis. Read more about Asli’s project on Decolonial Futures of Audiovisual Archives and Archiving here.