July 9 | Program by Séamus Kealy and Jenifer Papararo

Jul 09 2026

Lida Abdul

Lida Abdul is a performance and video artist. She and her family fled Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion of 1979, and lived as refugees in India and Germany before immigrating to the United States. Based on this experience, Abdul considers herself a nomadic artist, and her films, videos, and installations focus on themes of cultural identity, migration, deconstruction, and displacement.



Quenton Miller

Quenton Miller (b. Naarm, 1981) is an Australian/UK filmmaker and artist based in the Netherlands since 2012. He studied at Van Eyck Academy and the Master of Artistic Research programme at KABK Den Haag, where his focus on film developed out of playfully disori-entating video installations, as well as writing and designing for literary publications. He usually makes comedic work, depicting alienated characters struggling with language, truth, time and history. His work looks at diverse experiences of language and dislocating experiences of the world, often repurposing documentary and realism with frameworks and modes of address from literature, sci-fi and comedy “Although Quenton Miller’s work may seem ironic at times” one reviewer wrote “it is characterised by a romanticism and razor-sharp lightness.”



Rana Nazzal Hamandeh

Rana Nazzal Hamandeh ia a Palestinian artist and filmmaker living between Ramallah and Ottawa on unceded Anishinaabe territory. Her photography, film, and installation works look at issues related to time, space, land, and movement, offering interventions rooted in a decolonial framework. Her practice is deeply informed by the knowledge emerging from the grassroots movements for justice around me, both in Palestine and across Turtle Island.



Jumana Manna

Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores the articulations of power through the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Moving between the seemingly divergent media of film, abstract sculpture, and collage, Manna addresses how performing bodies, material fragments, and landscapes both desire and narrate pasts, presents, futures that remain excessive to the violences imposed upon them. Her recent work has dealt with the paradoxes of preservation – particularly with regards to land practices and the law – probing the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and regeneration.



Anouk Verviers

Anouk Verviers is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, performer, and researcher living and working between London, UK, and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, CA. Her work explores experimental encounters between bodies and matter that reveal ways through which systems of power have sought to control marginalized bodies, while also pointing to escape routes. Her most recent work looks at the past and the future of female and non-binary bodies living with under-researched and under-recognized chronic pain. She holds a BFA from UQAM (CA) and an MFA from Goldsmiths (UK). Her work has been shown internationally. Recent and upcoming exhibitions and residencies include Taipei Artist Village (2026, TW); Manif d’art Biennial (2026, CA); Images Festival (2026, CA); MOMENTA Contemporary Art Biennial (2025, CA); Parsec (2025, IT); Cove Park (2025, UK); PRIM-Dazibao (2025, CA); and ACME (2024, UK). She is a member and initiator of the Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group and a member of the Choreographic Research Unit at Goldsmiths University (UK).