Jan Domicz in conversation with a Cologne-based writer and curator Miriam Bettin.

_

(Fragment of the conversation script as written by the artist):

In terms of talking points:
– maybe we can start with the Plotters show in Cologne, in general, descriptive, context driven
– relation between two video works from this show Plotters (Credits) and To my friends. Next room (Hotel Monterey)
both talk about readymade structures (of flats). how the function can be easily changed but structure becomes untouched || you can watch both here – first two works in this pdf.
– I can tell you about a new video I’m working on during residency in Chianti.
It is a remake (film-zombie) of Ryszard Waśko‘s short theory of space in moving image from 1974. Part of a group Warsztat Formy Filmowej.
– a pinch of unplanned detours

_

Miriam Bettin (she / her) is a Cologne based independent curator and writer with a focus on intersectional queer feminism and postcolonial narratives. Most recent projects include the group exhibition Taking Shapes at Lore Deutz, Poetics of Passing at Alte Tankstelle Deutz, Cologne (both 2023), and Aso là ´nkí, kí a tó ki ènìyàn – We greet the cloth before we greet its wearer at G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise, Nigeria (2022). In 2022, she has been a curatorial fellow at the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria. Previously, she worked at Kölnischer Kunstverein, where she curated solo shows by José Montealegre and Emma LaMorte with accompanying publications. At Kunstverein Braunschweig, she curated solo exhibitions of Jasmin Werner, Marvin Luvualu António, and Hannah Weinberger, and worked with artists like Leda Bourgogne, Margaret Raspé, and Hassan Khan. Regularly, she writes for online magazines such as Conceptual Fine Arts and KubaParis. She is a graduate of the Curatorial Studies program at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.