This episode is a conversation between Edgar Schmitz and Behzad Khosravi Noori. Edgar works on and through dispersed materialities of the choreographic, and distributed forms of (in-)animacy. He is the founder of the CHOREOGRAPHIC and ANIMATE ASSEMBLY research clusters and, director of the Art Research Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. Behzad is an artist, writer, educator, playground builder, and necromancer. His research-based practice includes films and installations as well as archival studies. He is a professor in practice at Habib University in Karachi.

This conversation was recorded in a studio in central London. Edgar and Behzad reflect on their joint interest in the art of necromancy as a metaphorical and methodological tool to reinterpret history.

They discuss Behzad’s films on this topic and explore themes like the political distribution of the sensible, decolonisation, the incompleteness of history, and the labour involved in memorialising the past.

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

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