Saturday Sessions

Screening of Asad Raza's Ge

Please join the Medina Triennial for a screening of Ge (2020– ), an ongoing video work by Buffalo-born artist Asad Raza that unfolds across biotopes and ways of knowing. Structured as a series of thematic chapters which the artist calls “stanzas,” the project weaves together documentary, fiction, sound, and text to examine how our understanding of nature is formed.

Raza approaches Ge as a metabolism rather than a fixed film. The work exists in multiple, evolving iterations shaped by place and encounter. It develops through visits to charged sites, including Lake Erie, where musicians collaborate with wind and water; the coastal landscape surrounding the home of environmentalist James Lovelock in Dorset; and the ruins of the 12th-century abbess and polymath Hildegard von Bingen in Germany. In one stanza, Raza documents the making of soil from household ingredients and human hair, foregrounding the idea that humans are embedded within ecological systems rather than separate from them.