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Lila Bullen-Smith

Lila Bullen-Smith

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Lila Bullen-Smith (b.1995, Johannesburg) is an artist and researcher based in Amsterdam. She is currently studying towards her MFA at the Sandberg Instituut. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Studies at The University of Auckland in 2018, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Hons) in 2016 at Elam School of Fine Arts. From 2017-2019 she was a collective member of RM Gallery, establishing the RM Women’s Moving Image Grant and Archive Project. She has exhibited in numerous galleries across New Zealand, and has written for Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal, #500words, and other publications.
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“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.

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