Tina Bastajian

Tina Bastajian - she/her is a Los Angeles born, Amsterdam based media artist, researcher, essayist, and educator. Her work uses experimental approaches to documentary forms to explore themes of memory, displacement, palimpsest, and the contours of voice and translation. These impulses also coalesce with her artistic research into moving image heritage and (counter) archival constellations and dramaturgies which include, location-based storytelling, found-footage, essayistic film and writing practices. Tina currently teaches in the Academic Core at Amsterdam University College (AUC), and is the thesis and research tutor for the MOVING IMAGE program at ArtEZ AKI Academy of Art and Design. She has also taught and given workshops at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), University of Amsterdam and Piet Zwart Institute, She is the author of several publications.