Notes From Diyarbakir: Tigris / Dicle

Walking to the East of the city, just outside the walls, there is a steep terrace that looks out over farmlands in the Tigris (Dicle) valley.

Bio

Cressida Kocienski holds an MA in New Media Production from LJMU and an MFA in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, London. Working between video, performance and text, her research concerns spatial research and modes of narration. In October 2013 she will begin practice-based PhD research in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield to examine modes of spatial narration in contemporary film practice. She has worked collaboratively with antepress within Art on the Underground, James Taylor Gallery, ICA (London) and Resonance FM. Her films have screened at Benaki Museum (Athens), FormContent (London), Pleasure Dome and TSV (Toronto). In 2011 she was Filmmaker in Residence with DAAR in Beit Sahour, Palestine. She is Co-Editor of The Institute of Immaterialism, and works collaboratively with architects O[S]R (Toronto) and OPENkhana (London and Sheffield).