The Office for... Yearning: Conversation with Jemma Desai

The Office for... Yearning: Conversation with Jemma Desai

Author: OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway March 4, 2025 Duration: 31:04

Recording of Jemma Desai in conversation with OCA Head of Programme Mike Sperlinger after her performance lecture Yearning as Method: Notes on programming ‘Latifah and Himli's Nomadic Uncle’. The event took place at Vega Kino in collaboration between MIRAGE and OCA, 10 October 2024.


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