“They Prefer Us When We’re Dead”: Tiffany Sia in Conversation with Sekou Campbell

Tiffany Sia presents “They Prefer Us When We’re Dead,” a talk drawn from a forthcoming essay that frames law as the apparatus of video as form. Sia insists that censorship, copyright, contract law, and national security and anti-terrorism laws constitute video’s most consequential material substrate, shaping how images circulate, survive, and become acquired. Moving through her own overlapping positions as author, contractor, seller, rights holder, and public figure, Sia traces more broadly how different applications of the law structure risk and value unevenly across film and art contexts, and across jurisdictions. Sia will be joined in conversation by her lawyer, Sekou Campbell.

Free with RSVP.

Disclaimer: This conversation is not protected by attorney-client privilege. Sekou Campbell is appearing as part of an artist lecture, not a privileged consultation.

Tiffany Sia (b. 1988, Hong Kong) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer currently based in New York. Her films have screened at New York Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, among other festivals. She has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; and The Mudam, Luxembourg; and her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson; Argo Factory: Pejman Foundation, Tehran; Seoul Museum of Art; and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Sia is the author of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024) and was the recipient of the Baloise Art Prize in 2024.