One of the people featured Tuesday at the Creative Time summit in Venice, Italy, during the Venice Biennale was the acclaimed artist Mariam Ghani, daughter of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
In part two of our interview with Mariam Ghani, she describes her work in St. Louis, Missouri during "Ferguson October" protests that erupted after Michael Brown was killed. The result was her short film, "The City & The City," which looks at how the city is so divided it becomes two separate countries. She also discusses her work on the issue of borders, the experience of Afghan women, and her upcoming documentary about Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Watch part one of this interview, in which Ghani describes her decade of work on a number of art projects looking at how the United States responded to the Sept. 11 attacks. Along with the artist Chitra Ganesh, she created an Index of the Disappeared–a physical archive documenting post-9/11 detentions, deportations and renditions. Ghani and Ganesh also created the Guantanamo Effect–an interactive digital archive defining, illustrating and linking key terms and events in the so-called “global war on terror.”