Based on the narratives of the previous days, the third phase of the programme deals with the possibility of drawing attention to new topics and fields of thought. Scientific, sensitive and poetic practices build new futures of care and coexistence between species and communities. The artworks and performances offer the possibility to expand one's thinking, to decolonise it and to try out other participatory forms of collective life.
PROGRAMMe
14:00 Research practices for possible futures : history, healing, and care
Chanelle Adams, Lecture
In this lecture, scholar/writer/artist Chanelle Adams inaugurates the Saturday session by offering reflections on her research practice related to healing plants, colonialism, and history. By bringing together experiences with archive and the body, Adams' imagines possible futures of care through a politics of scholarship which prioritizes lived experiences, memory, and ecologies of relating.
Chanelle Adams is a multidisciplinary essayist, researcher, and translator. Her research focuses on the history of science and medical anthropology. She is currently enrolled at the University of Lausanne in the Political Ecology doctoral programme.
14:50 Caring for/from the Future, a film by Swoosh Lieu (2021)
To what extent are those, who care, feed and provide for others allowed to participate in society? How much remuneration and recognition do care workers receive? Who owns and who starves? What if there was a CARE revolution that rebalanced the existing inequalities in societies? What would our future look like? The feminist performance collective SWOOSH LIEU from Frankfurt am Main envisions such a future.
Swoosh Lieu is a queer feminist collective, creating at the interface of theatre, performance and visual arts. Through this form of performative practice, they open the space of the theatre for socio-political analogies, which are always negotiated and made tangible via their own means.
15:15 Exploring notions of care: A performative workshop with Mira Hirtz
What defines a caring body? How do we observe and embody care?
We will experiment with gestures of care and notions of witnessing. Thus we shift our perception between ourselves, others and other-than-human entities by simply focusing on the means that our sensing bodies offer: walking, standing, feeling, seeing, seeing again, touching, noticing. Might the focus on these every-day means create an ecology of awareness?
This workshop will serve as a performative intervention into the programme. No prior experience of movement or performance is needed, just bring your curiosity!
Mira Hirtz is a performance artist, art mediator and art theorist basing her work on somatic practices. She explores the value of creativity for human beings and ecologies in many different formats such as workshops, performances, video pieces and texts. Furthermore, she co-curated the programme series “How do we care?” at Badischer Kunstverein 2020 and took part in Bruno Latour’s research seminar leading up the “Critical Zones” exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe, for which she is developing performative art meditation.
16:45 Fallon Mayanja, SENSING SATELLITE (2021), sound performance
This piece is based on Julius Eastman's original composition “The Holy Presence Of Joan D'Arc”, which the artist places in dialogue with the narratives of Sophia Al-Maria “Sad Sack: Collected Writing” and Malcom Ferdinand “A Decolonial Ecology”. The performance is a cross between fictional speculation and social experience. It offers an interstitial space of possibilities for the composition of another, future world.
Fallon Mayanja is a sound artist and performer, who questions existing forms of communication and looks for alternative practices of interaction with sounds, bodies and voices. Drawn from multiple sources, the works are a result of dialogues created to explore the making of new narratives, new worlds and new interactions.
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