Event overview
An experimental collaboration with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
“an earthquake is coming” – Dessalines/CLR James
The films Serpent Rain and 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy are as much an experiment in collaboration as they are films about the future and a re-imagined cosmos. The collaboration began with the discovery of a sunken slave ship, and an artist asking a philosopher – how do we get to the post-human without technology? And the philosopher replying – maybe we can make a film without time.
Serpent Rain speaks from inside the cut between slavery and resource extraction, between black lives matter and the matter of life, between the state changes of elements, timelessness and tarot. Through fragments, images and stories 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy describes an entangled moment prior to separation, and explores what becomes of movement once stripped of development? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure? And what then becomes of our molten ethics when stripped of its value form?
In short, what becomes of the human if expressed by the elements?
The event is free and no booking is required. All are welcome!
Arjuna Neuman is an artist and filmmaker. He was born on an airplane that's why he has two passports. With Denise he will exhibit an installation version of 4 Waters - Deep Implicancy at The Showroom Gallery in London this Spring.
Dr Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Professor and Director of The Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. Her work in the contemporary art sphere includes essays for publications, as well as events (performances, talks and private sessions) and texts that form part of her own practice, Poethical Readings (in collaboration with Valentina Desideri). Her academic publications include the book Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), and the edited volume Race, Empire,and The Crisis of the Subprime (with Paula Chakravartty, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
Bleeding edges and solvent objects: racial capitalism and urban technopoetics
Programmed by Dhanveer Singh Brar & Louis Moreno
If the algorithmic city is an instrument of financial capital, then it represents racial capitalism’s latest spatial product, its new bleeding edge. This is something we learn from the black radical tradition: that technologies of financial accumulation presuppose spatial modes of dispossession. But according to Cedric Robinson the tradition makes another claim: that the dispossessed create ‘solvent objects’ able to dissolve the colonial hold of the metropolis. This programme explores the work of anti-colonial poetics, and asks if an insurgent technopoetics is emerging that can confront new urban modes of domination by renewing our habits of assembly. Through a series of talks, screenings and discussions we will listen to the alienating sensuosity of sounds, take in the opaque force of images, pay close attention to the gestural, and enter into the social production of thought.
Dates & times
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1 Nov 2018 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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