Event overview
Led by Giulia Damiani, Ash Reid, Erica Scourti, Marlene Haring
This Art Research Seminar will comprise three presentations/discussions around feminism and affect, archive, activism, collectivity, technology and storytelling.
Between the Cave and the Cosmos: A Place for a Feminist Prophetic Gesture
Giulia Damiani and Daniella Cascella
The cave of the Cumaean prophetess near Naples is a tunnel to a place that is engraved deep down in the earth’s memory. It is a crack where the dead and the living, the undocumented and history, can feel each other. Giulia Damiani’s presentation will draw on the work and archive of the feminist group Le Nemesiache, who inhabited the cave with their actions in the 1970s and 1980s. The group introduced the ‘psycho-fable’ as their method: the presentation will discuss how this was a consciousness-raising process to claim ways to approach the land anew and simultaneously to imagine other forgotten pasts and unpredictable futures. It was a specific approach to theatre based on the body: women’s emotional and intellectual repression would have emerged through the physical, affective and symbolic layers of the body. Damiani will seek connections between Le Nemesiache’s method and its potential appropriation today. In particular, their evocation of a future determined by women’s imagination opens up a space for new prophecies from the present. In the end prophecy will emerge as a powerful channel of desire and a spur to action, leading to the following questions: how can we imagine a feminist prophetic gesture today? And what critical space can such a gesture engender?
Friends with benefits
Ash has invited curator and organiser Louise Shelley to discuss her recent research into worker-led and cooperative structures, in relation to her current public programme at Cubitt Gallery as their 12th Curatorial Fellow. Louise is also a member of the Cinenova working group, a voluntary collective that has continued the distribution work of the feminist film collection since it saw its funding removed in 2001. This session will take a workshop format, where we will explore as group potential routes of crossover between art and organising, and the different ways of practicing collectivity in this context.
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An open-ended conversation
between Erica Scourti and artist and filmmaker Anja Kirscher, exploring some of their shared, though divergent, research interests in immersive and embodied technologies, animacy, the cognitive nonconsious and expanded notions of story-telling and self-narration.
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For this Flashpoint my contribution is: Present in Absence.
I am sorry I am not able to to take part in person. I will, nevertheless, contribute something in writing produced during the time of the Flashpoint which will add to the documentation materials.
I would like to reflect on the division of labour, time, care, attachment, modes of thought etc. and how we experience division as conflict, both within ourselves and in society.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Mar 2019 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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