Event overview
Clémentine Bedos discusses their latest immersive performance Your Rage is Sacred (maa) at Forma with all their collaborators.
Performed for the first time in November of 2023 at Goldsmiths Sonics Immersive Media Lab (SIML), Your Rage is Sacred (maa) is the realisation of Bedos’ doctoral research, Techno-Tantrik Embodiment: Navigating Oppression and Resistance Through the Creolisation of Ancestral and Emerging Technologies. Drawing on their cross-cultural heritage and experience, Bedos brings disparate ideas and cosmologies into conversation. “Creolising” holistic practices like meditative visualisations, breathwork, mantra and movement with modern tools like real-time 3D creation, 360 projection, and surround sound, this project explores epistemic frictions between apparatuses which belong to and emerge from different visual regimes.
The performance explored the spiritual aesthetics of Tantra to delve into the body – divine instrument of perception and karmic archive – and conjure rage as a catalyst for personal and collective transformation.
In their discussion, Bedos and their collaborators will touch upon the entangled agencies and complex web of solidarities that a work like Your Rage is Sacred (maa) enacts. They will reflect on their experience of making the work, as well as discussions surrounding technology as cultural practice, and the extractive nature of imperial logic/colonial praxis manifested in emerging technologies, Tantra as an ancestral science, and the parallels between the divine feminine of Śakta Tantra and Ifa (West Africa).
In addition to the discussion Bedos’ and their collaborators will also share with us a short reenactment of the performance, centering audience testimonies.
RSVP: Limited capacity, please RSVP necessary for entry: rsvp@forma.org.uk
forma.org.uk/projects/clementine-bedos/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 29 Feb 2024 | 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
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