INCANTATIONS.
On Ecologies, Fugitivity, and Transmission

Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Luiza Prado de O. Martins | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Luiza Prado de O. Martins | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Reading and Conversation with Nathalie Mba Bikoro and Pallavi Paul | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Reading and Conversation with Nathalie Mba Bikoro and Pallavi Paul | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Talk by Olivier Marboeuf | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Talk by Olivier Marboeuf | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Conversation with Elena Agudio, Olivier Marboeuf, Pallavi Paul and Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Conversation with Elena Agudio, Olivier Marboeuf, Pallavi Paul and Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Screening and Conversation with Shuruq Harb and Federica Bueti | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Screening and Conversation with Shuruq Harb and Federica Bueti | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre

when the memories started to come, we were untrained, we didn’t even know how to tell each other what was happening. Eventually we would learn to share what went on while we were sleeping with all the specificity we had reserved for waking life. but at that time, when the memories came back, we were only starting to know.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive. After the End of the World

Within the framework of our project ECOLOGIES OF DARKNESS, you are cordially invited to a series of conversations, performances, presentations that investigate the politics of transmission, listening and visibility; reflecting upon the possibilities of forming networks of international solidarity, by sharing knowledges, histories and practices of resistance. Over the course of a two-day public programme of Incantations, we will draw on some of the central threads that have emerged during the two-year research-project We Who Are Not the Same. This project questioned existing feminist politics through a decolonial feminist lens while experimenting with and reflecting on the possibilities of building grounds “on shifting sand”, as Maya Angelou powerfully writes in her poem.

Considering the need to sit and talk, share, name, resist, build viable forms and constellations of solidarity, we would like to create a space where we can make time for one another, share each other’s experience and struggles, think together, collectively reflect on how to listen to each other (a quest we have been challenged with repeatedly); how to facilitate forms of transmission; produce echoes and resonances.  How do we enable the transmission of affects such as longing and desire as well as shared precariousness and distorted histories? How does contemporary art become a space where such a dialogue can take place, changing our attitude toward the world?

Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jota Mombaça  | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jota Mombaça | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jota Mombaça  | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jota Mombaça | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by MIKEY. Woodbridge & Lucio Vidal | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by MIKEY. Woodbridge & Lucio Vidal | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by MIKEY. Woodbridge & Lucio Vidal | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by MIKEY. Woodbridge & Lucio Vidal | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Alexis Chan, Hera Chan, Nhu Duong, and Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian  | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Alexis Chan, Hera Chan, Nhu Duong, and Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Juliana Huxtable | Photo: Raisa Galofre
Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Juliana Huxtable | Photo: Raisa Galofre