INCANTATIONS.
On Ecologies, Fugitivity, and Transmission
DisKursProgramm 25.01.–26.01.2019
Mit Hera Chan, Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Alexis Chan & Nhu Duong, Dilar Dirik, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Jeannette Ehlers, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Karina Griffith, Shuruq Harb, Juliana Huxtable, Olivier Marboeuf and Ana Vaz, Jota Mombaça, Valeria Montti Colque, Pallavi Paul, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Sepideh Rahaa, Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly, Airi Triisberg, Mikey Woodbridge und Lucio Vidal.
25.01.2019 16:00
SAVVY Contemporary Plantagenstraße 31
(Am Freitag haben wir leider eine eingeschränkte Raumkapazität von 60 Gästen. Bitte kommt früh genug, um einen Platz zu bekommen. Wir hoffen, dies verursacht keine allzu großen Unannehmlichkeiten.)
26.01.2019 15:00
Kuppelhalle im silent green Kulturquartier Gerichtstraße 35
eintritt Frei – Spenden erbeten
Kinderbetreuung Bringt Eure Kinder, es gibt Kinderbetreuung –– auf Spendenbasis.
Programme
25.01.2109 | SAVVY Contemporary Plantagenstraße 31 |
16:00 | Begrüßung |
16:30 | Becoming Fluent in Each Other’s Histories |
20:30 | The Weeds Became Long Graceful Grasses |
26.01.2019 | “Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On”: Über Verlangen, Verweigerung, Übertragung und Heilpraktiken |
15:00 | Begrüßung durch die Kuratorinnen |
15:10 | An Ecology of Darkness: Attentive Errantry |
15:40 | Black Matter |
16:05 | The Dreams of Cynthia |
16:45 | Being With Sound Through The Tension Of Desire |
17:35 | The White Elephant |
18:15 | To Our Future Ancestors |
18.45 | Abendessen–Pause bei SAVVY Contemporary |
19:45 | Molnskogen (Cloud Forest) |
20:20 | Protect your refusal |
21:05 | UndeadUnborn |
21:50 | Seven Sisters: Global Mermaid Sightings |
22:45 | Juliana Huxtable MusikPerformance |
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/03_incantations_i_eod_to_become_fluent_in_each_others_histories_a_gathering_and_conversation.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/04_incantations_i_eod_to_become_fluent_in_each_others_histories_a_gathering_and_conversation.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Luiza Prado de O. Martins | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/20_incantations_i_eod_the_weeds_became_long_graceful_grasses_luiza_prado.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Reading and Conversation with Nathalie Mba Bikoro and Pallavi Paul | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/29_incantations_ii_eod_the_dreams_of_cynthia_conversation_with_pallavi_paul.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/25_incantations_ii_eod_black_matter_performance_jeannette_ehlers.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/27_incantations_ii_eod_black_matter_performance_jeannette_ehlers.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Talk by Olivier Marboeuf | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/23_incantations_ii_eod_an_ecology_of_darkness_attentive_errantry_talk_by_olivier_marboeuf.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Conversation with Elena Agudio, Olivier Marboeuf, Pallavi Paul and Jeannette Ehlers | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/33_incantations_ii_eod.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/37_incantations_ii_eod_being_with_sound_through_the_tension_of_desire_performance_and_conversation_with_tara_transitory_ng.1020x0.jpg)
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![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Screening and Conversation with Shuruq Harb and Federica Bueti | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4807/45_incantations_ii_eod_the_white_elephant_film_screening_and_conversation_with_shuruq_harb.1020x0.jpg)
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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.
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](/site/assets/files/4818/55_incantations_ii_eod_molnskogen_-_cloud_forest_performance_by_valeria_montti_colque.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/56_incantations_ii_eod_molnskogen_-_cloud_forest_performance_by_valeria_montti_colque.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jota Mombaça | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/60_incantations_ii_eod_protect_your_refusal_reading_session_by_jota_mombac_a.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/53_incantations_ii_eod_molnskogen_-_cloud_forest_performance_by_valeria_montti_colque.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Jota Mombaça | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/58_incantations_ii_eod_protect_your_refusal_reading_session_by_jota_mombac_a.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by MIKEY. Woodbridge & Lucio Vidal | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/67_incantations_ii_eod_undeadunborn_concert-_incantation_by_mikey__woodbridge_lucio_vidal.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by MIKEY. Woodbridge & Lucio Vidal | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/64_incantations_ii_eod_undeadunborn_concert-_incantation_by_mikey__woodbridge_lucio_vidal.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Alexis Chan, Hera Chan, Nhu Duong, and Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/73_incantations_ii_eod_seven_sisters_global_mermaid_sightings_performance_featuring_hera_chan_xiaoshi_vivian_vivian_qin.1020x0.jpg)
![Incantations for Ecologies of Darkness: Performance by Juliana Huxtable | Photo: Raisa Galofre](/site/assets/files/4818/82_incantations_ii_eod_music_performance_by_juliana_huxtable.1020x0.jpg)
Curators Elena Agudio, Nathalie Mba Bikoro and Federica Bueti
In Collaboration with Kelly Krugman and Kamila Metwaly
Project coordination Jörg Peter Schulze and Lema Sikod
Communication Anna Jäger
Graphic Design Elsa Westreicher and Lili Somogyi
FINANZIERUNG Gefördert im Hauptstadtkulturfonds
PHOTO CREDIT Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Uniforms (A Fly Ruthless Commission), 2017. Courtesy the artist.