How many different weapons does it take to fight?

INVOCATIONS 26.02.2020 15:00
MIT Anna Azevedo, Edna Bonhomme, Filipa César, Claudia Huaiquimillá, Odile Joannette, Wapikoni Collective, Tiny Mungwe, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Abhishek Nilamber, Marinho Pina, Laura Huertas Millán, Leo Pakarati, Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, Themba Bhebhe and Fanny Huc
Sprache ⠀ Die Veranstaltung findet auf Brasiliaschem Portugiesisch und Englisch statt
Eintritt ⠀ Frei – Spenden erwünscht

Schedule

15:00	Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Anna Azevedo Guided Tour In Portuguese & English
16:00	Anna Azevedo, Abhishek Nilamber, Laura Kloeckner Words of Welcome
16:15	TAKE I: ON FICTIONs, REPRESENTATIONs And Futures Presentations, talk and performance by Laura Huertas Millán, Edna Bonhomme, Claudia Huaiquimilla \| Moderated by Abhishek Nilamber
18:00	TAKE II: TOWARDS A LAND WITHOUT EVIL Performative lecture, talk and screening by Marinho Pina, Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Leo Pakarati \| Moderated by Filipa César
19:30	Dinner Break
20:30	TAKE III: COALITIONS, COMMON PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE HEALING Film screening, conversation and talk by Odile Joannette, Tiny Mungwe, Themba Bhebhe and Fanny Huc \| Moderated by Bonaventure Ndikung

Accompanying the solo exhibition LETTER FROM A GUARANI WOMAN IN SEARCH OF THE LAND WITHOUT EVIL by Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy which explores the Brazilian indigenous filmmaker’s work through the archive of her audiovisual journey, we invite you to a gathering around narrations and strategies of, and beyond, indigenous filmmaking and storytelling. Engaging a plurality of voices that resonate with the spirits released by Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy’s letters in the exhibition, the INVOCATIONS explore cinematic practice as a tool of resistance and healing.

For these particular INVOCATIONS we will think through notions and ideas brought up in the exhibition and twist them in various formats seeking commonalities as well as coalitions to engage the forces of cinema to move beyond its borders. With the invention of the moving image, the camera has been instrumental to the affirmation of the colonial project, feeding an epistemic imaginary fabricated in the West. We aspire to explore decolonial acts and strategies of disobedience forging for filmic counter-narratives. How many different weapons does it take to fight? Tracing the historical entanglements of power relations and moving image, we will spark the discussion with reflections on fiction, futures and representation (TAKE I), the struggle for land rights and cinematic documentation (TAKE II), to finally explore the concept of indigeneity through coalitions and commonalities empowering film circulation (TAKE III).

Künstlerische Leitung Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
KURATORin Anna Azevedo
PROJEkTkOORDINATION & KO-KURATION Laura Kloeckner, Eirini Fountedaki
produktion Abhishek Nilamber
KOMMUNIkATION Anna Jäger
Graphic Design Lili Somogyi
MANAGEMENT Lema Sikod
Übersetzung Pamela Biénzobas und Jorge Vega
LIVE STREAMING Boiling Head Media

LETTER FROM A GUARANI WOMAN IN SEARCH OF THE LAND WITHOUT EVIL wird gefördert vom Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro undifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen). Die Ausstellung wird im Programm des 15. Forum Expanded der 70. Berlinale gezeigt. Sie findet im Rahmen von "Archive außer sich“ statt – ein Projekt des Arsenal-Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. im Rahmen einer Kooperation mit dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt, den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden und der Pina Bausch Foundation, Teil des HKW-Projekts „Das Neue Alphabet“, gefördert von der Beauftragten für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages. Die INVOCATIONS werden zusätzlich von der Chilenischen Botschaft unterstützt.

Visual Still aus Jeguatá [Reisenotizbuch] von Patricia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, Ariel Ortega, Ana Carvalho und Fernando Ancil.