States of the Body Produced by Love
Nisha Ramayya
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
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In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.