A BPOC study group for artists/arts workers in performance, theatre, Live Art, and dance. Organised with BUZZCUT, this event offers a shared reflective space to spend time with Leda Maria Martins and engage with her ideas.
Connecting with friends in Palestine, in spite of the borders, states, infrastructured violence that tried to keep us apart, friends assembling in Ramallah will contribute online to The Conference of Butterflies, and organise their own mini-Episode in person.
Diffusion of the song “Soufounan Banaha Nouh” (“Ships Built by Noah”) recorded in 1920’s Jerusalem, to help us remember that there was a time before the Nakba. And that there will be a time after it.
David is a poet, playwright, writer and a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Hanine is a leading Palestinian scholar, who writes about European antisemitism, settler colonialism and religion. They’ll talk about the history of Zionism, Europe, states, individuation and solidarity.
The São Paulo collective JAMAC visually manifests community histories and desires into patterns: for fabric, houses, ceramics, dishcloths… They have developed the set design for Episode 12 with participating artists and workshops locally.
Lara explodes the naïve claim to neutrality of normative psychiatric care. Her concept of ‘psychic intrusions’ helps to identify the ways power seeks to mould the consciousness of the people it subjugates. Her notion of ‘psychic militancy’ maps the resistance to such attempts.
Where has art stood in the Nakba’s perpetration? The Nakba in the Room is part of a response and a search for an exit from complicity; improvised, wrestled and unmade in the same time of its viewing.
Join the artists and participants in the Episode for food between events, catered by our friends Soul Food Sisters —a migrant women’s catering co-op from Glasgow’s East End.
A conversation between preeminent Palestinian feminist, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and poet and theorist David Lloyd. Nadera has coined two incredibly profound concepts to understand Palestinian life today. Ashlaa’—the violent fracturing of Palestinian bodies and lamlameh—the defiant collecting of a loved one’s body.
A landmark of militant cinema, bringing together drawings collected by Franz Fanon, alongside testimony from, and filmed portraits of children recounting French state violence during the Algerian War of Independence.