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.
A book launch and conversation with JAMAC: an insurgent art project in São Paulo who visually embed stories into drawn patterns used towards processes of community self-determination. They have done the set design for Episode 12.
Collective listening as a political action. Ejrad will present sonic counter-narratives from the Edinburgh student encampment which mobilise the transformative power of listening as a bridge towards solidarity, action, and change.
Centring performance within a host of concepts crystallised from Black worldmaking and religious frameworks, Leda Maria Martins is one of the most influential thinkers of Afro-Brazilian experience today.
Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.
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.
US percussionist, poet, sound artist and instrument maker performing on self-made instruments constructed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, PVC plastics and various kinds of pipe.
The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.
A double bill. A simple first person, Dundee-specific tracking shot that approaches the cinema/ screen/ space the film will eventually be shown in and in Brazilian opera house, a fixed camera gazes at a local audience from the stage: a choir, hidden in the orchestra pit, sings and gradually fades to silence.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.