Day 3 of Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It, five days of film, music, discussion and study - https://bit.ly/AKEpisode11Join us in person or watch online the Live Stream, on the main page of Arika’s Episode website https://arika.org.uk/episode-11-to-end-the-world-as-we-know-it/
Join us on Friday at the Episode for… Workshops about Muslim sociality animated through instructional scores, and critical tools for young people to fight alongside the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation. An artist’s talk and Study Sessions about and politically synthetic music making and critiques of late liberalism. And in the evening a major conversation between some of the leading voices around Blackness and Indigeneity in the arts globally.
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Glasgow School of Art Friday Event
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
11am to 1pm
Talk, Film
PLEASE NOTE VENUE - Glasgow School of Art Reid Lecture Theatre
Access: See GSA website for Access
Tickets: Free - First Come First Served
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, expanded cinema and feminist practices. For this talk and screening event, she will reflect on Oriana (which screens at the Episode on Thursday and its companion piece Œnanthe. She will discuss how they were made (what it means to filmicly translate an experimental novel); and how they enact relationships between plural protagonists, the land, and the non-human world, beyond possessive individualism.
When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?
Sadia Shirazi, Mezna Qato & Sakina Ali
11am to 2pm
Workshop
Tickets: Reservation Required
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores, including The People’s Mic Khutba, that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
An inter-generational workshop open to BIPOC and their elders, who are engaged or interested in ritual practices of grief, mourning, body work or somatic practices of care.
This workshop has limited spaces, please reserve a place. If you can no longer attend, please let us know so we can open up the space to someone else.
The word shaheed is used for both witness and martyr in languages ranging from Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Balochi, Pushto, Kashmiri, Persian, Swahili, Hausa and Somali. Amidst the scale of ongoing genocides and catastrophes across the world, this workshop attempts to hold a space for mourning, commemoration, and unfathomable grief. In a dimly lit space, participants will be led through a series of scores, including The People’s Mic Khutba (PMK) facilitated by Sadia and Mezna. They will be joined by Sakina Ali, who will recite an elegiac poem in Urdu penned by Munshi Chhunnilal Dilgeer, from which the title of the workshop is drawn.
Sonic Fictions
Rashad Becker
1.30pm to 3pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4 & Live Stream
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free – First Come First Served
Rashad is celebrated for create intense, intriguing synthetic body music, that bypasses melody, harmony and meter, and opens up microtonal spaces between sounds or their complex relationships and structures. Behind this, his music’s sonic qualities are a manifestation of specific, historically aware communist politics. For this study session, Rashad will chat about his way of manifesting complex historical situations as speculative sonic fictions to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences, based on the Shining Path Communist Party of Peru, Syrian migration, the Red Army Factions insistence on being tried as prisoners of war, or the choral properties of texts written by the SPK—sozialistisches patienten kollektiv.
Analytics of Existence
Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Mijke van der Drift
3.45pm to 5.30pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4 & Live Stream
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free – First Come First Served
Elizabeth is one of the most influential anthropologists and critical theorists in the arts globally. Her writing, teaching and art-making (as part of the Karrabing Film Collective) puts forward a vital critique of late liberalism, toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify them. For this study session long-time Arika friend Mijke van der Drift will be asking Beth to share some of her thinking about: ancestral catastrophes, the cunning of late liberalism, and alternative distribution of powers, that contribute to forms of existence or ways of being otherwise enduring.
Hussein Mitha
Intifada, Revolution! An anti-imperialist resource for young people
4pm to 6pm
Workshop
Tramway Studio
Access: None
Tickets: Free – Reservation Required, book here https://00arika00.eventbrite.com
Hussein is organising a workshop for young people, and anyone who works in youth education to think about and practice critical tools to fight alongside the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation.
The workshop will take as its starting point Intifada! Revolution! A new anti-imperialist resource for young people edited by Hussein Mitha, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and artworks. It explores what anti-imperialist resistance looks like for young people in the imperial metropole, and asks how young people can respond to the calls of the Palestinian resistance.
More than Perfect
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Arissana Pataxó, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Geni Núñez and Ailton Krenak (by video)
7pm to 10pm
Talk
Tramway 1 & Live Stream
Access: BSL, Live Captioning and Portuguese into English Translation
Tickets: Friday Evening Pass
What if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? What if we considered that this may well result from both ecological and social devastations as well as radical propositions and programs for another world, a better world, whatever that may look like? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come? How to imagine it collaboratively? Denise Ferreira da Silva
For More than Perfect, Denise and Amilcar have gathered some of the leading radical indigenous voices globally to be in conversation. Geni is an indigenous Guarani and queer activist, and emerging voice in the Brazilian thought. Leanne is one of the most compelling indigenous voices in Turtle Island (‘North America’). Arisanna is one of the curators of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennial.
Full schedule, programme notes and access details for all Episode events is available on the Arika website.
Book Tickets
https://bit.ly/AKEpi11Tix
About our Tickets
Episode Evening Pass tickets are on a sliding scale (£1-£15) and you can choose what to pay based on your circumstances. The Evening Pass gets you into all events that day that start at 4pm or later.
Book online, in-person at Tramway or by phone on 0141 276 0950
Tickets subject to transaction fees: £1.50 online, £1.75 by phone
Paying for tickets helps support the work and the artists at the festival, so please do so if you can. We have a number of free tickets available on a first come first serve basis for those who would like to come but need to access a free ticket to do so. Please email [email protected] to reserve these - this email is managed during our opening hours Wednesday – Sunday.
Access
For Full access details go https://arika.org.uk/episode-11-to-end-the-world-as-we-know-it/#access
About the Episode
Is this world coming to an end?
Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
Episode 11 brings together five days of film, music, discussion and study to think through our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the ecological and social devastations of a capitalistic, colonial and imperialist worldview that has been obliterating other worlds for over 400 years— to practice how we might exist otherwise, right here and now.
This year’s programme will include contributions from: Ailton Krenak | Karrabing Film Collective | Elizabeth Povinelli | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | Robyn Maynard | Denise Ferreira da Silva | Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri | Houria Bouteldja | Beatriz Santiago Muñoz | Emilia Beatriz | Geni Núñez | Mezna Qato and Sadia Shirazi | Hussein Mitha | Ligia Lewis | Amilcar Packer
Music programme in collaboration with Counterflows: Chuquimamani-Condori | Rashad Becker | Sunik Kim | Nat Raha and Ailie Ormston
Arika return to the Tramway after Episode 10: A Means Without End. Arika celebrate and support connections between art and social change by exploring artistic practice in relationship to critical thought and political organising through research, relationships and encounters. There are other ways to know and be in the world.
Access
For Full access details go https://arika.org.uk/episode-11-to-end-the-world-as-we-know-it/#access
Books
Setting up a stall of books at the Episode will be Aye Aye Books.
Produced by Arika
Supported by Creative Scotland, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Tramway, Glasgow Life, Canada House
Media Partner with The Skinny
Image from Serpent Rain by Arjuna Neumann and Denise Ferreria da Silva
Event Venue
Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE, United Kingdom,Glasgow, United Kingdom
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