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SESSION 5:
DISSEMINATION

Note: breaks are not reflected in the schedule which follows.

FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021

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SATURDAY, 27 MAR 2021

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SUNDAY, 28 MAR 2021

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Workshops

CURATING AND  
performing borders
A WORKSHOP WITH ELENA MARCHEVSKA + ALESSANDRA CIANETTI

Saturday, 27 MAR 2021
15:00 - 20:00 UTC.

In this workshop, we will examine the process of curating and nurturing work done by migrant artists. We will explore the geopolitical reality of migration, rooted in political and economic power structures, aspirations to artistic hegemonies and the battle for resources in a saturated art markets. We will look at practices that reversed the typical museum and gallery practice of displaying artefacts and artworks from existing collections. Instead, we will look at projects where the participants were encouraged to shared their own stories of migration, lived experiences of intersectional borders, sentimental revisioning of art concepts, and challenges to existing systems (performingborders; Library of performing rights; Museum of migration; Forensic architecture etc.). We will also look at how migrant artists challenge what art can be, and how they use different mediums to discuss what migration means today. We will also explore the root of the word ‘curating’ (care), and what it means to care for/as an artist today.

Elena Marcheveska’s Profile | Site
Alessandra Cianetti’s Profile | Site

Syllabus

Sounds Like Sense
A Workshop with Kim Schoen

SUNDAY, 28 MAR 2021
15:00 - 20:00 UTC

“Basnop ka dipple yadda yadda (rather than try to fix the problem, just validate my feelings.)”
—Alexander The Jester, In A Version of Grammelot

Cadence is among the persuasive tools that classical rhetoric has given us: volume of sound, modulation of pitch, rhythm employed. But what happens when cadence replaces meaning? We are living through a moment where meaning-transfer is not necessarily required, where politicians, for example, can ‘sound like’ they are making sense and expect listeners to agree. This is to some degree accurate. Sense may function even in the most semantically evacuated sentence.

There are earlier precedents to this ‘sounds like’ condition, beginning with commedia dell’arte troupes of the 16th and 17th centuries and their audiences often spoke different languages as the troupes traveled from province to province (Italian, French); in response to this conundrum, invented language appeared on stage for the first time. This was nonsense that sounded like language, performed solely to connect with audiences. Contemporary Italian performer Dario Fo has coined the term “grammelot” to refer to this expressive babble.

This workshop will begin with learning and discovery of some of these older forms of mimicry of meaning. Discussions will be on the shifts in sense it elicits. Artists, ever the negotiators of sense, are uniquely positioned to understand, adapt to, and play with these planar alterations of sense. In this workshop, we will explore and experiment via texts, recordings, performances, and sound work to produce new forms of communication that run counter to traditional agreements of common sense.

Kim Schoen’s BIOGRAPHY | SITE

SYLLABUS

Public Talk

Compassion and Social Justice:
A conversation With Zee Ahmed, Sonia Barrett, Eto Otitigbe, Konjit Seyoum

Organized by Jean Marie Casbarian
mediated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
18:00-20:00 UTC

Organized by Transart advisor and artist Jean Marie Casbarian and mediated by Transart advisor and artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo. This panel of Transart alumni from across the globe will explore the issues surrounding racial and cultural biases, and the systemic obstacles to equanimity that they continue to face. Please join us in a conversation that integrates somatic exercises and embodied practices that seek to support the open heart in which honest dialogues, compassion, and empathy can coexist.

panelists

Zeerak Ahmed
Sonia E Barrett
Eto Otitigbe
Konjit Seyoum

Program

Intro (5 min)
4 Presentations (15 min)
Moderated discussion with presenters (30 min)
Remaining time: open to public Q&A or open discussion

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
Jean Marie Casbarian

Cadence As Meaning
A TALK WITH KIM SCHOEN

SUNDAY, 28 MAR 2021
15:00 - 15:30 UTC

Kim Schoen has been working with nonsense in her practice for the last ten years. In this artist talk, she will focus on her video works that experiment with cadence and meaning and discuss the ongoing research strands in her practice that bring rhetoric together with art-making.

Kim Schoen’s BIOGRAPHY | SITE

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