Resisting Bodies

Borders and boundaries are spaces of resistance for bodies and individual or collective struggles, activated day by day in multiple places around the world. We can all too easily encounter extreme cases such as the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian community, where an immediate ceasefire is the only way out of utter barbarism. In collaboration with La Escocesa and Sassouki Salma, we have organised this session to add our voices to the chorus clamouring for a CEASEFIRE and to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people.

We shall be screening works by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, a pioneer of Arab cinema who was deeply committed to the Palestinian cause and documented resistance movements firsthand. And from present perspective, Sassouki Salma has curated a selection of short films about Palestine to open up a space for sharp criticism and deep reflection.

These sessions probe the relationships between domination and emancipation and question the categories of action and production. The work of Lotty Rosenfeld provides a lens that politicises aesthetic experience and critically subverts social and narrative categories in the relationship between domination and subordination. An artist and activist in an indissoluble relationship of roles, her resistant female body challenged hegemonic powers, normative bodies and all kinds of gender norms.

In collaboration with the CCCB, we explore how women of the Amazon rainforest view bodies and land through the work of Yanomami artist, researcher and leader Ehuana Yaira Yanomami, who will talk to journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the threat of genocide that illegal mining poses to her people.