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Between the 13.-26. of August, Barly Thsibos and Nanna Katrine Hansen will take over the place of Astrid Noack’s Atelier making a research space and through various method be looking for decolonial ways of working together across privileges given to individuals by the nation state. How can we attempt to navigate privilege? How do we work together in subversive ways? How do we break existing power structures in ways that take intersectionality into account? What are the different ways of decolonization amongst those on the side of the oppressor and the oppressed?

PROGRAMME:

FILM SCREENING: BORN IN FLAMES + conversation on intersectional ways of working together

Thursday 16/8 – 7-9.30 pm

Born in Flames (1983) by Lizzie Borden is a feminist science fiction, a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social democratic cultural revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women – across lines of race, class, and sexual preference – emerges to blow the System apart.

After the film screening we will open the space for a talk about Intersectionality and Intersectionality of Struggles (Angela Davis) – meaning bringing various social justice struggles together, across national borders and against coloniality and racial capitalism.

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WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO FORUM THEATER

Sunday 19/8 – 2-4 pm

The theater of the oppressed, developed by scriptwriter and activist Augusto Boal from Brazil, is a experimental method to practice strategies to counteract oppression through theatre exercises and the creation of scenes with inspiration from lived experiences. The method creates an embodiment of forms of resistance, which opens up spaces of possibility and imagination. The sensorial dialogue, which the method can create, is both an artistic and activist tool that points to the future. The idea is to develop a series of scene, which entails a level of oppression. The scenes will first be acted out, thereafter they will be rewinded and replayed where audience can interfere in the scene, replace an actor and try to enact a attempt of breaking the oppression.

The workshop will be an introduction to forum theatre by artists Margarita del Carmen and Kristian Byskov.

The workshop is for the people involved in material production during the research period at ANA, which are individuals and groups dealing with questions of working together across privilege in relation to citizenship and racialization in their work and practices.

WORKSHOP: COLLECTIVE WRITING

Tuesday 21/8 – 4-7 pm

In this workshop we will try different writing exercises and focus on ways of collective writing. It will aim at opening up ideas for how to write a radio drama, so we will try to write parts for a scene and dialogues.

The workshop will be facilitated by author and member of VisAvis Hannah Lutz.

The workshop is for the people involved in material production during the research period at ANA, which are individuals and groups dealing with questions of working together across privilege in relation to citizenship and racialization in their work and practices.

TALK: MAKING WHITENESS STRANGE/BEING A WHITE ALLIED/ACCOMPLICE

Thursday 23/8 – 7-9 pm

‘The burden is on whiteness’ as activist and writer Lesley-Ann Brown once phrased it. When talking and working critically with migration and racism, a first step is to problematize whiteness and europeanness – this in order to act on it and break with whitesupremacy.

You might ask why to put focus on this, since whiteness already is the totality and in most contexts at the centre. What we hope with this talk is to expose the blind angles that whiteness bring and take responsibility for this. This is a long process, which is nor easy or comfortable.We want to discuss together how to be a white allied or accomplice in struggles around migration and racism. How to move beyond guild and see this work as decolonial move, which is both material and collective. It raises questions about access and who leads the struggles. Based on already written material, we hope to discuss and elaborate on ethics of working together across privilege.

As the revolutionary, decolonial author and activist, Frantz Fanon writes: “This colossal task, which consists of reintroducing man into the world, man in his totality, will be achieved with the crucial help of the European masses who would do well to confess that they have often rallied behind the position of our common masters on colonial issues. In order to do this the, the European masses must first of all decide to wake up, put on their thinking caps and stop playing the irresponsible game of Sleeping Beauty”.

The workshop is for the people involved in material production during the research period at ANA, which are individuals and groups dealing with questions of working together across privilege in relation to citizenship and racialization in their work and practices.

FISH BOWL CONVERSATION: DECOLONIAL STRATEGIES OF WORKING TOGETHER

Saturday 25/8 – 4 – 7 pm

We have invited different groups who have experience with working together across privilege to bring their experience and we want to create a learning space for the strategies the groups use. In an interactive dialogue method, fishbowl conversation, we will discuss the questions of how we can attempt to navigate privilege? How do we work together in subversive ways? How do we break existing power structures in ways that take intersectionality into account? What are the different ways of decolonization amongst those on the side of the oppressor and the oppressed? Which alliances are valuable to make and what should they circle around.

The hope with the talk, is to formulate drafts for ethics of working together across privilege.

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