PERSPECTIVES ON complex complicities – towards antiracist feminist stages
A collaboration between UrbanApa and Haut as part of BRIDGES 2022
Complex complicities is a small but very important step towards creating Nordic discourse about antiracist and feminist practices in Nordic contemporary stages. Helsinki-based antiracist and feminist arts community UrbanApa joins HAUT in creating a 2 day seminar in Copenhagen with the theme Complex Complicities – towards antiracist feminist stages.
The seminar will be held 14th and 15th of November 2022, at:
( OBS new address, see below )
Teaterøen,
Refshalevej 320, 1432 Kbh K.
(in the room 'Hvide Annekssal', with level-free access. Toilet is on the ground floor, but has unfortunately not level-free access, as it has one step up).
The seminar is free but signup is required. You can signup with your email down below.
OBS: by using this signup form, we have automatically registered your participation in the seminar.
We look forward to seeing you.
Complex Complicities is a part of BRIDGES, a project designed to strengthen sustainable and long-term Nordic collaboration in the realms of antiracist and intersectionally feminist practices. The project is funded by Nordic Culture Point and produced by UrbanApa arts platform based in Helsinki. The seminar is supported and hosted by HAUT, a performing arts organization based in Copenhagen. 'PERSPECTIVES ON' is a HAUT format, which funded by Bikubenfonden.
THE PROGRAMME
Monday 14th of November | “HOW TO CHANGE THINGS”
13:00 Welcome words by Sonya Lindfors (UrbanApa) & Betina Rex (HAUT)
13.15-13.55 Keynote
How to Change Things? | Keynotespeaker: Abdul Dude
A burning question shared by feminism, antiracism, decoloniality. How to change dominant structures, narratives and working ways that are exclusive, harmful or oppressive? What kind of changes have taken place in the Danish context? And how to work together towards the changes that are necessary and vital. Audre Lorde said The Master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, but we should still keep trying.
13:55 – 14:15 5 min break & 15 min reflections
14:15 – 15:30 Panel discussion
Intersectionality in practice! - navigating the complexity | Facilitated by Malik Grosos
Intersectionality is hard! Our institutions as well as artists struggle to host diversity. In this panel discussion local artists from different contexts share their insight and tools for intersectional practices. Sharing is caring.
PANELISTISTS: Oriane Paras /Dance.cooperative, Marie Kaae & Julienne Doko
15:30 – 15:45 5 min break / reflections 15min
15:45 – 16:45 Roundtable discussions
How to work together | Facilitated by Sonya Lindfors
In this session participants are invited to discuss, share tools and strategies in how to work together towards a better, more equitable and more diverse artfield.
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye.
17:00 – 18:00 Hang out, drinks & music
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Tuesday 15th of November | “TOWARDS INTERSECTIONAL HORIZONS”
13:00 – 13:10 Welcome words by Sonya Lindfors (UrbanApa) & Betina Rex (HAUT)
13.15 - 13.55 Keynote
The conditions of dreaming: cultural politics, separatism and the issue of being ‘too many’ | Keynotespeakers: Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt & Anna Meera GaonkarWe will start the second day by diving deeper into the question of complex complicities. How can institutions, platforms, policies, and artists host diversity? How can we navigate through the different national and institutional frames and our needs, hopes, and challenges in and of the present? Can means be distributed by turning towards strategies of feminism?
13:55 – 14:15 5 min break / 15 min. reflections
14:15 – 15:30 Panel discussion
What's next? – complicitness and the power of imagination | Facilitated by Kai Merke
The future is tomorrow, in five years, in 50 years and in 500 years. It is constantly created by us collectively. Our imaginations shape potential futures, how far can we dream? Can we dream of an artfield that would be diverse and vibrant? Can we imagine futures that can be inclusive, diverse and joyous?
In this conversation, panelists are invited to discuss dreams of possible and impossible futures, the freedom as well as the responsibility of artists as creators of narratives as well as the notion of hope.
PANELISTS: Yong Sun Gullach, Vala T. Foltyn, Jupiter Child
15:30 – 15:45 5 min break / 15 min reflections
15:45 – 16:45 round table discussions
Dreaming session - speculation and institutional dreaming | Facilitated by Sonya Lindfors
In this second round table session, participants are invited to discuss, share tools and collectively dream about possible and impossible futures. What would the Danish art field look like, if it could truly host diversity? How would artists work if social & ecological sustainability would be the premise of all art making.
As the pioneer of Afrofuturism Sun Ra has once said: The possible has been tried and failed, now it is time to try the impossible.
16:45 – 17:00
Wrap up and goodbye.
17:00 – 18:00
Hang out, drinks & music
