On Wounded Kinship, a screening followed by a performance by Chooc Ly Tan
Join us for a screening and sonic performance exploring encounters between nonhuman knowledges and sound as a relation.
By focusing on practices that work with nonlinear and deep time, this event aims to reconstruct an archive that consists of indecipherable voices and fugitive memories to think about (in)audibility, translatability and vulnerable or silenced archives.
Screenings by Tirzah & Fleur Melbourn, and Colectivo Los Ingravidos, followed by a performance by Chooc Ly Tan.
Programme
Tirzah and Fleur Melbourn, Recipe, 2022, 4:15 mins
Recipe explores an inverted world where bits of debris and skin drown shots, and light refractions cut through thick, polluted water. Light floods writhing skin as bodies dance in clear waters. The film is largely set around the deep waters of a shipwreck off the coast of Pireaus, Greece. Other shots are filmed at the meeting of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas in Crete. A sequel to the video discussing the migrant crisis in Greece and the split nature of the Mediterranean sea will be shot later this year.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, COYOLXAUHQUI, 2017, 9:46 mins
COYOLXAUHQUI recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
"Past and present gendered violence haunts Colectivo Los Ingrávidos’ Coyolxauhqui, a free jazz audiovisual composition in which the cacti of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley seem to be the only witnesses of femicide." Laura Huertas Millán
About the event
Free. Limited Capacity.
Booking is required.
The duration of the event is two hours. Seating is available.
Access
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Speakers will use microphones.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
There are no audio descriptions for this event.
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Safety during your visit
Please do not attend this event if you/someone in your household is currently COVID-19 positive, has suspected symptoms or is awaiting test results.
Staff and visitors are welcome to wear a face mask in all areas.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations on documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory that are political possibilities in their own right
Fleur Melbourn is a visual artist and writer. Working mainly with video, her work deals with issues of trauma, classism and patriarchy, and the body and city as spaces of sociopolitical control. Using non-linear, layered narratives, protagonists are placed in a continual tug of war between fiction and reality. Dense scripts, chopped dialogue and repetition explore social relationships where emotion, gender, class and history are co-opted by systems of power. Exhibitions, commissions and residencies include; The Sculpture Center (NYC), The Serpentine Gallery (UK), Triangle France (FR), Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (CH), Jerwood Visual Arts (UK), The Austrian Cultural Forum (UK), Camden Arts Centre (UK), Le Bourgeois (UK), Belsunce Projects (FR) and Moly Sabata (FR).
Tirzah is a singer and songwriter based in South London. Her two critically acclaimed studio albums, both produced by close friend Mica Levi, were released by Domino in 2018 and 2021. In 2022 Tirzah embarked on headline tours of the UK, Europe, and North America. Her videos, shot by friends and collaborators, accompany Tirzah’s understated but affecting melodies and warm electronic production, sometimes centre the artist and others as performers, but just as often open a window onto the community around her music.
Event:
On Wounded Kinship, a screening followed by a performance by Chooc Ly TanDates:
23 Jun 2023, 6pm–8pmCurated by:
Canan Batur, assisted by Philippa Douglas
Supported by:
