Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It | Fri 15 Nov

Day 3 of Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It, five days of film, music, discussion and study

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Join us on Friday at the Episode for… Workshops about Muslim sociality animated through instructional scores, and critical tools for young people to fight alongside the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation. An artist’s talk and Study Sessions about and politically synthetic music making and critiques of late liberalism.  And in the evening a major conversation between some of the leading voices around Blackness and Indigeneity in the arts globally. 

Glasgow School of Art Friday Event
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
11am to 1pm
Talk, Film
PLEASE NOTE VENUE  - Glasgow School of Art Reid Lecture Theatre
Access: See GSA website for Access
Tickets: Free - First Come First Served

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, expanded cinema and feminist practices. For this talk and screening event, she will reflect on Oriana (which screens at the Episode on Thursday) and its companion piece Œnanthe. She will discuss how they were made (what it means to filmicly translate an experimental novel); and how they enact relationships between plural protagonists, the land, and the non-human world, beyond possessive individualism.  

When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?
Sadia Shirazi and Mezna Qato
11am to 2pm
Workshop
Tramway 4
Access: General Episode Access 
Tickets: FREE – Reservation Required, book here

An inter-generational workshop open to BIPOC engaged or interested in ritual practices of grief, mourning, body work or somatic practices of care, inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.

The word shaheed is used for both witness and martyr in languages ranging from Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Pushto, Kashmiri, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Swahili, Hausa and Somali. Amidst the scale of the ongoing violence, genocides and unfathomable grief that is being experienced across the world, this workshop attempts to hold a space for mourning and commemoration. In a dimly lit space, participants will be led through a series of scores, facilitated by Sadia and Mezna. They will be joined by Sakina Ali, who will recite an elegiac poem in Urdu penned by Munshi Chhunnilal Dilgeer, from which the title of the workshop is drawn. 

Sonic Fictions
Rashad Becker
1.30pm to 3pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4 and live stream
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free – First Come First Served

Rashad is celebrated for create intense, intriguing synthetic body music, that bypasses melody, harmony and meter, and opens up microtonal spaces between sounds or their complex relationships and structures. Behind this, his music’s sonic qualities are a manifestation of specific, historically aware communist politics. For this study session, Rashad will chat about his way of manifesting complex historical situations as speculative sonic fictions to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences, based on the Shining Path Communist Party of Peru, Syrian migration, the Red Army Factions insistence on being tried as prisoners of war, or the choral properties of texts written by the SPK—sozialistisches patienten kollektiv.

Analytics of Existence
Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Mijke van der Drift
3.45pm to 5.30pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4 and live stream
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free – First Come First Served

Elizabeth is one of the most influential anthropologists and critical theorists in the arts globally. Her writing, teaching and art-making (as part of the Karrabing Film Collective) puts forward a vital critique of late liberalism, toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify them. For this study session long-time Arika friend Mijke van der Drift will be asking Beth to share some of her thinking about: ancestral catastrophes, the cunning of late liberalism, and alternative distribution of powers, that contribute to forms of existence or ways of being otherwise enduring.  

Hussein Mitha
Intifada, Revolution! An anti-imperialist resource for young people
4pm to 6pm
Workshop
Tramway Studio
Access: None
Tickets: Free – Reservation Required, book here

Hussein is organising a workshop for young people, and anyone who works in youth education to think about and practice critical tools to fight alongside the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation. 

The workshop will take as its starting point Intifada! Revolution! A new anti-imperialist resource for young people edited by Hussein Mitha, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and artworks. It explores what anti-imperialist resistance looks like for young people in the imperial metropole, and asks how young people can respond to the calls of the Palestinian resistance.

More than Perfect
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Arissana Pataxó, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Geni Núñez & Ailton Krenak (by video)
7pm to 10pm
Talk
Tramway 1 and live stream
Access: BSL, Live Captioning and Portuguese into English Translation
Tickets: Friday Evening Pass

What if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? What if we considered that this may well result from both ecological and social devastations as well as radical propositions and programs for another world, a better world, whatever that may look like? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come? How to imagine it collaboratively?  Denise Ferreira da Silva

For More than Perfect, Denise and Amilcar have gathered some of the leading radical indigenous voices globally to be in conversation. Geni is an indigenous Guarani and queer activist, and emerging voice in the Brazilian thought. Leanne is one of the most compelling indigenous voices in Turtle Island (‘North America’). Arissana belongs to the Pataxó people in Brazil, and is one of the curators of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennial. Ailton is considered one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement and will contribute by video as he is no longer able to attend in person.

Full schedule, programme notes and access details for all Episode events is available on the Arika website.  

About our tickets
Episode Evening Pass tickets are on a sliding scale and you can choose what to pay based on your circumstances. Paying for tickets helps support the work and the artists at the festival, so please do so if you can. We have a number of free tickets available on a first come first serve basis for those who would like to come but need to access a free ticket to do so. Please email tramwayboxoffice@glasgowlife.org.uk to reserve these - this email is managed during our opening hours Wednesday – Sunday. 

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