Arika Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas | Wed 11 Nov

Day 1 of Arika’s Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas. (link to intro page)
Five days of film, music, discussion and study.

Genocide’s Wake & To See In The Dark
Nicholas Mizroeff, David Lloyd
11am – 1pm
Discussion | Glasgow University venue TBA
Free & unticketed. First come first served

Nick is a leading Jewish Anti-Zionist scholar who helped found the discipline of visual culture. David is a poet, playwright, writer and a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.  They’ll talk about visibility and solidarity. 

Curating Absolute Disorder
Françoise Vergès & Nat Raha
3pm - 4.30pm
Discussion | Glasgow School of Art venue TBA
Free & unticketed. First come first served.

Join political theorist, curator and writer Françoise Vergès to delve deeper into her latest book, A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum, which dissects the colonial ideology that relies on, sustains and creates Western art traditions. Reflecting on the need for a radical overhaul, Vergès will share insights into the possibilities of a ‘post-museum’.

On the Necessity of Psychic Militancy
Lara Sheehi & Hannah Proctor
7 - 8.10pm
Discussion | Tramway
Ticketed via Wed Evening Pass

Psychoanalyst and author Lara Sheehi in conversation with Hannah Proctor. Lara explodes the naïve claim to neutrality of normative psychiatric care. Her concept of ‘psychic intrusions’ helps to identify the ways power seeks to mould the consciousness of the people it seeks to subjugate. Her idea of notion of ‘psychic militancy’ maps the resistance to such attempts.

Access: Live Captioning

Content Notes: Discussion of psychiatric care and its assimilation by colonial forces.

The Nakba in the Room
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri
8.30 - 10pm
Screening / Performance | Tramway
Ticketed via Wed Evening Pass

Where has art stood in the Nakba's perpetration? Nakba in the Room is a live film; improvised, wrestled and unmade in real space and time by two of the most brilliant film performance makers we've worked with.

Access: Live Captioning

Content Notes: This is an improvised video performance which may make use of archival and found footage, including documentation of war zones and sites of genocidal violence. Some of the imagery may be upsetting or disturbing. 

Dinner will be served by Soul Food Sisters in the Café (6-7pm).

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

About Episode Tickets
Evening Passes are Sliding Scale and you can choose what you pay based on your circumstances. The Evening Pass grants you access to the full night of events and Arika encourages you to stay for the full programme.

Produced by Arika

Programmed in collaboration with Counterflows, PANEL, Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies

Supported by Creative Scotland, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Tramway, and Glasgow Life

Image from The Nakba in the Room courtesy Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri