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Feminist School: Hear Me Out: A Teach-in on Conflict Expression

9.07.2023
12:00-17:00 (welcome from 11:30)
Teach-in
English spoken, whisper translation when needed | all ages | accessible for visually impaired people | accessible for hearing impaired people
Relaxed performance
Budatoren
Pay what you can (€0/€5/€10/€15)
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Lunch is included in the teach-in. We ask for a free contribution for this on the spot.

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A SPIN project for The Feminist School

Queer-feminist collectivity is often created under precarious conditions by people looking for places of belonging outside of normative social-political structures. The collectivities we create can give us solidarity, support, and pleasure, but they can also be places in which conflicts arise, and there is a lot at stake. Hear Me Out will bring together the knowledges of invited guests and audience to develop strategies that might help us navigate conflict expression and build stronger communities

Queer-feminist collectivity is often created under precarious conditions by people looking for places of belonging outside of normative social-political structures. The collectivities we create can give us solidarity, support, and pleasure, but they can also be places in which conflicts arise, and there is a lot at stake. In these moments of conflict, how do we stay in community with those we are in conflict with? What tools and strategies do we have to express our pain and hurt to each other without putting ourselves or the collectivity we so urgently need in danger? What modes of expression and listening might help us to learn and heal? How do we take conflict with us as we move forward together?

Departing from the notion of the school, we will hold a “teach-in” to bring together the knowledges of invited guests and audience to think through and develop tools and strategies that might help us navigate conflict expression and build stronger communities together. The teach-in is a model of sharing practical and urgent knowledge that has part of its his/her/theirstory in the aids activism that emerged out of New York City during the early years of the crisis. Teach-ins happen within a space of common cause, curiosity, and circumstantial connection in which the active centralization of a question or problem can create a proliferation of new knowledges and partnerships.

Our invited guests will include conflict mediator Aline Bauwens, community-based project Creatives with Unseen Disabilities, social healer Lucas Johnson, and writer and activist Olave Nduwanje.

This SPIN project is curated by Marnie Slater and James Parnell, produced by Laura Deschepper and coproduced by Kunstencentrum BUDA, WORM (Rotterdam) and SPIN (Brussels). Visuals are made by Sevgi Tan.

Lunch is included in the teach-in. We ask for a free contribution for this on the spot.

The Feminist School is part of the European programmeapap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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SPIN is an independent support and research platform for artistic practice, currently carried by Anna Rispoli, Diederik Peeters, Hans Bryssinck, Kate McIntosh, Marnie Slater, and Sarah Parolin. SPIN is a Brussels-based organization, with collaborators also currently active in Berlin and Mexico City.

Marnie Slater (she/her): I am a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently living in Brussels. I am co-curator of Buenos Tiempos, Int. and a team member of Mothers & Daughters – A Lesbian* and Trans* Bar*. I am currently teaching on the AdMa program at St Lucas Antwerpen, where I am also undertaking a year-long research project on process tools for queer, feminist and anti-racist collaborative art making.

James Parnell (he/him): I am an educator, curator, dancer, and zinester based in The Hague. I am focused on collective knowledge sharing and learning through teaching, publications (zines), and performance. I am the curator and organizer of the WORM Pirate Bay, an archival community space at WORM Rotterdam. I am also the co-curator of BARTALK- a lecture, performance and storytelling series that uses knowledge sharing as community building.

Laura Deschepper (they/she): I am an art worker from Belgium who lives in Rotterdam. In both countries I have focussed on community interventions, art production, visual art exhibitions and arts administration. Since 2018, I am co-founder of Queer Rotterdam, a community run platform which aims to connect, support and activate the queers of Rotterdam and beyond. Recently I have started working as cultural policy advisor at Gemeente Schiedam.

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