We will bring our ghosts 

17th Jun 2021 6:00pm - 21st Jun 2021 8:00pm 

A two-part online study session with Denise Ferreira da Silva, Valentina Desideri, and Arjuna Neuman.

Part 1: Thursday, 17 June 2021, 18.00–20.00 BST

Part 2: Monday, 21 June 2021, 18.00–20.00 BST

This study session will be a collective poethical reading. We will listen to the audio of Arjuna and Denise’s new film while Denise and Valentina send reiki. We will take some time to feel what ghosts this brings for everyone and make some notation of the feelings and the ghosts. We will bring our ghosts together and gather a collective question for a poethical reading. We will do one round of reading using tarot cards and one round using one of Arjuna and Denise’s previous films (4 Waters–Deep Implicancy, Serpent Rain) as a deck. What comes up with the tarot will guide how to approach the film as a deck. We will have some space and time for what is gathered to land and pass through as needed.

 

Registration

Please register here: https://ghostsandfools.wufoo.com/forms/we-will-bring-our-ghosts/

You’ll be asked to write a few sentences (or send a short audio message) about your

interest in attending. Please register only if you are certain to attend. It is essential that you can commit to both days. There is a maximum capacity of 30 participants for the event, of which 10 places are reserved for Techne students. When registering, please indicate whether you are a

Techne student (full member or associated).

 

Access information

Please use the options on the registration form to tell us about any access needs. The session will primarily take place online, on Zoom. We will use auto-captioning from otter.ai, which is not perfect, but we can offer a corrected transcript after the event. If that would be useful to you, please let us know when you register. The event will mostly involve talking, listening to a soundtrack, and looking at visual materials (film stills and tarot cards) together. A sound description of the soundtrack can be provided if you let us know when you register. The reiki that will be sent is available to all bodies. Visual descriptions can also be provided live during the event by one of the organisers – let us know if you need this when you register so we can arrange how to organise it with your tech set up.

We may also use interfaces such as Padlet or Vimeo, which will be linked in the chat function during the event. You will not need to subscribe to these platforms for access, and using them will be optional. We recommend using a stable internet connection and headphones. We would like to ask everyone to have cameras switched on at all times where possible, and microphones switched off when not speaking. The intention of the study days is a supportive and exploratory atmosphere with

plenty of room for discussion. In order to allow for moments of rest, we will be taking breaks throughout the sessions. The event will only be recorded in the case that someone attending needs a corrected transcript for their access reasons. Such a recording would not be stored or made available afterwards.

For any general or access enquiries please email dalyclare@gmail.com

 

Preparation

A prompt to consider before the session will be shared, along with optional materials to explore, following registration.

 

Participant biographies

An academic and practicing artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work addresses

the ethico-political challenges of the global present. She is the author of Toward a

Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel

(Oficina da Imaginacāo Politica and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt

(Sternberg/MIT Press, forthcoming) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race,

Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Her

several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as

Social Text, Theory, Culture & Society, Social Identities, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law

Review, Theory & Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her artistic works

include the films Serpent Rain (2016) and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), in

collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical

Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri. She has

exhibited and lectured at major art venues, such as the Pompidou Center (Paris),

Whitechapel Gallery (London, MASP (Sāo Paulo), Guggenheim (New York), and

MoMa (New York). She has also written for publications for major art events

(Liverpool Biennale, 2017; Sao Paulo Biennale, 2016, Venice Biennale, 2017, and

Documenta 14) and published in art venues, such as Canadian Art, Texte Zur Kunst,

and E-Flux. `

She is a member of several boards, including Haus de Kulturen de Welt (Berlin),

International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs and the journals Postmodern

Culture, Social Identities, and Dark Matter.

 

Valentina Desideri explores art making as a form of study and study as a form of

making art. She trained in contemporary dance at the Laban Centre in London

(2003–2006), later on did her MA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in

Amsterdam (2011–13) and is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice

Institute at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She does Fake Therapy

and Political Therapy, and is one of the co-organizes of Performing Arts Forum in

France. She speculates in writing with Stefano Harney, she engages in Poethical

Readings and gathers Sensing Salons with Denise Ferreira da Silva, she is part of

the Oficina de Imaginacao Politica, she reads and writes.

 

Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane, that’s why he has two passports. He is an

artist, filmmaker and writer.