performingborders presents the “Our Bodies within the Commons” occasion on the Battersea Arts Centre in London, United Kingdom livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Saturday 29 April 2023 at 8 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 16:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 17:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).
After three years of digital-only transnational collaborations, performingborders is opening an area for motion, sharing, and dialog, to re-center our our bodies within the explorations of borders, dwell artwork, group, and resistance.
In this occasion, performingborders will create a gathering that considers what we will do after we harness our sources, time, our bodies, and care, to collectivize them. Starting from a spot of lived expertise, “Our Bodies within the Commons” strikes away from disembodied and individualized discourse round solidarity and care, in direction of actions and gestures which are constructing and sustaining collective methods of working collectively.
Rallying the Commons Reading Karaoke: Rustling Words
Youngsook Choi will information us via performingborders’ newest e-journal Rallying the Commons. Our journey via the journal will embrace embodied interventions into its content material, texts, and pictures to collectively discover different methods of working collectively. Through the format of a Reading Karaoke, we are going to experiment with communal studying as a web site of radical pleasure, collective un/studying and solidarity constructing. This part might be joined by contributors to the e-journal – Ximena Alarcón-DÃaz, Harun Morrison and Helena Walsh.
The day will finish with a screening of It is unattainable to say the whole lot right here so I depart you with this (video), a efficiency to digicam by SERAFINE1369 which we commissioned final yr.