Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It | Thu 14 Nov

Day 2 of Arika – Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It, five days of film, music, discussion and study

Thursday afternoon at the Episode features study sessions: around Muslim social life and collectivity, as manifested in a series of scores that recognise the revolutionary potential of already existing vernacular practices of prayer or faith; and an indigenous critique of Western monocultural thought around gender, race, sexuality.

The evening is dedicated to a programme of artists moving image work, that in different ways engage with relationships between the Caribbean and the impositions of Western thinking (notions of the self, land or nature), and engage with grief, repair, revenge and militant organising. 

Bring a Witness
Sadia Shirazi and Mezna Qato
1.30pm to 2.45pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free - First Come, First Served

Sadia and Mezna will share the thinking and sociality behind their 7 SCORES and THE PMK project: an instructional book of scores for Muslim sociality. The project draws from archives of prayer books and religious manuals in English, Urdu and Arabic as well as vernacular practices that are not scored. The book draws on Sadia and Mezna’s experience of Muslim, Urdu and Arabic speaking diasporic sociality. It reflects on Muslim social life and collectivity and asks not so much "what is to be done?" as "what do we already do?"

Against a monoculture of thought
Geni Núñez and Amilcar Packer
3.15 to 4.45pm
Talk, Workshop
Tramway 4
Access: Live Captioning
Tickets: Free - First Come, First Served

Geni is of one of the leading emerging Indigenous voices in Brazil. They write on what Ailton Krenak has called “the monolithic imposition of a single world”, and expand that thinking to address how European ways of knowing the world have violently imposed destructive binary norms of monogamy, monotheism, monosexism—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender that have no meaning in many Indigenous worldviews.

BARRUNTO
Emilia Beatriz
6pm to 7.25pm
Film
Tramway 1
Access: BSL and Live Captioned Intro. Subpacs available. Caribe Spanish, English, Scots Gaelic with integrated captions and sound descriptions in English.
Tickets: Thursday Evening Pass

InforInformed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance, BARRUNTO is a speculative narrative using digital, archival, and 16mm film hand-processed in “grief tea.” An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed; in sites of displacement, nuclear contamination, and military occupation from Scotland to Puerto Rico; from the bottom of the ocean to the planet Uranus.     

The film includes flashing images, strobe effects and loud noises.

A Plot, A Scandal
Ligia Lewis
7.40pm to 8.10pm
Film
Tramway 1
Access: Pre-recorded Artist Comments with BSL and Live Captioned. Subpacs available.
English Subtitles
Tickets: Thursday Evening Pass

Ligia makes conceptual choreography as critique. Her film A Plot, A Scandal, which recently featured in the Whitney Biennial, Ligia drags John Locke, who’s Second Treatise of Government (1689), set out Man’s ‘natural rights’ to life, liberty and property: ownership of himself, his body, his status as human, and his right to own and extract from anything he deems less-than-human. She invokes Cuban/ Yoruban ‘Black’ José Aponte’s plotting of a slave rebellion in 1812. And she‘s haunted by the spirit of her grandmother, Lolón Zapata, who courted scandal by using her plot of land to perform the Afro-Cuban spiritual practice of palo.

Ligia has prepared a short film for us to watch after the film, in which she discusses her thinking and practice. 

Oriana
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
8.25pm to 10.15pm
Film
Tramway 1
Access: English subtitles. Subpacs available. BSL and Live Captioned Q and A.
Tickets: Thursday Evening Pass

A band of militant feminists—mostly close collaborators and acquaintances of Santiago Muñoz—inhabit an undefined space-time of post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, in Beatriz’s translation of Monique Wittig’s landmark 1969 feminist novel Les Guérillères. Filled with inexplicable encounters, Oriana unfolds across forests, caves, rivers, and the ruins of industrial and colonial infrastructures. Through frenzied choreographic interludes and silent rituals, this elaborate audiovisual experience charts a world of perceptual distortions and collective processes to map the sensorial unconscious of imagined anti-colonial organising.

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. 

Produced by Arika