6 sessions
120 min each
Every Tuesday
From Dec. 6th to Jan. 24th
18:30 to 20:30
(CET)
English
Rhubaba Gallery and Studios
150€
15% student discount
For student discount or registration to the full Network Program, send an email to studies@instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org
Water grounds our lives, from our beginnings in liquid, to our bodies as its containers. Hydro Futures / Memory Ecologies holds a space for research and investigation into our relationships with water through the frameworks of Afrofuturism and Black Geographies. The fields of Afrofuturism and Black Geographic study offer modes of thought and imagination that centre Black spatial thinking and agency. They critique both the erasure of Blackness within the whiteness and coloniality of geographical thought and analyse how the entanglements of race, class, gender, and sexuality determine patterns of habitation, denial, and resistance. (Re)thinking with water requires a fluid reimagining of time, as it serves as an archive of memory and of history - water is its own storyteller. In using Afrofuturism as a lens to creatively and critically view water with, its ecological position is expanded upon to consider its role in the past, present, and possible future(s). Hydro Futures / Memory Ecologies is an offering that prompts a close listening to water’s retellings. The invited speakers bring together conversations about the mythical, political and personal value of water, as we ourselves connect across time and (non)place throughout the seminar series. The speakers in this seminar series consider the influence of Afrofuturism and Black Geographies on their work in the fields of visual art, poetry, literature, queer and gender studies, and psychotherapy. We invite you to participate in these encounters where we hope to engage in important conversations to create more desirable futures.
Need-based scholarships are available, apply here.
The Institute for Postnatural Studies and Rhubaba Gallery & Studios are pleased to offer up to 10 scholarships for BPOC* attendees to join the online seminar, free of charge. The aim of this scholarship offer is to address the specific systemic barriers that attendees may face directly or indirectly based on their ethnic or national identities, race or perceived racial identities, or the colour of their skin.
*BPOC stands for ‘Black people, People of Colour’ and is a self-identifying term. While we use the term BPOC, we acknowledge the limitations of this terminology. This includes people who identify as Black, brown, people of colour, Global Majority, mixed-race, multiple heritage and/or are from the Global South, and/or are East and South-East Asian, West Asian, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, African-Caribbean, Caribbean, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or First Nations, and diasporas.
6 / 12 / 2022 - Deborah Jack
24 / 1 / 2023 - Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
31 / 1 / 2023 - Chan Fagan - Clarke
For student discount or registration to the full Network Program, send an email to studies@instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org