2020-2021 COOP SUMMIT ~ 5 COOP study groups share their collective and collaborative research with each other and the public

Tuesday, October 5

COOP study group Curating Positions: Bodies and Antibodies in Cinema presents

Roving Assemblage: Anything Ghosts

“Do you remember the refrain?” I ask you.

Your gaze is mobile, submerged, it reflects and you reflect. You walk around and in-to, listen to its shape. You are in the middle of a sound that is moving. This enormous body that you can feel but not perceive. Only traces and directions testifying of different positions. Are we moving as one? Are you still moving? Followers are leading and you forget about your destination. You’re finding your way through a choreography of interwoven temporalities, ghostly reappearing through all senses. Boundaries spilling over and spiralling into each other.

Curating Positions 20-21 invites you to move and walk together to explore recurrences, remnants and bodily memories that keep us going, to a scattered gathering where only two things are sure: we depart and arrive together.

Curating Positions: Bodies and Antibodies in Cinema = Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter, Leire Vergara (tutor team) Krzysztof Bagiński, Miguel Ferráez, Elisa Giuliano, Maud Gyssels, Jan Pieter ‘t Hart, Nadja Henß, Niccolò Masini, Vera Mühlebach, Chiara Pagano, Mirjam Steffen, Anna Piroska Tóth, Isabelle Weber, Clara Winter ( student participants). Partnering institution: Bulegoa z/b

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COOP study group ReSituating and ReCalibrating Hostipitality presents

HOS(TI)PITALITY WAVE

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In days of displacement and distance, how do we transform and mutate? How do we arrive and be in motion? 

Someone turned the radio on, no one turned it off. Someone moved a tongue across the land, no one knew whose tongue it was. 

There once was a table that welcomed the waves, are you there, a voice whispered. 

Where are the hosts? Another voice collapsed. 

Who are the guests? The voice no longer sounds like a voice. 

And the ghosts? 

(pause)

Something turned the radio on. Nothing turned it off.

ReSituating and ReCalibrating Hospitality presents “Hos(ti)pitality Waves”. Departing from the radio station—which functions as a path within the radio programming itself—and performative acts gravitating around it, how can we speak of and reconceptualize cultures of hospitality in our times? With a focus on listening to images, the presentation will engage with speculative narrations of various genres as a means of rendering the invisible/visible, the audible/inaudible. Images will serve as maps to navigate the hybrid participatory stations which, along with the same spaces’ interstices, attempt in breaking the invisible borders.

Performative enactment, the sequential summoning of images and presences they carry in an act of storytelling, is a method based on Tina M. Campt intervention and proposal of listening to images. This intervention/proposal is aimed to address the quest of building radical archives of Black Diaspora. As Tina M. Campt suggests the visual archives, which are products of capture and subjection, cannot be reduced to be only a testimony of an encounter with power and state apparatus. Listening to images allows one to access their low and quiet frequencies and retrieve quotidian realities of those present and absent, within the frame of an image. 

Listening to the images is a method of hospitality. It poses the question how to be a guest to the realities and stories unknown and how to revisit the hostile environment of an archive. As such the method becomes a guidance for our arrival to Mallorca, to the island surrounded by the waves of the sea, which are carriers of the stories and lived realities. Transposing the method of listening to images into a method of making images to be listened to is grounding the micro-radio station. 

If you are on the island how can you tell where the water is coming from?

COOP study group On Tradition – Future Ancestors: let rhythm be your guiding light presents

I Wish I Were in the Pool With You Right Now

 Previously on Sunken Island: the pneumatics of your past. We’re longing to lap up pool water, but the pool was drained two falls ago—we lick at the air anyway. Out out in in in - heh heh hah hah hah - aaa aaa ee ee ooo. Spit runs down the dry water slide, drip drip drips into my container mouth. I rub it into the split, bonding the edges together, turn, rub it into your sunken chest and hope it puts the wind back into you, so that we can chant underwater.

On Tradition – Future Ancestors: let rhythm be your guiding light = Snejanka Mihaylova, Rory Pilgrim (tutor team), Ilgin Akseloglu, Bambi van Balen, Felix Bahret, Alexandra Duvekot, Dandelion Eghosa, Raffia Li, Marilú Mapengo Namoda, Kari Rosenfeld, Rosa Ronsdorf, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Iga Świeściak, Marie Tučková́, Rhodé Visser, Eli Witteman, Zane Zajančkauska, Lau ten Zeldam (student participants). Partnering institution: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. 

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Wednesday, October 6

COOP study group CHUSMA 2.0: A Coalition of Gossips presents

PR৲NSE of the WH❀❀LE

CHUSMA COOP Study Group invites you to join us in attending to our cacophony concert convergence, our processional procedural premonition(s). Dig down & dive into the whirls and whispers; trans-missions of opacity, gossips, silence(s), soft sharp cut splice layer lower lover moan. Follow threads of (in)visibility; together, to gather, t(w)o tongue. We can’t wait to be t/here with you.

A non commonsensical time-map calendar of chusmatic manifestations. Collected opacities through excessive delivery on the celebration of a new holiday. A collectivity of daily whispers, miscommunicated gossips, and practices of confi-dances. Recipes for disaster and herbal brews of untidy tongues. Public rituals, bingos, and unseen signs of resistance; untied and unsung. Cat-egories, spooneries and coalitions of broccolinis. Pussygami wink me baby one more time. Give your fortune to your elders, dance your theories away, sing to your fire escapes, in a word: it’s a sausage you won’t understand.