COOP ~ Curating Positions: Voz de Tierra from Day to Day
Seminar 4: 21 - 23 May 2025
With: Marwa Arsanios
We will dedicate the whole confluence to prepare our coop summit. We will start by
delving into already gathered material and text in order to re-write it and orchestrate the
material we already have.
While trying to give form and shape to our material we will look at specific examples
and references and decide on the direction our final presentation will take.
Different recording and performance exercises will be proposed over the days.
Wednesday 21st May
10.00-13.00: Working on the script
14.15-15.00: Meeting with Philippa and Peter
15.00-20.30: Working on the script + Film screening and discussion
Thursday 22nd May
10.00-13.00: Writing and recording exercises with the material
14.15-20.30: Writing and recording exercises with the material
Friday 23rd May
10.00-13.00: Working on the material
14.15-19.00: Working on the material + Wrap up, timetable and organization of work
for the summit
Seminar 3: 27 - 29 March 2025
With: Leire Vergara, Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter, Haytham el-Wardany
and Ali Hussein Al-Adawy in collaboration with study group ~ Living Room:
Rehearsals towards Place-making
Literature: Children of the Dew by Mohammed Al-Assad, Chapter 1 and 8
27th of MARCH
The day will be dedicated to an excursion to Famagusta in collaboration with
study group ~ Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making.
10.00-19.00: Excursion to Famagusta in collaboration with study group ~ Living
Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making
20:00-22.00: Discussion/Reflection on material and trip
28th of MARCH
The day will be dedicated to a workshop led by Haytham al Wardany and
followed by a screening with Ali al Adawy. All the session are a collaboration
with study group ~ Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making.
10:30-13:00: writing workshop with Haytham Al Wardany in collaboration with
study group ~ Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making
14:00-18:00: writing workshop with Haytham Al Wardany in collaboration with
study group ~ Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making
20.00-22:00: Film screening presented by Ali al Adawy
29th of MARCH
We will allocate most of the day to student-led workshops, beginning with a
student-led by Asmaa Barakat and Olfa Arfaoui, followed by a discussion. Then
we will work on making masks in response to “Nuestra Voz de Tierra” and
present the outcomes and discuss. Please bring any material you specifically
would like to work with.
Towards the evening we will start the conversation on the coop summit project,
introduced by a discussion on our budget to develop proposals.
In the end we will form a nocturnal committee and engage in a session of Dark
Cinema Tarot, a work by artists Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson.
10.30-12.00: Student-led Asmaa Barakat and Olfa Arfaoui + discussion
12.00-13.00: Collective student-led: Masks for the voice of the land
14.00-17.00: Continuation Collective student-led
17.00-18.00: Presentation and Discussion
18.00-19.00: Discussion budget and ideas for COOP summit
20.00-22.00: Continuation budget and ideas for COOP summit
Dark Matter Cinema Tarot
Seminar 2: 14 - 17 January 2025
We will be working with voice exercises with artist Itziar Okariz. We will depart from a presentation by her own practice and then we will take some works of her and offer them as exercises. Some of these exercises will be propsed for interior spaces and we will use microphone for them. Others (for example around the work Irrintzi a Basque shout) will be executed outside and we will be learning how to offer one of these shouts into the landscape. We would connect these exercises with previous shared readings like Quantum listening by Pauline Oliveiros, but also with other artistic concerns proper to Okariz’s practice.
We will also work with our dreams (taking into guidance another work of Itziar on dreams). We would like to concentrate on working with the voice Tuesday and Friday in order to develop a collective practice and experimental approach to the idea behind the title of our Coop. Voz de tierra (Land’s voice). This idea connects to paralanguage practices and a conception of voice beyond human demarcations.
We will watch tAxut by Basque Filmmaker Jose Maria Zabala thanks to the permission of the author himself and the Basque Film Archive (Euskadiko Filmategia/Filmoteca Vasca).
Everyday we will start with a Prana Yoga class that will be led by Itziar Okariz.
Tuesday 14th January
10.00-10.30: Prana Yoga class led by Itziar Okariz
10.30-13.00: Presentation by Itziar Okariz
15.00-19.00: Voices exercises for an interior space led by Itziar Okariz
20.00: Film screening and discussion
Wednesday 15th January
10.00-10.30: Prana Yoga class led by Itziar Okariz
10.30-11-30: Brief introduction by Leire Vergara and Itziar Okariz
11.30-12.30: Student-led 1
12.30-13.00: Discussion
15.00-16.00: Student-led 2
16.00-16.30: Discussion
16.30-17.30: Student-led 3
17.30-18.00: Discussion
18.00-19.00: Student-led 4
20.00-22.00: Discussion
Thursday 16th January
10.00-10.30: Prana Yoga class led by Itziar Okariz
10.30-13.00: Voices exercises for an exterior space led by Itziar Okariz
15.00-19.00: Reading session with Marwa Arsanios (online)
20.00: Film screening and discussion
Friday 17th January
10.00-10.30: Prana Yoga class led by Itziar Okariz
10.30-13.00: Voices exercises for an exterior space led by Itziar Okariz continues
15.00-18.00: Voices exercises for an interior space led by Itziar Okariz continues
Seminar 1: 10 - 12 December 2024
Tuesday 10th
Morning: Presentations Leire Vergara, Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter
Afternoon: Presentations of practices: all participants are asked to present their work in a 20 minutes presentation.
Evening: Film screening and discussion
Wednesday 11th
Morning: Walk
Afternoon: Continuation of presentations, practicalities and logistics
Evening: Conversation on working together
Thursday 12th
Morning: Writing exercise: we will delve into a collective writing exercise that departs from our film screening and discussion on Tuesday, and will attempt to formulate a possible address to a particular piece of land.
Afternoon: Filming workshop: we will attempt to translate what comes out of our writing exercises into filmed time-based material.
Evening: Wrap-up
Reading List
Reading the Dead: A Black Feminist Poethical Reading of Global Capital
Further Readings
The Militant Image: A Ciné‐Geography
Excerpt from Wood, David Michael John: Revolution and pachakuti : political and indigenous cinema in Bolivia and Colombia. PhD thesis, King's College, University of London, 2005. 189–206.