In Practice w/ FAR Night School:
On Academia-Activism Collaboration
Tuesday, 17.11.2020
18:00-20:00
Museum of Impossible Forms
Museum of Impossible Forms and FAR Night School are happy to announce the next session of In Practice, in collaboration with FAR Night School. The session will take place in the Museum of Impossible Forms, as well as online via Zoom. Please register (info below to relieve the zoom link)
This time we will be joined by Leonardo Custódio (Åbo Akademi, ARMA Alliance), with whom we will watch the documentary Complexos (Cafuné na Laje/ARMA Alliance, 2020, 26 mins) and discuss the different aspects of collaboration between academia and activism by having a conversation about the making of the documentary.
Some questions we address in the session are:
What kinds of challenges and possibilities can exist in a collaboration between academics in the global North and grassroots activists in the global South?
What kinds of lessons grassroots actions in the South – like those portrayed in the film – can teach in academia and activism in the North?
About the documentary:
Complexos
Direction: JV Santos
2020
26 mins
The short documentary features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts to raise their voices and act for justice, dignity and respect. The film features testimonies of people who turned their passions for photography, journalism, poetry, graffiti and theater into actions to preserve local histories, to dismantle prejudices and to mobilize solidarity actions in the complex everyday lives in the underprivileged side of the Brazilian divide. Complexos is part of a collaborative process between the Finland-based Anti-Racism Media activism Alliance (ARMA Alliance) and the favela-based audiovisual collective Cafuné na Laje. This partnership – started during the research for Leonardo Custódio’s book Favela Media Activism – aims at exploring respectful and transformative forms of collaboration between academic institutions and grassroots activists.
Complexos was made possible by the financial support of the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation (Finland) and Kone Foundation (Finland).
For more information about Complexos, access www.armaalliance.com.
Please Note:
Please note that due to Covid-19 pandemic, our gathering will follow the social distancing standards and we will follow the official regulations and recommendations for gatherings. We are currently able to accomodate 15 people physically in the space. Unfortunately, a limitation on the number of people attending may mean that even for those sessions open for public, participants who sign-up will be prioritised.
Please sign up to the event by sending an e-mail to farnightschool@riseup.net by Friday, Novemeber 13, 2020. In the sign-up e-mail, indicate whether you are joining the event in Zoom, or whether you would rather join the live event at the Museum of Impossible Forms.
As the discussion and learning of this session builds upon the documentary, we recommend participants to join the session from the beginning, in order to not miss the documentary.
You are warmly welcome!
FAR Night School sessions in 2020 are realised in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms, as part of “In Practice”, a series focusing on practical feminist, anti-racist and class confrontational ways of being in different situations. All sessions are free. Sessions are independent, and attendance in other sessions is not required for participation.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’.
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Events at the Museum of Impossible Forms are completely free and accessible without prior booking.
Museum of Impossible Forms is accessible by lift with thresholds up to 4cm on the way. The toilet has no thresholds but is not spacious enough to meet accessibility standards. The nearest accessible toilet is located at Kontula metro station.
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