by Dika Ofoma and Innocent Ekejiuba

Filmmaker Dika Ofoma and curator Innocent Ekejiuba discuss Ofoma’s film A Quiet Monday, which faces living in Nigeria and what happens when governments create a vacuum that allows violence to fester.

by Alper Turan on Kübra Uzun

Curator Alper Turan writes on artist/performer Kübra Uzun, a.k.a. Q-BRA, trans muse for both local and international artists, who redefines the traditional concept of a gendered muse.

Gülsün Karamustafa and Alex Klein

Artist Gülsün Karamustafa and curator Alex Klein delve into the ways that geopolitical landscapes, political engagement, and artistic tools for resistance shaped some of the most formative years of Karamustafa's life.

Beyond Survival is a screening program of short films and videos addressing tyrannical planetary conditions by Dika Ofoma, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Chitra Ganesh, Amar Kanwar, Ana María Millán, Michael Rakowitz, and Rattana Vandy.

Friday, February 16, 18:00, Pixxel Factory, 2/5 Idowu, Ajao Estate, Anthony Village, Lagos.

Mayra Santos-Febres

Poet and writer Mayra Santos Febres contextualizes the survival of Afro-Borinquen artmaking within legacies of colonialism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, highlighting liberatory methodologies and refusals to be unseen. In 2022 Protodispatch published another exploration of cultural survivance in Puerto Rico titled Relearning the Ancient: Paths to the Indigenous land rights in Boriquén by Jorge González and Angela Brown.

Protodispatch, Basel Abbas ile Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Chitra Ganesh, Amar Kanwar, Ana María Millán, Michael Rakowitz ve Rattana Vandy’nin acımasız gezegen koşullarını ele alan kısa film ve videolarından oluşan, İstanbul’da SALT Açık Sinema ev sahipliğinde, Protocinema tarafından gerçekleştirilen “Hayatta Kalmanın Ötesinde” gösterim programını sunar.

Perşembe, 14 Aralık 2023
19:00
SALT Açık Sinema, Istanbul

Himali Singh Soin

In a time of profound loss, artist Himali Singh Soin offers a ballad and manifesto on spaces of occluded clarity, and the relationships between human and non-human survival therein. She suggests this inbetween as a zone of safety, opacity, and potential for permeable binaries and selves.