BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Flatness - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.flatness.eu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Flatness REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211109T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211109T190000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20211108T142854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T143808Z UID:2861-1636470000-1636484400@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame DESCRIPTION:A panel conversation in Cambridge on the occasion of Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame\, an exhibition from the New Hall Art Collection. \nOrganised to coincide with the exhibition Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame at the New Hall Art Collection\, Murray Edwards College\, Cambridge\, this panel focuses on the life\, work and legacy of Scottish-Ghanaian artist\, Maud Sulter (1960–2008). Featuring curators\, researchers and artists\, the discussion will explore the multi-disciplinary nature of Sulter’s practice which crossed different mediums but was rooted in questioning the representation of Black women in art and literature. The panel accompanies Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame\, which brings together Sulter’s iconic photographic series Zabat (1989). The series\, which the artist called a ‘diasporan family portrait’\, features photographs of contemporary Black female figures dressed as the Greek muses. The panel will include reflections on Sulter’s process of creating Zabat\, her interest in the history of photography and portraiture\, and her challenging of the role of model and muse. It will explore her network of female collaborators and life-long passion for supporting Black women\, as well as her self-identity as a Black lesbian woman. Taking an expanded view of her practice\, it will consider the importance of drama\, sound and performance in her work and exhibitions and the way in which she collaborated with practitioners in different creative fields. \nThis event will be live-streamed. Select a digital-only streaming ticket to receive the live-streaming link.\nPanel \nGilane Tawadros (Chair) Chief Executive of DACS\nLaura Castagnini Curator and Writer\nDionne Sparks Artist\, Teacher and Zabat sitter\nMarcia Michael Artist and PhD student\nEvan Ifekoya Artist and member of Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) \nSchedule \n15.00-16.00 Time to look around Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame \n16.00-17.30 Panel discussion \n18.00-19.00 Curator-led tour of Sutapa Biswas: Lumen at Kettle’s Yard and drinks reception\nA little more about our speakers \nGilane Tawadros met Maud Sulter in the early 1990s. One of her earliest pieces of writing was a review of Maud Sulter’s solo exhibition Hysteria which began its tour at Tate Gallery\, Liverpool in August 1991. \nLaura Castagnini has admired Sulter’s work since she was introduced to it many years ago by artists of her own generation (including Evan). As a curator she worked on Tate’s first acquisition of Sulter’s work\, the major series Les Bijoux (2002)\, which entered the collection last year. She is particularly interested in the potential of reading Sulter’s practice through a queer lens; she presented a paper on this topic at QBAxBBA: A joint event by the British Art Network’s Queer British Art Network and the Black British Art Network\, in December 2020. \nEvan Ifekoya finds great refuge in the breadth of practice that Maud Sulter has left behind. In particular\, the ‘saphie’\, a token of remembrance the viewer leaves with after viewing an artwork\, has been an inspiration for their own investigations into a collectively oriented art practice. \nMarcia Michael says of Sulter: As kin who returned to search for their heritage in these places of remembrance\, who also searched same landscapes of our foremothers for words and memories that keep on returning\, like Maud as one who returned to search\, I am reminded through her poetry that history repeats and words often do. Speaking Maud’s words and mine \nDionne Sparks met Maud Sulter while studying on the BA Fine Art at John Moores University in the late 1980s. Sulter was a great champion of black women artists and invited Dionne to show work in exhibitions such as Passion: Contemporary Black Women’s Creativity of the African Diaspora. They also worked together for a short time as part of the Feminists Arts News collective. Following her graduation Maud invited Dionne to model for Zabat\, in which she is represented as Erato\, the muse of lyric poetry. Dionne gained an insight in Maud’s practice as she also assisted her during the making of Zabat. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/maud-sulter-the-centre-of-the-frame/ LOCATION:online and in Cambridge\, online and in Cambridge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211026T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20211005T155012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211005T155012Z UID:2825-1635271200-1635292740@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:GEMBA MEETING DESCRIPTION:3rd GEMBA MEETING – 6:00pm\, 26 Oct 2021\, Zoom \nCalling all Black and Global Ethnic Majorities (GEM) people who are Board members or trustees in UK arts and culture organisations. More than ever\, creating solidarity among Black and Global Ethnic Majorities board members from across the UK is an urgent enterprise. We recognise that the experiences of GEM board members can be isolating\, and physically\, emotionally and intellectually challenging. \nFollowing our first workshop in March and our second meeting in May 2021\, we invite you to our third meeting which will be an informal space to share stories\, resources and to offer peer support. \nTo join us\, please sign up on eventbrite and a zoom link will be sent to you on the day. You will be asked to declare that you are a GEM person and are in\, have been in or are about to join a board. \nTIME: 6.00pm\, 26 October 2021 \nPLACE: Zoom (captioned\, hosted by Iniva) \nBOOK on Eventbrite (until 5pm 25 October 2021) \nJOIN our mailing list to stay in touch and receive updates: link in bio. \nCONTACT us at: gemba82.6@gmail.com (82.6% is the approximate size of the global ethnic majority currently) URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/gemba-meeting/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211010T124500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211010T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210928T155845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210928T155845Z UID:2811-1633869900-1633874400@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:GA(Y)MERS DESCRIPTION:There is a freedom that comes with gaming; an ability to exist in another realm without necessarily leaving the real world. For some the realm of a game exists as an alternate reality and for others it synthesises with the physical world. For queer and trans gamers\, it can function as a space to trial and error other bodies. It can be a space to transition. And with that comes various highs and lows. From moments of ecstasy to steep learning curves to some uh…‘reality checks.’ \nGA(Y)MERS showcases a series of shorts on gender and gaming\, including Jamie Jankowic’s ‘a woman on the internet’. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Jankowics and Flatness Curator Shama Khanna on the films and the importance of virtual queer spaces. \nCurated by Nat Lall. This short film programme will also be available to rent online from SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel 2 to 10 October. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £2\, £4\, £6\, or £8. To book\, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/gaymers/ LOCATION:CCA Glasgow\, CCA Glasgow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210912T174000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210912T185900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210907T151624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T151624Z UID:2799-1631468400-1631473140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Alia Syed In Focus DESCRIPTION:Points of Departure\nAlia Syed | 2014 | UK | 16’ | digital \n“The objects and places we cannot leave behind create the tapestry that is Points of Departure. Exploring themes of personal and collective memory through my relationship to the city of Glasgow\, a voice over describes a tablecloth I retrieved whilst clearing my elderly father’s house. The film attempts to unravel the threads of memory held within this mundane item and to find an image within the BBC archive that relates to my memories of growing up in Glasgow.” (Alia Syed) \nSnow\nAlia Syed | 2019 | UK | 42’ | digital \n“This tape is made from Hi8 video that my father shot.” Through visual analysis and hypnotic repetition\, Syed reappropriates footage shot by her father on a snowy day in the winter of 1995/96\, at a time when the filmmaker and her father were not speaking to one another. Snow blends different temporalities – of the original footage\, of the filmmaker’s first watching in 2017 and her subsequent viewings in 2019 – time and repetition shifting the filmmaker’s assumptions about the images and her late father\, who is both present and absent. \nPriya\nAlia Syed | 2012 | UK | 12’ | 16mm \nPriya is an extended aerial shot of a twirling Kathak dancer. The 16mm footage was buried in various organic materials\, deteriorating the initial image to shift cultural specificity and linear narratives of time and space. Rituals of burial expound successive memories of entombment; the skin of the film becomes the body of the dancer\, fracturing time into a darkly evocative\, psychological space. \nFollowed by a conversation between Alia Syed and Shama Khanna \nShama Khanna is an independent curator\, writer and educator from London. They are the founder of Flatness (http://flatness.eu)\, a long-running platform for artists’ moving image and network culture invested in curating through a decolonial feminist lens. The project has been described as a ‘digital site of resistance’ (Dr Sylvia Theuri)\, decentring narratives of the arts and normalcy from the margins of the online. As well as with the artists featured on the site\, Khanna has collaborated with numerous publications and organisations including: documenta 14\, Athens; NANG\, Seoul; Western Front\, Vancouver; Microscope\, NYC; Art Monthly; Afterall; LUX Scotland; Jerwood Arts; Herbert Gallery; Camden Arts Centre; The Women’s Art Library\, Goldsmiths; Feminist Review Journal; Chisenhale Gallery; Syllabus; and CCA\, Glasgow (all UK). They are currently producing a Flatness book commissioned by Axisweb & Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with not/ nowhere. Khanna is a lecturer in Curating at the Royal College of Art\, a Cultural Tenant at Studio Voltaire Studios\, and a proud Trustee of not/nowhere artist workers’ co-operative. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/alia-syed-in-focus/ LOCATION:Genesis cinema\, Genesis cinema END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210910T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210910T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210907T151942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T151942Z UID:2801-1631268000-1631318340@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Adam Farah – WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM YOU AND MYSELF (PEAK MOMENTATIONS / INSIDE MY VELVET ROPE MIX) DESCRIPTION:Adam Farah (b. 1991\, London\, UK) – sometimes known as free.yard – is an artist\, composer and sauce-maker. They are also a Capricorn Sun\, Leo Moon and Cancer Rising. Farah’s exhibition at Camden Art Centre is a presentation of visual and sensory moments from their journey through the chaotic depths of heartache\, trauma\, desires and spiritual voyaging – navigating these against the backdrop of the rapidly mutating city in which they grew up. \n“Recently a friend described what I do as ‘soul work’. Although the term is broad and manifests it’s meaning through different contexts\, it reminded me that there has been this underlying natural reaction within my creative endeavours\, to counteract the coldness and sterility that permeated the context of my art school experience in the 2010’s – at the height of the post-internet art moment; typified by reductive and uncritical forms of irony. A ‘coldness’ which may find its roots in the colonial legacies that permeate much of the Western art canon and it’s ever-present influence on aesthetic and critical practices. Therefore\, through the use of any medium\, be it moving image\, sculpture\, poppers\, peppers\, iPods\, walking\, cruising\, micro-dosing – my work may speak to seemingly disparate contexts – from my parents’ relationship to the impact of Mariah Carey on my thinking\, to the influence of specific technological devices on my adolescence. Ultimately though\, it’s a call out\, for human connection – through vulnerability\, reminiscing/reflecting\, spiritual criticality – something like that.” – Adam Farah URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/adam-farah-what-ive-learned-from-you-and-myself-peak-momentations-inside-my-velvet-rope-mix/ LOCATION:Camden Arts Centre\, Camden Arts Centre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210821T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210821T163000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210820T162719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210820T162719Z UID:2786-1629558000-1629563400@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Curating Online DESCRIPTION:Curating Online: Sustaining Technological Optimism or Approximating Alternatives? \nSaturday 21 August 2021\, 3 – 4.30pm \nConvened by Chisenhale’s Asymmetry Curatorial Writing Fellow\, Hang Li\, artists Raqs Media Collective\, curator and educator Shama Khanna\, and scholar\, performer\, and curator Donatella Della Ratta discuss the possibilities of online space to re-imagine group deliberation and notions of community. \nThe discussion calls into question technological optimism and solutionism permitting online curating by reclaiming the politicality of working in tandem with technologies. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/curating-online/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210710T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210710T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210705T135017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210705T135017Z UID:2772-1625925600-1625961540@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Ain Bailey: Version DESCRIPTION:12 July to 22 August\nExhibition Launch: 3–7pm\, 10 July \nSound artist and DJ Ain Bailey presents a series of new works for Version\, the first onsite exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre of 2021. \nThe exhibition launch on 10 July is open to all\, but due to Covid-19 the event is ticketed and booking is essential. Book a ticket on Eventbrite here\, including options for transport from London and Cambridge. \nTo book a slot to visit the exhibition from Monday 12 July\, visit our Eventbrite page here.\nAin Bailey: Version \nSound artist and DJ Ain Bailey presents a series of new works for Version\, the first onsite exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre of 2021. Installed in three parts across Wysing’s site\, the title pays tribute to the ‘version’ of a vocal track. Throughout the exhibition\, Bailey brings together sound and sculpture as means to expand on ideas and techniques of ‘sonic biography’\, a generative methodology of sound exploration that the artist has finessed over the years. Presented with the opportunity to occupy several spaces across the site\, Bailey has produced a series of works that reflect on the artist’s Jamaican heritage\, albeit from the position of someone who has not yet visited the island. \nA rendition of “Linstead Market”\, a traditional Jamaican folk song\, sung by artist and composer Elaine Mitchener plays intermittently throughout reception upon arriving\, a nod to songs held in memory and childhood. Moving through to the main gallery\, an installation\, including a sound composition capturing the cooking of a traditional Jamaican dish\, ackee and saltfish\, is accompanied by sculptures\, exploring the interconnected roles of sound and food in forming biography. For the third and final part of the exhibition\, Bailey has transformed Folke\nKobberling and Martin Kaltwasser’s\nAmphis sculpture in the Wysing grounds into an homage to dub\, the music genre which originated on the island. \nThe three sound pieces will be accompanied by a translation\, written by artist and writer Taylor Le Melle. Presented alongside the sound works as a textual ‘version’ of the compositions\, these act as an experiment in sound translation\, whereby sonic components are shared in alternative ways. This element is developed in partnership with exhibition curator Hannah Wallis\, as part of an exploration of how sound works can be made more accessible for D/deaf audiences. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/ain-bailey-version/ LOCATION:Wysing Arts Centre\, Wysing Arts Centre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210630T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210630T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210601T141743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T141743Z UID:2759-1625011200-1625097540@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Jamie Janković on The White Pube DESCRIPTION:Jamie Janković is presenting 2 short films on TWP homepage. The first\, ‘A Woman on the Internet (or\, The Eternal Scream)’ is a film about ‘growing up not realising I was trans and coping w/ my gender dysphoria through the most amazin female video game characters ever and living vicariously thru character creation systems.’ The second\, ‘Outsourcing (My Desires to Avatars)’ is ‘all abt longing for ur identity and using gaming as the medium for that.’ The page is also host to info about the artist and her collaborators\, plus links to fundraisers\, different support groups and charities. You have all of June to enjoy Jamie’s work 🌞 We’re really excited for you to watch it. Big fans 🙂 \n[ID: a screenshot ‘A Woman on the Internet’ film showing a still from Grand Theft Auto five online where Jamie’s player character\, who is a white girl wearing a black bikini with grey-blonde plaits\, is walking towards the camera and away from a guy in sweats holding a shotgun. He is stood watching her from the middle of the road. There’s another video overlaid in the corner of a face looking up at the girl with overcast skies in the background. In the 2nd image\, a screenshot from the same film\, there is a city viewed below with a text box in the middle saying ‘know that I am already eclipsed by my own physiology’] URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/jamie-jankovic-on-the-white-pube/ LOCATION:TWP homepage\, TWP homepage END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210611T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210611T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210601T141059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T141059Z UID:2757-1623369600-1623455940@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Images Film Festival on e-flux DESCRIPTION:This special feature of Images Festival 2021 presents films by Rossella Biscotti\, Grau\, Darol Olu Kae\, Nour Ouayda\, Suneil Sanzgiri\, and Rina B. Tsou\, screening on e-flux Video & Film for two weeks from Saturday\, May 29 through Friday\, June 11; as well as a conversation with festival programmers Alia Ayman\, Robert Lee\, and Yasmin Nurming-Por moderated by e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis. Watch them here. \nThe program is part of the series Festival Forum on e-flux Video & Film\, presenting collaborations with established and emerging moving-image festivals from around the world. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/images-film-festival-on-e-flux/ LOCATION:e-flux online\, e-flux online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210520T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210520T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210517T090541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T090541Z UID:2731-1621515600-1621555140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Ajamu: Archival Sensoria DESCRIPTION:Archival Sensoria is solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer\, artist-scholar\, archive curator and radical sex activist Ajamu\, curated by Languid Hands. \nTimed advance booking is required. We are releasing tickets on rolling basis. You can currently book up until 6 May 2021. Follow our social channels for announcements of when tickets will be released. \nTo keep visitors and staff safe each time slot is limited to 8 people to ensure social distancing. If you are booking on behalf of a household or bubble which is more than 8 people please contact info@cubittartists.org.uk so we can look into accommodating your visit. \nAbout the exhibition: \nDrawing on Ajamu’s personal archive\, collected over the artist’s 30 year career\, as well as previously unexhibitied contact sheets\, personal photos\, and community documentation\, Ajamu: Archival Sensoria is a celebration of Black queer life and a visual tribute to the generative creativity of LGBTQ+ and gender non-conforming lives. \nThroughout his practice and in an ongoing capacity\, Ajamu has chosen to document key figures in Black British queer life through portraiture to resist erasure and ensure they are visible in the archive. This newly commissioned body of work\, a series of 22 portraits\, taken with the theme of reverence in mind\, documents an intergenerational group of people who have contributed to a robust and vibrant Black queer linage in contemporary Britain; artists\, photographers\, DJ’s\, activists\, campaigners\, writers\, thinkers and more. \nAjamu: Archival Sensoria highlights Ajamu’s archive of photographs from events such as Black Pride\, as well as self portraits and images of fellow artists\, lovers and friends between the 80’s and 00’s. It also celebrates Ajamu’s incredible impact on the Black queer landscape of Britain as photographer\, documenter\, archivist and radical sex activist and brings attention to the artists’s process: in and among community\, Ajamu has documented our lives\, cared for them\, has done so with reverence and awe. The exhibition is both a study of black queer archival practice and an archive in and of itself. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/ajamu-archival-sensoria/ LOCATION:Cubitt\, Cubitt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210424T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210424T165900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210419T130849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T130849Z UID:2675-1619272800-1619283540@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:herb drawing session DESCRIPTION:For Earth Day\, Bonnington Cafe are running a herb drawing session on Saturday 24th of April.\nAt the herb planters at Harleyford Community Gardens by Bonnington Square followed by a herby take away snack at the cafe.\nThis workshop is free and all are welcome.\nMeet at 2.30 pm on the community table outside Bonnington Cafe.\nTo reserve a place please text Ela on 07806629166 or e mail\nBring your own drawing pad and pen\, pencils if you have. Some pencils and paper will be provided. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/herb-drawing-session/ LOCATION:Harleyford Community Gardens\, Harleyford Community Gardens END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210225T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210225T215900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210222T124626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T192805Z UID:2601-1614277800-1614290340@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:HYPER FUNCTIONAL\, ULTRA HEALTHY | NOT/NOWHERE PRESENTS DESCRIPTION:TUNE IN HERE \nFREE\nFrom Thu 25 Feb 2021\n18.30\nOnline Film Screening\nPart of Somerset House Studios\nArtist workers’ co-operative not/nowhere present a film screening in response to the themes of Hyper Functional\, Ultra Healthy. \nAs part of not/nowhere’s ongoing programme supporting new media practices\, the collective curates an evening of film. Through an open call\, not/nowhere invited members of “community n/n”\, their lab and workshop subscription programme\, to contribute short films that resonate with the notion of health and wellbeing. The applicants were encouraged to explore the personal\, communal and environmental implications of the provocation. \nSelected by not/nowhere producers\, the chosen short films will be broadcast live and then available to watch for the remaining duration of Hyper Functional\, Ultra Healthy. \nHyper Functional\, Ultra Healthy is a dynamic programme of new commissions\, films\, workshops\, and conversations considering both our individual health and collective wellbeing by exploring societal and ecological issues that affect both people and planet. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/hyper-functional-ultra-healthy-not-nowhere-presents/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210206T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210206T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210129T180024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210129T180024Z UID:2593-1612569600-1612655940@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:RETHINKING THE SOCIAL: DIGITAL CURATING DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the history of art on the web through the critical lens of Flatness. We will discuss key political questions of embodiment and disembodiment in relation to digital expression along with practical insights into curating and presenting work online. \nThis workshop will appeal to those with an active interest in achieving in social justice and alternative forms of encountering art online to the main social media channels and institutional platforms. \nUsing Flatness as a case study we will consider often overlooked histories of the web and the cultural specificities of the online for interacting with networked artworks as well as discussing related questions of audiences\, professionalism and solidarity. For example\, what kind of experiences can be created online compared to physical galleries? Who might feel addressed and what kind of work might manifest in this context? \nAs well as discourses around the digital\, Shama will share practical advice on developing website projects and building audiences for your work. \nLive since 2013\, Flatness is a long-running project curated by Shama Khanna offering artists and audiences a space for creativity away from structurally unjust institutions and market-led forces of the web. \nThis long-term research and commissioning platform for artists’ moving image and network culture decentres hegemonic narratives from the margins of the online. Flatness presents a porous context for artworks to be shared as part of a genuinely networked culture. \nFlatness values artistic experimentation and embodied\, durational experiences of art on the web. It is curated from the perspective of a queer Brown sick womxn with the aim of uplifting practices which similarly aim to dismantle intersectional oppression. \n“… Yet the curation of a durational space for art on the web over the course of several years now begins to feel significant\, harnessing this ephemeral and devalued space to fill it with extraordinary forms of being in the world. Supplementing a heritage of diasporic resourcefulness. Curating in the margins as a way of practicing accountability when the news constantly tests our nerves. \nThe idea of flatness has always felt grounding for me\, trusting the intuition in one’s body when mustering strength against divisive forces. To quote Moten and Harney\, who write about fugitivity as a mode of living together\, which ‘cannot be shared as a model but as an instance’\, spaces for desire and dreaming must be made and unmade every day to fortify against hate. My body overrode my efforts to work without love. I now dedicate my work to seizing the means of somatic recovery and encouraging a shamelessness around incapacity. To replacing a value system based on constant incentives to produce with an imperative to hold oneself\, and each other\, close.” \n– Excerpt from ‘State of the Union’ by Shama Khanna commissioned for the exhibition ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking’ curated by Sylvia Theuri\, available to read in full on flatness.eu. \nBURSARY PLACES FOR PRACTITIONERS OF COLOUR\nIn conjunction with Shama Khanna\, CAMP are offering two bursary places for practitioners of colour (POC) working as artists\, makers or creatives for this session. \nCriteria and how to apply\nThere are two bursary (free) places available for POC living in Devon and Cornwall; non-members of CAMP are welcome to apply. Email info@camp-plymouth.org with ‘Rethinking the Social Bursary’ in the subject line. Bursary places are available on a first come first served basis\, and if you have any questions\, please also email CAMP. \nACCESS INFORMATION\nThis workshop will take place on Zoom\, using video & audio\, and the workshop leader will ask you to participate throughout (either by voice or text chat). You are very welcome to bring a support worker with you to the session (just let us know by email after you book so we can share the Zoom link with them too). There is live on screen captioning. \nPlease let us know if you have any access needs by 22 January 2021\, via info@camp-plymouth.org\, so we can make arrangements URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/rethinking-the-social-digital-curating/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210130T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210130T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210111T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210111T112846Z UID:2554-1611964800-1612051140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Jamie Crewe: PEOPLE HAVE COME DESCRIPTION:PEOPLE HAVE COME is an artist talk by Jamie Crewe accompanying their solo exhibition Jamie Crewe: Ashley at LUX \nJamie Crewe presents a recorded artist’s talk in which they discuss a technique that recurs throughout their practice. They have named the technique PEOPLE HAVE COME\, and it describes courting and avoiding publicness. For certain kinds of people the desire to be seen\, recognised\, and understood is as powerful as the urge to hide\, be illegible\, and repel investigation. In reference to Ashley\, as well as to other works and experiences\, this talk traces eruptions of this ambivalent seam in Jamie’s life and practice. PEOPLE HAVE COME will be available online on the LUX website for the duration of the show. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/jamie-crewe-people-have-come/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210126T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20210119T135041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T135041Z UID:2579-1611687600-1611694800@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:What's The Beef With Bonnington? Film screening DESCRIPTION:‘What’s the Beef About Bonnington’ (2020\, 24mins) is a video essay about the long running cook’s collective The Bonnington Cafe in London which began as a squat in the 1980s – a community kitchen shared by local residents in the only house with a functioning stove. \nIt shows the different way of working as a collective – a constellation of people and objects in relation to its past – organically developing from its squatting days to today’s well known vegetarian and vegan cafe. \nThe film presents an intimate portrait of some of its cooks and the space itself. A record of an effort of an alternative work practice; an interesting economic and social model and possibly an example for other communities. \nThe online film screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Joseph Walsh\, interviewed by Curator and Writer Shama Khanna \nALL WELCOME \nScreening is free (a suggested donation of £5 for ticket) \nOr donate to our Crowdfunder which will give you invitation to the screening \nhttps://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/bonningtoncafefundraise URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/whats-the-beef-with-bonnington-film-screening/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201205T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201205T195900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20201203T165644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T165644Z UID:2504-1607191200-1607198340@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Exploring the Legacy of the UK Black Film Workshop Movement DESCRIPTION:Part of: Second Sight New Commissions: Celebrating the UK’s Black Film Workshop Movement \, HOME Artist Film Weekender 2020 \nThe Second Sight New Commissions screening will be followed by a panel discussion exploring the legacy of the UK Black Film Workshops and their influence on current filmmakers and collectives. The conversations will focus on collective and collaborative practices and dive deeper into the inspirations behind the Second Sight New Commissions programme. \nFor more on the UK Black Film Workshops and the Second Sight commissions read Carrying the flame of the Black Film Workshop by Grace Barber-Plentie. \nGuests include: \nThe discussion will be hosted by artist filmmaker and member of not/nowhere film co-operative Rhea Storr. Rhea’s work explores the representation of Black and mixed-race cultures\, the effect of place or space on cultural representation\, and masquerade as a site of protest and subversion.\nRehana Zaman is an artist based in London. She works predominantly with moving image to examine how social dynamics are produced and performed. Her work speaks to the entanglement of personal experience and social life\, where intimacy is framed against the hostility of state legislation\, surveillance and control.\nAyo Akingbade is an artist\, writer and director. Her work addresses notions of power\, urbanism and stance. Interested in the fluid boundaries between the self and the other\, she gathers local and cultural experiences in intimate and playful interpretations. \nEvent Details \nThe panel discussion will be hosted on zoom and the Second Sight New Commissions films are available to watch online as part of the HOME Artist Film Weekender from Thu 3 Dec – Sun 6 Dec. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/panel-discussion-exploring-the-legacy-of-the-uk-black-film-workshop-movement/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201202T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201202T203000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20201202T114848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T114848Z UID:2500-1606935600-1606941000@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Harsh Light: Amrita Dhallu & Priya Jay DESCRIPTION:Bloc Projects is excited to present the second instalment of Harsh Light webinars in December 2020. We will continue to examine how the art worlds have (not) coped in 2020\, provide space for solace and solidarity\, as well as propose some possible futures. \nHarsh Light is becoming more than we could hope for. It is a platform for art workers to strategise and decompress during these sick times. We hold the space with critical and embodied care\, inviting honest and at times vulnerable reflections from our peers\, friends\, and colleagues. Past speakers have already helped us think through anti-racist and climate justice work within institutions\, and debunk the monolithic preconceptions that are tethered to disability. \nThe second instalment continues to use the Arts Council England (ACE) “Let’s Create” strategy as a point of departure. Amidst health\, political and ecological crises\, how do we feel about this vision to “transform a country by culture”? How\, if at all\, will ACE’s four investment principles of inclusivity and relevance\, ambition and quality\, dynamism\, and environmental responsibility bring about the (art) worlds we want to have? URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/harsh-light-amrita-dhallu-priya-jay/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201127T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201127T205900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20201125T151139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T151139Z UID:2492-1606507200-1606510740@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:The Virosexuals: A Radio Play DESCRIPTION:Reading from scenes of The Virosexuals\, \nOrion J. Facey is joined by artists \nJesse Darling\, G\, Christopher Kirubi\, Natasha Lall\, Rehana Zaman and more. \nPlease join us for the pre-launch of Orion J. Facey’s fantastic\, and inadvertently timely\, first cyberpunk novel. \nThe Virosexuals is a science-fantasy you won’t regret plugging into… \nManchester\, UK. 2080. \n​ \n Amygdala’s dealer ran off on her. She’s out of estrogen\, and so when Alejandro offers her a bountiful supply of ‘mones if she works for him – doing what? – she’s not super sure… \n​ \nWhat she does know: Eschatos 2.0 is trying to kill her. There’s a rumour buzzing on The Chat. A deadly virus\, nicknamed ‘Petitmort’\, is going around\, manufactured by Eschatos 2.0\, and maybe only those who have the latest update of the Treehouse Link installed are susceptible. Could Alejandro’s mission for Amygdala be connected to this virus sweeping the underground kink and BDSM scene? \n​ \nAmygdala’s world consists of: her open relationship with Cel\, her philosophical musings and drugged-up rants with her best friend Skunk/Winny\, as well as her pursuit of all the completely curable (and thus fetishised) meatspace ‘zeases the club scene can offer. She tries to negotiate her body\, her sexuality and her desires and find the source of the ‘Petitmort’ threat…! \n​ \n​ \nOrion J. Facey is a writer of science-fantasy and a textile artist raised in Lancashire\, now based in Tokyo\, Japan. The Virosexuals is Orion J. Facey’s first full length novel. The Virosexuals explores: sex\, prosthetics\, disease-less-vacuums\, erotics\, non-monogamous relationship dynamics\, espionage\, android assassins\, hackers…! \n​ \nA newly commissioned artwork by artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is featured on the front cover of the PSS edition of the novel\, in its first printing in Europe. \n​ \nThe Virosexuals book and t-shirt are available for pre-sale. \n​ \nPublished by PSS\, an independent publisher of printed matter\, working with a variety of practitioners across art\, poetry and theory\, producing original publications as well as reprinted and unarchived text. They have worked with many important emerging\, as well as more established writers and artists\, such as Victoria Sin\, Rehana Zaman\, Daniella Valz Gen\, Catarina Barroso-Luque\, Imani Robinson and Rowan Powell. \n​ \nTaylor Le Melle writes\, organises and produces objects. Taylor is editor/publisher of The Virosexuals and is a founding member of PSS through which they have published and edited numerous artists’ books. With not/nowhere\, an artist workers’ cooperative\, they have organised over 50 workshops and events to provide contemporary artists with training and space to experiment with writing\, movement and film. \n​ \nSupported by Banner Repeater as part of the Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing (DAAP) with Wikimedia UK\, associated programme. The Digital Archive of Artists Publishing (DAAP) is an interactive\, user-driven\, searchable database of Artists’ Books and publications\, that acts as a hub to engage with others\, built by artists\, publishers\, and a community of producers in contemporary Artists’ Publishing\, developed via an ethically driven design process and open-data methodology. \n​ \nPSS \npssss@pssss.co \nInstagram: @pssss.co URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/the-virosexuals-a-radio-play/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201112T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20201111T141319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T142447Z UID:2465-1605207600-1605211200@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Donald Rodney – Autoicon: Discussing The Digital Body DESCRIPTION:Join curator Ian Sergeant and Prof Mike Phillips as they discuss and unpack Donald Rodney’s ‘Autoicon’ as part of the public programming for the exhibition 13 Ways of Looking curated by Dr Sylvia Theuri. \nDonald Gladstone Rodney (18 May 1961 – 4 March 1998) was a British artist and a leading figure in Britain’s BLK Art Group of the 1980s\, who became recognised as “one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation.” Rodney’s work appropriated images from the mass media\, art and popular culture to explore issues of racial identity and racism.⁣ \nThe exhibition #13WaysOfLooking features his work Autoicon\, a dynamic internet work and CD-ROM that simulates both the physical presence and elements of the creative personality of the artist\, who died from sickle-cell anaemia\, on loan from the artists’ estate. And the 1982 work How the West Was Won\, which was painted when Rodney was only 21 and a student at Nottingham Trent University. It dates to a time when he was part of the BLK Art Group\, group producing work that engaged directly with the socio-political issues of the time.⁣ URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/donald-rodney-autoicon-discussing-the-digital-body/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201002T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201002T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20201029T175756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201029T175756Z UID:2431-1601661600-1601683140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Thirteen Ways of Looking DESCRIPTION:The title of this exhibition is inspired by Wallace Stevens’ poem ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ (1917). The thirteen verses of the poem each describe the presence and movement of a blackbird in a different way – creating multiple perspectives and viewpoints of the bird. The blackbird in the poem symbolises the importance of flexibility and fluidity in order to create space for multiple forms of experience\, knowledge and understanding. \nThis exhibition borrows from Stevens’ approach\, bringing together existing and newly commissioned artworks by thirteen artists and curators. Their working practices bring forward international\, multicultural\, multi-faith and feminist perspectives which shift very much like those of the blackbird in the poem. \nThirteen Ways of Looking explores different strategies of resistance that overlap and intersect in the physical spaces of the gallery and digitally online. They challenge where art belongs\, where it’s experienced and who is being addressed. \nThe participating artists and curators are: Hira Butt\, Eddie Chambers\, Sonya Dyer\, Andreana Fatta\, Hyphen-Labs\, Navi Kaur\, Shama Khanna\, Roshini Kempadoo\, Shiyi Li\, Farwa Moledina\, Keith Piper\, Donald Rodney and Matías Serra Delmar. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/thirteen-ways-of-looking/ LOCATION:Herbert Gallery and Flatness.eu\, Herbert Gallery and Flatness.eu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200817T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200823T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200818T202811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200818T202921Z UID:2289-1597622400-1598227140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Glasgow Short Film Festival\, DESCRIPTION:Glasgow Short Film Festival\, the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland\, champions new film talent by providing an annual showcase and meeting point for new and established Scottish and international filmmakers\, industry delegates and the local audience. Our programme celebrates diverse forms of cinematic expression\, whether fiction\, documentary\, animation or artists’ moving image\, and foregrounds disruptive\, ground-breaking work that transgresses the boundaries of conventional narrative film. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/glasgow/ LOCATION:https://glasgowshort.org/\, https://glasgowshort.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200730T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200730T205900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200723T155028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T155028Z UID:2201-1596135600-1596142740@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:screening of ZZZ by Lucy Clout DESCRIPTION:ZZZ (2020) is described by the artist as a ‘nocturnal work’. Within the video we hear a tired voice-over reading across her incomplete notes during the night. The voice-over moves back and forth between lucid and opaque speech\, blending description\, anecdote and fact into a looping disorientated monologue. \nLanguage is just one material within the piece\, no more significant than the ceramics or jewellery within the video: the spoken word is not proposed as any more articulate than those objects either. Language is under stress in ZZZ. The title sets up the tone of the video but is also used as a filler phrase by the voice-over to highlight places in her notes or memory that she needs to go back to. \nLucy Clout will be in discussion with Benjamin Cook\, LUX Director and audience members on zoom after the screening. \nLucy Clout is a London based artist working primarily in video. Her practice examines the embodied experience of language\, in particular minor-speech (disposable or insignificant)\, to think about sickness and pleasure. Lucy understands her works as kinds of ‘home movie’ — they are not essays or arguments but collages of tone\, building upon deep histories of diaristic/subjective feminist film making. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/screening-of-zzz-by-lucy-clout/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200720T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200720T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200716T185703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200716T185703Z UID:2185-1595250000-1595253600@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:The Global Staffroom with Flatness DESCRIPTION:The Global Staffroom is a live podcast hosted by Manual Labours (Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope) involving conversations and interviews with people about what it feels like to care\, be cared for\, not be able to care at work. What does ‘staff room’ mean to you? We are hoping the Global Staff Room will\, over time\, be a space to connect people from different workforces and geographies and that members can air their experiences and concerns with each other. We want to explore issues such as the architecture of home-work\, racialised experiences of lockdown\, emotional labour of care and health workers\, social reproduction and remote working. \n——— \nThe Global Staffroom’s discussion on questions of social reproduction and care at work within this current moment of COVID 19 are questions intersected with structural injustice. Racism is a Public Health Crisis. \nThe pandemic only serves to further expose the already and ongoing inequality\, exploitation and violence that upholds capitalism and the reproduction of hostile\, oppressive workplaces and working conditions. Learning from our discussions with guests here\, we hope to learn how we are implicated in re-enforcing these structures and importantly find ways to work against and collectively dismantle them. \nIn our last issue of Manual Labours we drew on the words of Audre Lorde: “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” \nThe Global Staffroom builds on Manual Labours Manual Building as Body in which the social reproduction of the institution was the site of most concern and struggle in which care and maintenance of the worker and between workers was overlooked and unsupported. Conversations around social reproduction at work were expanded upon within a series of workshops with workers without a staffroom or workplace. Questions of our extended reproductive systems led us to think about how can we connect up with a Global Staffroom of workers upon which our work depends on. \nThe Global Staffroom launches on Monday 20 April\, 12noon BST via Twitch.tv and will broadcast every Monday at 12 noon during the Summer term 2020. \nJoin us in the staffroom by clicking on the above link and listening in\, commenting in the chatroom or emailing us on manual.labours@gmail.com URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/the-global-staffroom-with-flatness/ LOCATION:www.twitch.tv/theglobalstaffroom\, www.twitch.tv/theglobalstaffroom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200716T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200723T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200716T185943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200716T185943Z UID:2187-1594857600-1595548740@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Picturing a Pandemic Part 5 DESCRIPTION:Online exhibition: Picturing a Pandemic\nPart 5: Future Nation\, Something Said\, Confirmation of my Sins\, Contoured Thoughts\n9 – 23 July \nPicturing A Pandemic looks to the artist’s moving image and performance practices of the 1990s to the present\, to consider how queer\, two-spirit and non-binary BIPOC (black\, indigenous\, people of colour) video practices continue to stage modes of decolonial resistance as interstices between crisis and liberation. This situates debates following the COVID-19 global pandemic and eco-activist and Black Lives Matter uprisings in the context of the linked colonial histories of the UK and Canada.

In recent decades\, unfolding economic\, political and ecological crises have given shape to geopolitical alignments extending the reach of global neoliberal capitalism. Meanwhile\, resurgent populist nationalism that feeds white supremacy and promotes police and state violence towards LGBTQIA people\, people of colour and indigenous peoples perpetuates coloniality and cultural amnesias which at the same time propels the rampant exploitation of oppressed people and the planet.

Combining speculative fictions\, archival\, auto-ethnographic\, ritual and meditative practices\, the works of Jay Bernard\, Evan Ifekoya\, Zachery Longboy and Kent Monkman demonstrate that in light of an increasing awareness of the continuities of colonialism\, the violence of neoliberal capitalism and of climate denial\, the normalisation of racist politics and the prevalence of racist\, homophobic and transphobic institutions\, government policies and public discourses\, these artists offer ways to bear witness\, build resistance and re-forge old and new activisms. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/picturing-a-pandemic-part-5/ LOCATION:https://lux.org.uk/online-exhibition/picturing-a-pandemic-part-5\, https://lux.org.uk/online-exhibition/picturing-a-pandemic-part-5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200715T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200719T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200715T174011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T174202Z UID:2178-1594771200-1595203140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Krishna Istha: Inferior Scroll DESCRIPTION:Krishna Istha\nInferior Scroll\nInferior Scroll is a re-enactment of Carolee Schneemann’s seminal 1975 work Interior Scroll. Between then and now\, multiple re-enactments of the work have been staged by cis women artists. Krishna Istha re-enactment explores the positioning of trans artists in feminist performance art\, creating dialogue around bodily autonomy and trans fetishisation. The artist’s nude body depicts performativity\, reinforcing intersectional identity and normalising the complexities of trans bodies. The piece is titled Inferior Scroll as a nod to the way trans bodies are treated as disposable and inferior to cis bodies within the arts industry and wider society. Video here: https://vimeo.com/437194092 \nThis video is password protected\, please email inferiorscroll@gmail.com for the password. \nKrishna Istha is a London based live artist and performance maker. Their work looks at trans/formations (physical\, political & collaborative)\, gender politics and queer culture using subversive text and humour. Their practice is often collaborative and trans disciplinary\, spanning across theatre\, opera\, comedy and performance art. \nCurrently\, they are co-writing a new live show with Travis Alabanza and Emma Frankland commissioned by Roundhouse (London) set to be performed by a company of young trans performers in 2021. They are also one of the Arts Admin Bursary artists (2020-2021) and a board member of the Raze Collective. \nwww.krishnaistha.com \nInferior Scroll was invited by LADA for Once More With Feeling\, an online programme of four instruction pieces and performance re-enactments. Further works will be presented in the following weeks of LADA’s Summer Programme. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/krishna-istha-inferior-scroll/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200709T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200709T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200715T174455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T174455Z UID:2181-1594296000-1594339140@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:ART CRITICISM AND THE PANDEMIC: RESETTING THE GLOBAL DESCRIPTION:ART CRITICISM AND THE PANDEMIC: RESETTING THE GLOBAL\nIn collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre \nKhairani Barokka\nDavid Dibosa\nJuliet Jacques\nBarbara Rodriguez Munoz\nRehana Zaman \nSeveral months into a devastating pandemic\, the globalised art world has been grounded and changed. Exhibition models and curatorial pursuits including the Blockbuster\, the Biennale and the art fair\, are left in limbo. Are the restricted conditions of movement for many in the western world fostering alternative forms of practice\, display and exchange? This event aims to glimpse possibilities for renewal beyond existing globalised systems. Speakers will address a wide-ranging set of issues and raise questions of ecological imperative\, use of technology and the new status of art\, for consideration and discussion. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/art-criticism-and-the-pandemic-resetting-the-global/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200626T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200626T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200604T172135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200625T152040Z UID:2072-1593180000-1593190800@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Agile Structures DESCRIPTION:Networking artists\, curators & art-writers in Cornwall & Devon to re-vision practice and behaviour in the shadow of the pandemic. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event \n\n\nNetworking artists\, curators and art-writers in Cornwall & Devon to re-vision practice and behaviour in the shadow of the Corona Virus pandemic and the light of an inclusive and environmentally low-impact future. \nConfirmed contributors: \n\nDave Beech\nBridgette Ashton\nCinzia Mutigli & Holly Davey\nJames Fergusson\nSimon Bayliss with Ilker Cinarel & Senara Wilson Hodges\nShama Khanna\nCeri Hand\n\nRecognising that Covid-19 is affecting everything we once took for granted\, artists Sara Bowler and Sovay Berriman have joined with Cultivator Cornwall and CAMP to create an opportunity to share\, discuss and make at a social distance\, using some of the online platforms that have become an everyday norm. Agile Structures celebrates the ability of the arts to flex\, and respond to a new situation. Speakers will look at the potentials and possibilities for maintaining and enriching our practices\, acknowledging that here is a moment to shift our behaviours and expectations for a better\, fairer\, future. \n\nCombining a mix of talks\, workshops\, panel discussions\, an online supper club\, video DJing and artists’ Speed Shows.\nSpread over 4 days to minimise screen fatigue and allow time for people to attend as their personal responsibilities allow.\nEach session lasting 1.5 to 2 hours.\nThe majority of sessions will be recorded and made available on a dedicated platform for a limited time for participants to catch up or re-visit as they choose. They will be available to view via the dedicated website until 9am Monday 29 June.\n\nSpeed Shows \nA key part of Agile Structures is the opportunity for participating artists to present their work. During lockdown\, artists have had limited opportunities to show\, share\, discuss what they’ve been up to in recent months. These Speed Shows are an attempt to address that. We’re offering eighteen 6 minute slots between Thursday and Saturday from 12-1.30pm. Six artists will present in each session followed by a combined\, facilitated Q&A. \nYou will need to book additionally through Eventbrite for these sessions\, which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. We will be in touch when you have booked your slot. \nWe are asking artists to prepare their presentations in advance using a pre recorded PowerPoint/Keynote presentation which will need to be sent to us by 12noon on Wednesday 24th June. \nAccessibility \nAgile Structures will be delivered using Zoom Pro. A Zoom account is not required if you are joining Zoom Meetings as a participant. If someone invites you to their meeting\, you can join as a participant without creating an account. \nAs this is an online event we are making an assumption that participants will be joining from their own residences and will have the tools and facilities in place that they require to attend. If there is anything additionally that you require which Agile Structures can provide please do make us aware when you register. \nIf you require any information at this stage please email agilestructures@gmail.com URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/flatness-south-west-symposium/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200619T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200621T235900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200615T134659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200615T134659Z UID:2140-1592593200-1592783940@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:SlipStream DESCRIPTION:// artists streaming in solidarity with refugee week // \nAs Covid-19 grips the world\, those who are already precarious are finding their means to subsist is stretched to the limit. Refugees and asylum-seekers are among the most vulnerable to a crisis which disproportionately affects the poor and precarious. Issues such as substandard housing and limited access to healthcare and finance are exacerbating factors in a pandemic which reproduces societal inequalities. The struggles of refugees intersect those coming to prominence once again in the #BlackLivesMatter campaign: as the same systems of imperialism that produce these violences build securitised borders\, split up families through deportations\, and allow people to die whilst fleeing to safety. \nIn solidarity\, SlipStream stands with Refugee Solidarity South East\, a grassroots organisation formed recently in response to the pandemic. Based in South East London\, and run entirely by volunteers\, it operates as a model of providing support on an inter-local level\, supporting refugees in the area with food and supplies to help weather the Covid-19 crisis\, and aiding foreign organisations in areas less adjacent to sources of funding. So far they have supported organisations including Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers\, Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network and Donate4Refugees. \nPresenting a weekend of livestreams on Twitch.tv showcasing a selection of artists based in South East London and internationally\, SlipStream will be raising money which will be donated in full to RSSE. Working across media formats including video\, performance\, radio\, literary and sound art\, the multiplicity of voices will be broadcasted in solidarity with the cause. The work diverges and then unexpectedly crosses\, on terrains of the political\, liminal and subconscious\, and the critique of the status quo. As the current conditions restricting our ability to assemble in physical space impose upon the art world’s ability to function\, the need for reaching audiences in alternative forms is ongoing. \nA donation page will be live for the duration of the broadcasts\, and viewers are kindly requested to donate according to their capacity. \nParticipating artists: \nAbbas Zahedi\nalex cruse\nAlexandra Neuman\nAsya Volodina\nBeverley Gadsden\nCarl Gent\nDaniel V. Keller\nElaine Tam\nHarriet Foyster\nKitty McKay\nKyle Kruse\nLouis Mason\nLouise Ashcroft\nMaria Mahfooz\nMichelle Williams Gamaker\nMost Dismal Swamp\nNatasha Eves\nNew Noveta\nRastko Novakovic\nRoland Carline\nRoss Hammond\nSabrina Mumtaz Hasan\nSara Drake & Nina Sarnelle\nSara Gulamali\nSara Rodrigues\nSerra Tansel\nSofia Albina Novikoff Unger\nWilliam Kherbek\nYen Chun Lin\nYoojin Lee & Giuseppe Termine \nJune 19 & June 20 & June 21 @ 7 pm\nlink to event: https://www.twitch.tv/slipstreamtv \nRSSE links:\nhttps://www.instagram.com/refugeesolidarityse/?hl=en\nhttps://www.facebook.com/RefugeeSolidaritySE/ \nCurated by Bianca Hlywa and James Hendrix Elsey\, who thank you for your interest and support. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/slipstream/ LOCATION:Online\, Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200612T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200612T213000 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200604T164405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200604T171859Z UID:2067-1591988400-1591997400@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:DocHouse Watch Party: Recorder - The Marion Stokes Project + Online Q+A DESCRIPTION:Join us for our online preview and director Q&A about Marion Stokes\, an African American activist who archived 70\,000 hours of VHS tapes.\nAbout this Event\nFor thirty years\, Marion Stokes secretly video-taped everything on TV\, twenty-four hours a day. Starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979\, she witnessed the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle\, which burgeoned across the channels and transformed the way we receive – and dispose of – news. \nA rising star of the Communist Party in Philadelphia\, Marion Stokes was a civil-rights era radical and public intellectual. Aware of how easily history could be lost or re-written\, she felt compelled to record everything; to rescue fact from the compost heap of yesterday’s news. \nMatt Wolf’s curious and compelling profile of the activist-hoarder crackles with footage from the 70\,000 VHS tapes recovered after her death. Conjuring up the last 30 years of TV – from world news to talk shows\, from the momentous to the mundane – they offer more than just trivia and nostalgia: these phantom images point to the changing way that we consume the world around us. \nAs Marion Stokes aged\, she became wealthier\, more reclusive and more obsessed with this private project. But far from relegating her to the realms of paranoia\, Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project opens up her archive\, showing how the media shapes and reflects our lives\, and how fine the line is between eccentric and visionary. \nDirector Matt Wolf will join us for a Q&A after this live-stream screening. \nWe’ll email you links to attend closer to the time of the event. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/dochouse-watch-party-recorder-the-marion-stokes-project-online-qa/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200605T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200605T205900 DTSTAMP:20260614T192447 CREATED:20200603T134639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200603T140513Z UID:1982-1591383600-1591390740@www.flatness.eu SUMMARY:Break into the Forbidden DESCRIPTION:“Break into the forbidden.” —Aimé Césaire \nJoin poets from the UK and North America to mourn\, witness\, dream\, nourish and celebrate black life. \n100% of proceeds from this online fundraiser will be donated to black liberation organisations and bail funds in support of justice and resistance movements in the US. \nWith Raymond Antrobus\, Jay Bernard\, Victoria Adukwei Bulley\, James Goodwin\, Bhanu Kapil\, Canisia Lubrin\, Karen McCarthy Woolf\, Fred Moten\, M. NourbeSe Philip\, Nisha Ramayya and more tba. \nImage 1 & 2: Arthur Jafa\, Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death (stills) \nPlease note: You must provide your email address (not your phone number) to receive the Zoom link BY EMAIL shortly ahead of the event. \nWe will stop selling tickets one hour before the event starts. \nWe have a number of free spaces thanks to the generosity of some donors. If you or anyone you know would like to attend and show your support but cannot afford the ticket price\, please get in touch: hello@ignota.org. \nIf you are a teacher and would like to bring your students\, please get in touch to discuss a discounted ticket price. \nRaymond Antrobus was born in Hackney\, London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem\, Complete Works III and Jerwood Compton Poetry. He is one of the world’s first recipients of an MA in Spoken Word Education from Goldsmiths\, University of London. Raymond is a founding member of Chill Pill and the Keats House Poets Forum. He has had multiple residencies in deaf and hearing schools around London\, as well as Pupil Referral Units. In 2018 he was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Award by the Poetry Society (judged by Ocean Vuong). Raymond currently lives in London and spends most his time working nationally and internationally as a freelance poet and teacher. \nJay Bernard is a writer from London. Their work is interdisciplinary\, critical\, queer and rooted in the archive. They won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for Surge: Side A\, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire in 1981. Jay’s short film Something Said has screened in the UK and internationally\, including Aesthetica and Leeds International Film Festival (where it won best experimental and best queer short respectively)\, Sheffield DocFest and CinemAfrica. Jay is a programmer at BFI Flare\, an archivist at Mayday Rooms and resident artist at Raven Row. \nVictoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet\, writer and filmmaker. Winner of a 2018 Eric Gregory Award for promising British poets under 30\, she has held residencies in the USA\, Brazil\, and the V&A Museum in London. Her debut pamphlet is Girl B\, and she is the director of MOTHER TONGUES\, a poetry\, translation and film project exploring the indigenous language heritages of black and brown poets. Victoria is a doctoral candidate at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, the recipient of a 2019 Technē scholarship for practice-based research in Creative Writing. \nJames Goodwin is a poet undertaking a PhD in English and Humanities at Birkbeck\, University of London with a thesis on the blacksociopoetics of marronage\, breath\, sacrality and emanation. His pamphlet\, aspects caught in the headspace we’re in: composition for friends\, is forthcoming with Face Press. \nBhanu Kapil is a British-Indian artist and poet. She is the author of five full length works of poetry/prose\, including How to Wash a Heart (2020)\, Ban en Banlieue (2015) and Schizophrene (2012). She is a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 and is currently the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her blog can be found at https://thesparklyblogofbhanukapil.blogspot.com. \nCanisia Lubrin is a writer\, editor\, and teacher. Her work is published widely and has been frequently anthologized\, including translations into Italian and Spanish. Lubrin’s debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis\, was named a CBC Best Poetry Book\, longlisted for the Gerald Lambert Award\, the Pat Lowther Award\, and a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. She was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award for her fiction contribution to The Unpublished City: Vol 1 and 2019 Writer in Residence at Queen’s University. Lubrin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. \nBorn in London to English and Jamaican parents Karen McCarthy Woolf writes poetry\, criticism and drama. Her collection An Aviary of Small Birds was described as an ‘extraordinarily moving and technically flawless’ (The Poetry Review)\, ‘pitch perfect debut’ (Guardian) and was shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis and Fenton Aldeburgh prizes. She makes radio features and drama for BBC radios 3 and 4\, and has presented her work across the world. \nFred Moten was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada in 1962 and raised there and in Kingsland\, Arkansas. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\, Hughson’s Tavern\, B. Jenkins\, The Feel Trio\, The Little Edges\, The Service Porch\, and consent not to be a single being (published as trilogy\, Stolen Life; Black and Blur; The Universal Machine). He is co-author\, with Stefano Harney\, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study\, and A Poetics of the Undercommons\, and with Wu Tsang\, of Who Touched Me?. Moten lives in New York with his partner\, Laura Harris\, and their children\, Lorenzo and Julian. He teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. \nBorn in Tobago\, M. NourbeSe Philip is an unembedded poet\, essayist\, novelist\, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of Toronto where she practised law for seven years before becoming a poet and writer. Among her published works are the seminal She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks and the speculative prose poem Looking for Livingston: An Odyssey of Silence. Her book-length poem\, Zong!\, is a conceptually innovative\, genre-breaking epic\, which explodes the legal archive as it relates to slavery. Her most recent work is Bla_K. Her fellowships include Guggenheim\, McDowell\, and Rockefeller (Bellagio). M. NourbeSe Philip is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. \nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow\, and is now based in London. She is a poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. Her pamphlets include Notes on Sanskrit\, Correspondences\, and In Me the Juncture\, as well as Threads\, co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil. States of the Body Produced by Love is her first full-length book. URL:https://www.flatness.eu/event/break-into-the-forbidden/ LOCATION:online\, online END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR