Marwa Arsanios - Who is Afraid of Ideology? A talk taking part of the NOSYMMETRIES programme
To kick off the programme, artist, filmmaker and researcher Marwa Arsanios (Beirut-Berlin) has been invited to lead a workshop and public talk, sharing her line of artistic research.
For the public talk Marwa Arsanios will speak about the different stages of her long term project Who is Afraid of Ideology? focusing on processes and methodologies of collective work. She will go through the different strategies of land communalisation that she has worked with and encountered throughout the way and the role and place of film within those processes.
She reconsiders mid-20th century politics from a contemporary perspective. Her work reflects upon structural and infrastructural issues from the perspectives of new and historical materialisms alongside various feminist movements fighting for their land. Her work introduces us to the analysis of questions of property, law, economy, and ecology from their specific territorialities.
Arsanios received an MFA from the University of the Arts London (2007) and was a research fellow at the Department of Fine Arts, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011-2012). She has been a researcher at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany (2014) and at Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010), and is co-founder of the 98weeks Research Project. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst, Vienna.
Workshop (for participants of the NOSYMMETRIES’ working group)
This workshop will depart from a set of literary and filmic material that is thinking through the possibility of a different relationship to land than the one of private property. Where do we find the commons today? In which practices of assembling, collective land tenure etc… We will discuss excerpts of texts and watch certain film scenes that will help us think through questions of communalisation, collectivisation, non-property and more. The aim will be to gather a small tool box of communalisation.
