[resource-net] 26.01/06.02.2022::The Performativity of Nonviolence in Translation::by Zoya Sardashti

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"The Performativity of Nonviolence in Translation"

by artist researcher* Zoya Sardashti* of Home Soil Projects
<https://homesoil.org/the-performativity-of-nonviolence-in-translation/> in
collaboration with Liebig12 <http://www.liebig12.net/about/>

This project activates theories in the book The Force of Nonviolence: An
Ethico-Political Bind by* Judith Butler *within multilingual  and nonverbal
contexts.


This format of collective practice will be shared through Zoom as a series
of artistic practice-as-research sessions Jan. 26 & 27 from 19.00-21.00.


On Jan. 30 a virtual performance will take place on Zoom from 16.00 -
18.00.


A sound installation documenting the process and performance will be
exhibited at Liebig12 in Friedrichshain from January 31 - February 6 from
16.00-20.00.


To RSVP for the virtual practice-as-research sessions and/or performance
please email Zoya at homesoilprojects at gmail.com or simply access
https://zoom.us/j/4689923045 to attend.


Jan. 26 & 27

Virtual Practice-as-Research Sessions

https://zoom.us/j/4689923045

Duration 19.00-21.00

The practice-as-research sessions are an opportunity to activate theories
of nonviolence through experiential, performance-based activities. As a
collective we will read excerpts of the book The Force of Nonviolence by
Judith Butler out loud, and experiment with ways to access theory
physically and emotionally. We will write our personal experience in
relation to theoretical text. This includes performative writing (similar
to writing for performance, theatre or poetry), and performance (somatic
and movement) practices. Finally, we will share how we imagine nonviolence
as a practice to emerge in specific contexts. The strength of the project
is contingent on consistent participation. You are strongly encouraged
to attend
all sessions since the purpose is to collaborate as a collective.


Jan. 30

Virtual performance with participants from practice-as-research sessions
and research collective.

https://zoom.us/j/4689923045

Duration 16.00-18.00

Video cameras are turned off. Names are changed to the first letter of your
chosen name. A profile picture is replaced with a color. A group of voices
assemble online. Similar to a Greek chorus, people use the porosity of
words to cascade into virtual space. An audience is invited to feel a force
with force that generates an imagined ethical relation that has yet to be
rendered visible.


Jan. 31 - Feb. 6

Exhibition at Liebig12_ (current Covid19_regulation apply)
<https://www.berlin.de/corona/en/measures/>

Duration 16.00-20.00

Documentation of outcomes during the virtual research sessions and
performance will be exhibited as a sound installation. Guests are welcome
to relax and listen to a collective narration of how nonviolent practice
was enacted by people in multiple languages across eight time zones. Zoya,
the initiator of the project, will be present to discuss the work and share
saffron spirits.


Extended Project Description

Witnessing violence on social media creates a heightened sense of urgency
that can evoke a feeling of disjuncture in physical reality. In June 2020,
Zoya Sardashti formed a reading group that evolved into a research
collective as a response to ongoing police brutality in the U.S. because
forms of activism, such as the framing of Black Lives Matter protests, were
labeled as violent by opposition groups. The debate over the legitimacy of
how public protests are enacted by certain media groups threatens freedom
of expression and other modes of solidarity. So the research collective,
composed of eight people in five different time zones, took up the task of
creating new approaches to enacting nonviolent assembly by translating
theories in The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith
Butler within multilingual and nonverbal contexts. We created a format of
inclusive practice as a mode of artistic research that resignifies Butler’s
theory through the lens of performance-making processes and cultural
mediation. We approach nonviolence as a technique of using both singular
and collective methodologies to make links across multiple subjective
experiences through assembly formation.
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