Writing Part 1: Practices of Anti-Racism and Unconscious Racism

This seminar series is part of “A Season of Black Study” and curated by the research project FutureBrownSpace, an initiative of Afro-Diasporic practitioners, based in Black Studies, dedicated to creating nourishing spaces for people of the global majority to develop their projects (of art, of being, of activism or community) and for anyone who wishes to appreciate, and join in its significance for a more coalitional, less neo-colonial future; whether your access to Black Study is through the brown, the decolonial, the neurodivergent, whether you find black affinities with your class struggle, gender battles or variously abled superpowers, if you can move with it, tremble with it, let it break you out of abstraction and shake some non-censored sense into you, then you can be with us in Black Study.

This Season brings together artists, researchers and organizers from Sweden, performance art and theatre from South Africa, and scholars from the U.S, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of black study.

Participants are encouraged to write through or alongside their art-making/pedagogic practices/research projects. These are not lectures, nor discussion groups on anti-racism, but deep dives into our, often, fraught intimacies with race and what they can provoke. We go on the dive alone, but knowing we are together in the work.

Practices looks at the manifold of practices that go to make up a methodology. Here we will take our artistic or pedagogic practice as a starting point: the practice of editing, choreography, movement, recording for example – in order to explore the latent practices that support them and how those, often, unconscious processes relate to the facts and enactments of colonial thinking.

Writing Part 1: Practices of Anti-Racism and Unconscious Racism

Resources:  

The Library

Feedback from our two-day workshop:

“(this)… was a vivid experience for me; the mix of seriousness and playfulness, the focus on arts that usually gets forgotten in the heat of discussions on blackness and inclusion and the rich and important resources of the library, all made this so meaningful and different.”

“(this) provided a group of artists and producers coming from all around Europe not only to collectively reflect on representation, diversity and inclusion but also to individually question our relation to the realities of blackness and whiteness. It offered a creative introspection which is needed to shift our mind-sets and therefore to impulse change in our perimeters of actions and power. I left these two days of workshop feeling that I had started a personal journey, as much as a collective one.”

Read more about the research project: FutureBrownSpace

Read more about the Seminar serie: A Season of Black study