Luminocity: Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman

Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva

After breaking through the glassy, formal fixed walls of the Understanding, released from the grip of certainty, the imagination may wonder about reassembling the fundamental components of everything to refigure ...

Correspondence between Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman Introduced by Steffanie Ling

Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy // April 3–May 18, 2019

4 Waters: Deep Implicancy (Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, Turkey/Greece, Haiti, Australia, Marshall Islands, 2018, 29 minutes) What would a world and an ethics look like free from the d

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Gallery TPW, Toronto, March 9 to April 20, 2019

“Serpent Rain”

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UNPAYABLE DEBT: Poethical Reading 0:00:05 SOOTH BREATH / Corpus Infinitum: Film Discussion 1:27:58 The Film can be found here: https://youtu.be/yvw91UKa8Jo?t=8035 Does it help if time-space continuum collapses into a future tense? What if we will have ended racial subjugation and violence? What if we will have navigated the complexity of existence? We will have experimented in living with complexity. We will have unsettled realities. We will have reimagined how things and being can be otherwise. A day of encounterings and collective reflections with artist and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva & guests invites to speculative exercises on the im/possibility of global/racial un/justice. Three acts – an ENHANCED CONVERSATION with Berlin based activist groups, a black feminist POETHICAL READING, a FILM SCREENING & TALK – unfold and explore political-aesthetical strategies in times of severe, of disruptive crisis. UNPAYABLE DEBT   offers a black feminist “poethical” reading of the political architecture of the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported from 1970s Los Angeles to the antebellum South to save the life of the child of a slave-owner who is also her ancestor, the concept of the unpayable debt – a debt someone owes but that is not hers to pay – relates post-Enlightenment versions of ethical and economic value to colonial and racial subjugation. Focusing on the philosophical basis of these renderings of value, Denise Ferreira da Silva exposes how coloniality and raciality operate in the juridical, ethical, and symbolic systems that facilitate the expropriation of labor and extraction of land essential for the accumulation of Capital. SOOTH BREATH / Corpus Infinitum is a film by artist Arjuna Neuman and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva dedicated to tenderness and repair. It is about reimagining knowledge and existence without the limits of European and Colonial constructions of the human. To speculate how to live otherwise as humans in the world, The film crosses disciplines, calling on quantum mechanics to polyrhythms, from Tarkovsky to Hype Williams, from heat to Anaximander. It explores how social subjects, identities and categories are formed and recreated in society – in particular, how these processes have been designed as sovereign and independent from the body. DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA is a philosopher and Director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her academic writing and artistic practice address the ethico-political challenges of the global present. Among her publications are Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007) and A Dívida Impagavel (Unpayable Debt, 2019), texts for the Liverpool and São Paulo Biennials (2016), Biennale di Venezia (2017) and documenta 14. She has exhibited and lectured at major art venues, such as Centre Pompidue, White Chapel Gallery (London), Moma and Guggenheim (New York). Her artistic works include the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4 Waters-Deep Impliancy (2018) and Sooth Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020), all in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman. With Valentina Desideri she developed the relational practice of "Poethical Readings” as a device for augmenting sensemaking tools and unsettling realitities. A COOPERATION  of SAVVY Contemporary, the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script – SCRIPTS" – as part of the SCRIPTS series "The Liberal Script in Critical Perspective", and the research and teaching area Theory of Politics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

BCRW’s newest working group, Practicing Refusal: Thinking Beyond Resistance, kicks off with a public lecture by distinguished ethicist and feminist theorist, Denise Ferreira da Silva. Her talk engages what she sees as the fundamental challenge posed by black feminism: the questioning of a feminist critical grammar that re-produces any ‘proper’ apprehension of the female/the feminine and exposing the limits of what constitutes a ‘proper subject’. Her presentation aims to dissolve what she calls the patriarchal form of the subject. Refusing gender as the only critical tool for describing females’ socio-historical trajectories, Ferreira da Silva extends Hortense Spillers’ reconfiguration of ‘woman’, the female and the feminine, in ways that dis/order of the modern grammar of the patriarch. Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor at the Institute for Research on Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race. Recorded October 22, 2015 at Barnard College. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/H1g6/

Talk: Denise Ferreira Da Silva Program presented on 14 December 2019 at the Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human. The philosopher and artist-theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva speaks on her film presented in “Cosmopolis #2”, 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy, made in collaboration with filmmaker Arjuna Neuman.