ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE VISUAL ARTS

Saturday 11 November 2023

10:00am GMT - Films available to view from this time

11:00am GMT - Q&A with Fabienne Viala, Jean-François Manicom and Pawlet Brookes.

System of Systems

Directors

Fabienne Viala and Jean-François Manicom

Time 22 minutes

This film is available in English, French and Spanish

In a world of climatic and social chaos, the protagonist, a woman in her 40s with Caribbean origins, looks back at her past and reflects on her future. She feels that the lifelong struggle for racial and gender equality in which she embarked since a young age might have made her miss the urgency of climatic justice when it was still time to avoid the worst.

M ap repoze m (I am resting)

Photography and videography

In collaboration with, performed and spoken word

Commissioner

Lauryn Pinard

Latisha César and Holly Francis

Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage

M ap repoze m (I am resting) is a series of photographs and short films exploring the concept of rest as creative practice, alongside the body as an archive featuring a cast of Black women. Drawing from the imagery of Haitian, lwa ezili and the work of Tricia Hersey (the nap ministry), the project locates Black women in decaying sites of colonial power, placing commodified bodies alongside commodified natural materials.

The work invites you to pause and contemplate while imagining alternative ways of being beyond colonial constructs. You are invited within their space. In their own time. At their own pace. In their own terms.

TICKET: £25