Photo: Bradly Dever Treadaway
Why is rest a necessity in decolonial work?
Monday 28 August at 8 pm CEST Kunsthall Trondheim and OI! delve into the topic of rest and social justice in an online conversation with the collective Repose as Resistance.
Join in the conversation via ZOOM here!
Repose as Resistance is a practice based collective of cultural workers of African descent living in Europe.
In this online group conversation, they will discuss how facilitating cultural change for social justice is done from a position of marginalization, which again is a space of stress and unrest.
The collective seeks acknowledgement of rest as imperative to secure that social change can sustain itself beyond conflictual frame works. The conversation on 28 August will revolve around subjective colonial effects within a European context and the need for a restful repositioning of decolonial social change.
We hope to hear your voice in the discussion!
Welcome < 3
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About Repose as Resistance:
An organism bearing a culture of rest within it.
A social structure that carry values of rest into high-performance based labor cultures that undermine rest.
An actor for decolonial thinking and storytelling.
A developer of restful practices.
An excavator of European colonial effects.
Members of Repose as Resistance collective:
Carl Martin Faurby Program Curator, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi Member of Picha and Lubumbashi Biennial, Lubumbashi, Congo/Belgium
Mawena Yehouessi Founder Black(s) to the Future, Paris, France
Lisa Anderson Director of Black Cultural Archives, London, UK
Justin Randolph Thompson Artist & Co-Director, The Recovery Plan, Florence, Italy
Janine Gaëlle Dieudji Curator & Co-Director, The Recovery Plan, Florence, Italy
Akin Hubbard Founder/Artistic Director DARKMATTER Collective and Assistant Professor of Arts and Society at Utrect University.
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About OI!
Oi! is a project for young people of colour who are interesting in telling their own story. Oi! was initiated by the artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa for the Bergen Assembly exhibition in 2019. Now, Oi! is coming to Trondheim. Read more about the project and how to participate below.
Oi! brings together people between the ages of 19 and 25 who have experienced racism. The project provides them with a platform to meet and discuss issues that are important to them on their own terms. Out of these discussions, the group develops public projects that address issues of social and environmental justice.