Complex Complicities - towards antiracist feminist stages | Symposium
Schedule
Mon May 30 2022 at 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Location
Mdt | Stockholm, ST
Complex Complicities - Towards antiracist feminist stages! WHEN & WHERE?
Dates: 30-31 May 2022, 13:00 – 17:00 on both days
Place: MDT studio 2
Address: Slupskjulsvägen 30 11149 Stockholm
To attend please fill out this google form. Please wait for a confirmation:
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WHAT?
Complex Complicities - towards antiracist feminist stages is a 2 day symposium collaboratively organised by UrbanApa, a Helsinki-based antiracist and feminist arts community, and MDT.
Complex complicities is a small step towards creating and furthering Nordic discourse about antiracist and feminist practices in Nordic contemporary stages.
Amongst other things, the symposium asks: How do we change things?
HOW TO REGISTER?
The symposium is free and open to the public.
To attend please fill out this google form:
https://forms.gle/j9ziFovqjMvYcR13A
Please wait for a confirmation.
PROGRAM
Creating long lasting structural change is hard. In order to build towards a discrimination free, diverse, safer and more sustainable Nordic art field we find that we need to talk about power, responsibility, representation, the politics of curating and audiences, amongst other things.
The two-day symposium consists of keynotes, panel discussions and workshops that approach these topics and more.
On the two days we will hear from:
Yolanda Bohm, John-Paul Zaccarini, Ulrika Flink, Saadia Hussain, Marit Shrin Carolasdotter, Anna Adeniji, Samuel Girma, Ashik Zaman, Lydia Östberg Diakite and Valerie Kyeyune Backström, with workshops facilitated by Sonya Lindfors, Julian Owusu, Mmabatho Thobejane and Anna Efraimsson.
DAY 1:
Monday, 30 May 2022
13:00 – 17:00
MDT Studio 2
13:00 Welcome Remarks
13:15 Keynote by Yolanda Bohm
13:55 – 14:15 BREAK
14:15 – 15:30 Panel discussion – Intersectionality in Practice – Towards antiracist feminist horizons?
Moderated by John-Paul Zaccarini and with participants Ulrika Flink, Saadia Hussain & Marit Shrin Carolasdotter. This panel approaches the multiple and dynamic definitions and applications of intersectionality in the Swedish context. The discussion, amongst other things, explores the successes, hurdles and possibilities of intersectionality in artistic and institutional practices and spaces.
Moderated by John-Paul Zaccarini
Panelists: Ulrika Flink, Saadia Hussain & Marit Shrin Carolasdotter
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45 – 16:45 Small group discussions – Towards Antiracist Feminist Horizons?
In this part of the symposium, we invite participation through small groups discussions. Here, participants will be led through conversations that expand on the keynote and the panel discussion of the day. The topic of these discussions is ‘Towards antiracist feminist horizons?’ and will be facilitated by Mmabatho Thobejane, Sonya Lindfors, Julian Owusu and Anna Efraimsson.
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye.
DAY 2:
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
13:00 – 17:00
MDT Studio 2
13:00 Welcome Remarks
13:15 Keynote by Anna Adeniji – How Do We Recognize Change?
This keynote addresses change work from different levels: Change in institutions, in representation, in methods, as well as the continuous work of decolonizing the mind. Is change resistance or is it a flow? May we become complicit in resisting change in order to survive a precarious work situation? Is it even possible to change the system with “the master’s tool”, to quote Audre Lourde, and if we try, what will it cost? And last, how do we recognize change even when we are in its midst? Are we allowed to change our minds in the middle of a struggle, change direction or even rest?
13:55 – 14:15 BREAK
14:15 – 15:30 Panel discussion – Love and Critique
Day 2’s panel discussion is moderated by Samuel Girma and the participants are Ashik Zaman, Lydia Östberg Diakité & TBC. This panel underlines critique and its function in the ecology of culture. The panel approaches questioning, criticism and feedback. We are interested in contemporary ideas around criticism and the friction therein. Amongst other things, the panel asks contemporarily, can we understand and enact critique and feedback as acts of care and love?
Moderated by Samuel Girma
Panelists: Ashik Zaman, Lydia Östberg Diakité & Valerie Kyeyune Backström
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45 – 16:45 Small group discussions – Reimagining Institutions.
In this part of the symposium, we invite participation through small group discussions. Here, participants will be led through conversations that expand on the keynote and the panel discussion of the day. The topic of these discussions is ‘Reimagining Institutions’ and will be facilitated by Mmabatho Thobejane, Sonya Lindfors, Julian Owusu and Anna Efraimsson.
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye.
SAFETY
Welcome to MDT!
We are working towards making MDT the safest space it can be for all artists, audiences, visitors and staff. This work is ongoing, never finished, and MDT will always be open and responsive to challenge, change, and development of our policies and guidelines.
MDT positively encourages open discussion and debate, but we will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or hate speech in any form. We see the two as different, and reserve the right to intervene in any conversation or discussion where we feel as though discrimination, harassment or hate speech is being enacted.
By law, when we talk about discrimination we are referring to a set of protected characteristics which include age, disability, gender/ sex expression, marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and to this list we add class and educational background.
MDT actively requires everyone onsite, including all artists, audiences, visitors and staff, to show respect and courtesy to everyone we meet and work with at all times. If you have any questions or feel unsafe at any point, please speak to a member of MDT staff, or email: [email protected].
ACCESSIBILITY
All of our toilets are gender neutral. We have accessible toilets on floors one and two, and a lift to all floors. We operate a policy of reasonable adjustment and will endeavour to meet any access requirements communicated to us within a reasonable timeframe, just email us: [email protected].
For full access information and to read our work environment, equality, and safety issues policy visit our website: www.mdtsthlm.se/about-mdt/visit-us
We always welcome feedback about your experience at MDT: [email protected].
SUPPORTED BY
Complex complicities is a part of BRIDGES, a project designed to strengthen sustainable and long term Nordic collaboration in the realms of antiracist and intersectionally feminist practices. The project is funded by Nordic Culture Point and is produced by UrbanApa arts platform based in Helsinki. The project is initiated by Sonya Lindfors, Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and founder of UrbanApa. Complex Complicities at MDT is also supported by The dance department at Stockholm University of the Arts.
more info:
www.urbanapa.fi
https://mdtsthlm.se/
Photo: Monica Silvestre
Where is it happening?
Mdt, Slupsjulsvägen 30,Stockholm, Sweden