Reading Group
Play, Pleasure and Healing
Connected within that Light: Reading/Theory Group Series with Kathy-Ann Tan
This reading group series is entitled Play, Pleasure and Healing. In this first of three sessions, we will collaboratively read and discuss texts by Audre Lorde to reflect on works by the artists Loni Johnson and Donna Kukama.
To kick off the first of three sessions on “Play, Pleasure and Healing”, we will invoke the deeply affective words of Audre Lorde by reading excerpts from her posthumous collection, Your Silence Will Not Protect You (2017). We will use Lorde’s meditations on the power of the erotic, pleasure, care and transformative justice to reflect on the alter-making ritualistic practices or “remnants” of artist Loni Johnson and the work of South African artist Donna Kukama, in particular her ongoing serial performance research project, The History Book.
Text
Audre Lorde: Your Silence Will Not Protect You, 2017
The sessions will be led in English but discussion in German is welcomed. Texts will be circulated in advance after registration closes.
Encompassing topics such as intersectional feminism, the agency of bodies, colonialism and the nature of care, the reading/theory group Connected within that Light loosely complements the Gropius Bau’s exhibition programme in 2022. Sessions are facilitated by Berlin-based independent curator, writer and scholar Kathy-Ann Tan.
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