Kafkรกrna/ Centre for Arts & Ecology UMPRUM cordially invites you to an artist talk and workshop with our special guest, British artist Sophie Seita!ย
โ๐ถ๐ช๐ด๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฝ๐ผ, ๐ถ๐ช๐ด๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐น๐ต๐ฒ๐ช๐ซ๐ต๐ฎ / ๐ฌ๐ป๐ธ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ๐ผ'
April 16, 2025, 4pm (Kafkรกrna)
In this artist talk, Visiting Artist and Researcher Sophie Seita will speak about her wide-ranging practice; in particular her performances, lecture performances, collaborative projects, and research around queer ecology, more-than-human collaborations, forgotten feminist histories, experimental pedagogy, and somatic practice. The talk will feature past, present, and possible members of a secret society dedicated to gardening, gossip, and lesbian companionship; it will also encounter ears of corn as an invitation to rethink reproduction and kinship and to see biology as malleable; it will finger or throw some imaginary rocks to ask poetic, geophilosophical and geo-political questions about time, embedded histories, and intimacy; and the talk will also get messy with compost as material and metaphor for intergenerational queer learning and cross-species collaborationโwith an eye to how these materials, languages, and practices might pivot our understanding of eco-literacy, a new project the artist is currently developing with Youngsook Choi.
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โ๐น๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฝ-๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ, ๐๐ช๐ฟ๐ฎ-๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ, ๐ป๐ธ๐ฌ๐ด-๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ: ๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ฎย
๐ถ๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ๐ ๐น๐ป๐ธ๐น๐ธ๐ผ๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ป ๐ฑ. ๐ช๐ท๐ญ๐ผ-๐ธ๐ท ๐ต๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐโ
April 17, 2025, 10amโ1pm (Kafkarna)
How do we listen with our hands? Do our feet have ears or lungs? Can a leaf or stalk or pebble become an extension of our body? This workshop aspires to test out some poetic and performative propositions in situ on the grounds of Kafkarna, responding to its specific spatial, temporal, emotional weather. We will follow some simple listening prompts and performance scores as forms of attunement to our own bodies, each other, and the environment we find ourselves in, and we will then develop our own. We will perform โthinking-in-movementโ (Maxine Sheets-Johnstone); we will gather materials and consider gathering a form of collective authorship (as Mindy Seu proposes), and we will develop a new lexicon for the landscapes (both inside and outside) thus gathered. The workshop will draw on insights from sensory ethnography, queer studies, disability studies, and performance studies, emphasising touch, play, curiosity, not-knowing, and situated knowledge.
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