Workshop Becoming dragonfish to survive

“becoming dragonfish to survive” is a workshop in which participants create notebooks of care and of their own intimate cosmologies. At the end of the workshop, these can be given or send as gifts to a loved one – such as a friend or partner – who is currently going through a difficult time.

The workshop is inspired by the striking sketchbook “A Female Landscape”, which the artist Mildred Thompson created in 1977 for the poet and activist Audre Lorde after Lorde was first diagnosed with cancer. Both women were black American lesbian artists living in Germany (Lorde famously so).

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Nomaduma Rosa Masilela is an artist, writer, and curator engaged in collective work and strategy; ludic play; the related and respective ephemera of exile and xenophobia; ideas of the uncanny, the absurd, and the dissonant; and the ambivalent natures of authenticity, history and identity production, particularly from African and diasporic perspectives. Organizes these ideas in prints, publications, objects, gatherings, exhibitions, site specific interventions, and long-term research projects. Was born in Bochum, raised between Łódź and Los Angeles, educated in New York and Dakar, based in Berlin, and dreaming of Johannesburg.

Wassan Ali is an archive activist affiliated with the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive. She organizes workshops that explore intersectional histories in the archive and their impact on the present, in part through the release of the zine Writing the Archive. At Humboldt University in Berlin, Wassan Ali is associated with the research project “Queer Theory in Transit,” where she examines traces of queerness in lesbian magazines. Ali has contributed to the essay collection Nicht die Ersten: Bewegungsgeschichten von Queers of Color in Deutschland (ed. Tarek Shukrallah), writing about archiving from an intersectional perspective, and also written about Gillian Rose and digestion in the hand-bound book The Roses in Constellation (ed. Rachel Pafe).

Diese Veranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache mit deutscher Übersetzung stattfinden. 
This event will be held in English with German translation.