Methodologies of Resistance
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1Lecture Hall (Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin)
Join us for Methodologies of Resistance, a film screening and discussion with artists Jumana Manna and Marwa Arsanios.
Jumana Manna will show a fragment of Foragers, her 2022 film that depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defenses, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law.
Marwa Arsanios will show a fragment of her ongoing film series Who is Afraid of Ideology? (2017-). The series weaves an intersectional path through the resistance of women on the frontline in places such as Northern Syria and Colombia to claim the unmediated right to land and water. Its key themes include ecofeminism, ownership, healing, state control, autonomy, collectivity, indigenous struggle, seed protection, and land rights.
The film screening will be accompanied by a discussion with the artists and a Q&A moderated by BCB faculty Agata Lisiak.
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruly potential of ruination as an integral part of life and its regeneration. She has participated in multiple festivals and exhibitions, Berlinale, IFFR, Vision du reel, MoMA PS1, New York, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California; Marrakech Biennale 6; Mercer Union, Toronto; and The Nordic Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, among others. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher from Beirut. Her work reconsiders mid-twentieth-century politics from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, spatial practices, and land struggles, looking at histories of resistances in their contemporary resonance. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Arsanios has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions at Documenta 15 (2022), Berlin Biennale (2020), Warsaw Biennial (2019), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennial (2018), Luleå Biennial (2018), among many other places.
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