CARTE BLANCHE (white marble mistakes)
Workshop and Lecture Performance
with Stefan Pente and Egan Chan
Departing from observations about lineages of the white marble sculpture from antiquity to the renaissance — their influence on representations of whiteness as well as the facilitation of contemporary white supremacist thought and idealised white (male) bodies (co-opted as trophies of the mythical aryan) — we navigate questions surrounding bodies which sit idealised in collective consciousness — the youthful, hetero normative cis and white — and individual bodies with their capabilities, limitations, sensualities etc. shaped and determined by subjectives.
We would like to first introduce our work from Livorno in the form of an artist talk with performative elements. following this we will engage in collective bodily movement practices with the participants to understand the body — ones own as well as a group of bodies as instruments that resonate and are able to speak back to situations that need dissent.
From there we will contemplate the sea as a body which carries history. as a substance, water remembers. for the purposes of this presentation, we would like to focus on how seawater remembers movements of migration, escape and colonial violence. we might go on to approach an understanding of the sea as a primordial body, and therefore postulate that marble — as a 400 million-year-old stone made of shells, corals and other sea sediments — also carries these same violent memories.
Time: to be announced
Held in English
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