Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024
Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024 is the second iteration of this three-year project. In 2024, we welcome 15 Global Fellows from Africa, Arab world, Asia, and South America within an expanded 18-day programme.
Stains of Oxus (2016)
Conversation on the trajectory of tradition and landscape and screening of Stains of Oxus (2016).
Her Right (2020) & Chillahona (2022)
Conversation on the trajectories of female universe and colonialism and screenings of Her Right (2020) and Chillahona (2022).
The Haunted (2017)
Conversation on the trajectory of living with the non-human and screening of The Haunted (2017).
Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea (2004)
Conversation on the trajectory of ecology and water mismanagement and screening of Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea (2004).
Per°Form Open Academy Closing Keynote: Unearthing the Archive by Saodat Ismailova
Closing Keynote by award-winning Uzbek filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova.
Commune Banquet + Closing Q&A
Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations ends a glorious 15-hour marathon, with a rewarding feast. A meal welcomes us as our first and only intermission for the day.
Ujjwala Maharjan - My Story is Yours As Well, and If I Listen, I Can Hear Your Voice in Mine
Weaving poetry and songs from her collaborative feminist music project, Ujjwala invites you into a journey through the legacy of women.
Etcétera - Errare Humanum Est (To Err is Human)
From the struggle for human rights to the defence of the rights of nature and other species, an adventure for the decolonization of planet Earth and the future of other planets.
Sunday Obiajulu Ozegbe (Valu) - Dance as the Catalyst
This presentation will be sharing the artist’s unique approach to artistic activism, while making a case for why dance can be a solid tool for change locally and globally.
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi - The Body and Resistance
Drawing from their extensive body of work, Selma and Sofiane discuss the stages and strategies of the body/bodies as a powerful vessel for creative, political and social action.
Marianne Fahmy - Textual Archeology: Unearthing Stories in Ruins
Drawing inspiration from archaeological methods, literature, and creative writing techniques, embarkment into an imaginative journey exploring the intersection of text and ruins.
Hira Nabi - All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (2019)
This film looks at the bodies, lives (and afterlives) and livelihoods entangled within the shipbreaking industry, and asks us to consider its costs, and to assign culpability.
YoNoFui - A Performative Plea
This plea attempts a different movement. We use “plea” to make it our own and dynamise its meaning.
Aziz Sohail - Queer South Asian Dreaming and Kin-Making Through the Curatorial
Aziz presents three projects “In Search of Baba Singh” (2019), “Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas” (2022) and “The World that Belongs to Us” (2023)
Radhika Hettiarachchi - Body/Memory
Giving space to create a new language for Body/Memory locked within ourselves and hidden away by cultural norms or fear of repression allows for the “telling of stories” on our own terms.
Diamantina Arcoiris - Fashion With a Cause: Restoration Through Love
Diamantina Arcoiris shares the journey and experiences of working with the individuals whose silences, self-doubt, shame, rejection and hopeless are re-fashioned.
Chathuri Nissansala - This Land is Not Mine, Mother
Chathuri invokes and harnesses a cross disciplinary performative language of speculative reclamation.
Sharareh Bajracharya - Silences That Dissolve Into Tastes — Learning to Listen to Each Other’s Stories Through Art Education
We search for our silences, and subsequently create pathways in the field of art education in Nepal. We develop a taste for different ways of telling stories, listening, and sometimes magic happens.
Radhika Hettiarachchi - Performing Coloniality: The Socio-Cultural Mindset and Sex/Work
In this presentation documenting lived experiences in Sri Lanka, we explore how ‘performing coloniality’ impacts the everyday lives of women sex workers today.
Aziz Sohail - Entangled Pasts and Futures: Archival Knowledge as a Productive Site
Investigating archival knowledges as a productive site from which to think of curating and exhibition-making and considering the possibility of archive as an imagination and a space of feminist and queer worldmaking.
Marianne Fahmy - When the Sea Level Rises: Hypothesis for an Imagined Future
Marianne shares her ways of imagining a future to come for a city that is threatened by the rise of the sea level.
Per°Form Open Academy Marathon
Central to the Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations is the marathon. A relaxed and casual urban picnic set in 72-13.
Diamantina Arcoiris - Ocupa Acción (Take Action)
The act of creating is a process of healing. When the mind is focused on creating and the energy is dedicated to developing ideas, the intention and conscious action of creating helps to reduce anxiety and discover a new line of personal and collective self-healing.
Sharareh Bajracharya - Moving With Sanu
Stories told through images, text, and with our bodies, to enact children's stories of strength even when facing what seem like insurmountable situations.
Sunday Obiajulu Ozegbe (Valu) - Lagos Rhythm
In Lagos we dance like what we have been through — an introductory dance jam session to contemporary street dance in Nigeria widely known as “Naija Fusion”.
Etcétera - Error Never Fails: A No-Work No-Shop
A de-educational experience where our errors become a source of inspiration to act, to create without the fear of producing failures or making mistakes.
Per°Form Open Academy Workshops
Join us in these experiential workshops, intimate gatherings created to enable deeper connections with the works and processes of the Fellows.
Browse our Fellows’ workshops here, and book your slots today.
Ujjwala Maharjan - The Women That Make Us — A Gathering Session
What stories/lessons have you inherited from the women in your lives — mothers, grandmas, great grandmas, literary ancestors —that wait to flow through you? Re-membering ritual, and writing, with (the photographs of) these women.
YoNoFui - Other Ways of Coexisting. Imaginaries on Alternative Justices.
Discussion and development around the forms of coexistence with Justices and their punishment practices: How do we create other ways of coexisting? What other justices can we create? How do we create spaces of resistance to the micro-punitivisms that inhabit our societies?
Per°Form Open Academy Opening Keynotes: Redesigning Ourselves by Diamantina Arcoiris & How to Love a Tree by Hira Nabi
Two Opening Keynotes focusing on self-care and our sustainable relationship with nature - Redesigning Ourselves with fashion designer Diamantina Arcoiris (Bogatá) and How to Love a Tree by filmmaker and visual artist Hira Nabi (Lahore/Amsterdam).