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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?