December 9th, 7 – 9 PM
In-person, Live Art Development Agency (London)
Free, but please BOOK HERE
“When I think of entanglement, I think of how ideas are smuggled across borders; their smuggling makes both the violent border politics and the forms of resistance that refuse them palpable. I think about relations, binds, networks, flight paths and surprising solidarities – many of these gathered in this iteration of the journal.” Diana Damian Martin, Foreword, Entangled Practices: Embodying Cross-Border Live Art
Join performingborders for a launch of Entangled Practices: Embodying cross-border live art in its new limited-edition print format. Come for an evening of discussion, reading-out, listening, and sharings from setareh fatehi and Fehras Publishing Practices, contributors to the project who will be joining digitally.
Entangled Practicesis performingborders’ third e-journal, initially published online and now available in print. In this publication an expanded horizon of shared methodologies comes into view – rooted in territories, struggles, and ecologies where the dynamics of resistance, collaboration, and organising offer new possibilities for creative approaches. This evening is a rare opportunity to engage with live artists whose practice in cross-border collaboration, digitality, and archives challenges the dominant narratives and envisions new forms of solidarity and survival.
setareh fatehi will share from their commission ‘parallaxing (i): a story of a practice’, a new hybrid-digital approach questioning the demands for physical presence and reflecting on what it means to be, think from, and exist in many places at once. Fehras Publishing Practices will share from their commission ‘Love Letters to Our Comrades’. Exploring relationships across time and the way internationalist practices of solidarity can be found in the archive, this commission includes a precious look at LOTUS: Afro-Asian Writings, the quarterly review of the Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers Association.
The space will be hosted by performingborders and Diana Damian Martin, co-editor of the journal.
Attendees will receive a free copy of the print version of the journal and can enjoy a warm dinner and drinks on the night, all free.
This event is presented by performingborders in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency.
About the e-journal –
Entangled Practices: Embodying Cross-Border Live Art, digital-version of the e-journal here.Originally published digitally in September 2024, printed for the first time in November 2024. This publication features contributions from: Diana Damian Martin, setareh fatehi, Tanja Ostojć, Moviendo Territorios, Rodolfo Suárez & Giulia Palladini, Fehras Publishing Practices. Limited copies of the printed version of Entangled Practices will be available for free at LADA from 9th December 2024.
If you can’t join us but would like to stock some of our free pamphlets, performingborders is looking for libraries, artist spaces, bookshops, community and social centres where we might be able to place copies of Entangled Practices. If you can think of a place please let us know at performingborderslive@gmail.com!
Supported by: Necessity Fund, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Arts Council England.
Bios:
performingborders is a collectively run, migrant-led platform for artistic research and creation, centred on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders through live art and performance practices. performingborders is a knowledge-sharing platform created in dialogue with its contributors. Since 2016 performingborders has woven a digital and live tapestry of interconnected, cross-border experiments through interviews, artist commissions, open calls, publications, residencies, workshops, conversations, events, newsletters, and pamphlets – all freely accessible online. performingborders.live
setareh fatehi (او) is an artist-researcher NoT based in Tehran or London. setareh looks at the formation of trans-local collaborative bodies among ‘distanced’ localities by conducting the practice of Parallaxing (i). This practice explores the ethics of hosting remote bodies that are dealing with the debilitating effect of limiting the notion of ‘presence’ to its colonial definition where the differences between (i) and the other was used to legitimise the existence of the borders that have been brutally separating them. setareh has finished her MA in choreography at the Amsterdam School for the Arts and is currently a PhD candidate for the collaborative doctoral award offered by RCSSD and performingborders. @settorefattehi
Fehras Publishing Practices was co-established in 2015 in Berlin. We are a cultural workers collective holding emotional capital, grandmother’s wisdom and loyalty to our ancestors. Our work engages in various participatory methods and artistic productions, focusing on the relationship between publishing and history-making. We examine the role of publishing as a tool to combat cultural domination, as well as a means to foster solidarity and deconstruct colonial power. Fehras serves as an observatory for publishing strategies and practices in relation to the geo-political transformations of southwest Asia and North Africa. Fehras Publishing Practices includes Kenan Darwich, Nancy Naser Al Deen, Sama Ahmadi and Sami Rustom. fehraspublishingpractices.org
Diana Damian Martin is a writer, artist and researcher interested in border-work as a mode of exploring new political formations and anti-colonial imaginaries, be they through critical, political or artistic acts, feminist and queer modes of exchange and experimental cultures of critique, publishing and reflection. She co-hosts the collective Something Other, and the Serbo-Romanian critical cooperative Critical Interruptions, is a member of artistic research committee Generative Constraints and a founding member of Migrants in Culture. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she leads the BA Hons Experimental Arts and Performance course.
Access info
LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms.
Should you have any particular access requirements, please email info@thisisliveart.co.uk and we will be happy to offer further support.
Image credit: Photo by setareh fatehi