CEED Feminisms 3: Labour, diasporic experience and 'East' to 'West' migration

11 Nov 2023 3-6pm

Overview

Please join us for the third CEED Feminisms session, a screening and discussion of performance and moving image works by feminist artists Sanja Iveković, Tanja Ostojić, Darija Radaković and Selma Selman, addressing labour, diasporic experience and 'East' to 'West' European migration.

Artworks are the texts for this special reading group session, the first half of which brings together 75-minutes of artist film and performance documentation, featuring Iveković’s film The Invisible Women of Erste Campus (2016), and performances including Selman’s Mercedes Matrix (2020), Ostojić's Mis(s)placed Women? Dedicated to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada (2016) and Radaković's Misplaced Woman (2015).

In the second half of the session, a group discussion grounded in the artists’ works, moderated by feminist curator and scholar Dr. Lina Džuverović, will consider migration as a response to the uneven social and economic impacts of post socialist transitions to neoliberalism in Central Eastern Europe, or to conflict in the region; embodied experiences of labour and the circulation of goods and value; and solidarity with all displaced womxn as a response to attempts, particularly in Western Europe and North America, to control and weaponise gendered and racialised migrant and indigenous bodies. More information about the artworks is available here.

Creating spaces of mutual support, curiosity and learning, CEED Feminisms responds to cultural blind spots around prejudice and xenophobia in the UK towards the 'Eastern European' immigrant, bringing together a network of practitioners based in and beyond the UK and Central Eastern Europe. Find out more about the programme here.

For full details about access follow the link here. If you would like to discuss your access needs or request support via our access and mobility budget, which can support childcare and travel for a limited number of participants who live outside of London, please contact Jessie Krish: jessie [at] cellprojects [dot] org.

Curator Jessie Krish

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