Cinema as Assembly
Cinema as Assembly investigates cinema as a space of social gathering and political engagement that prefigures and enacts forms of living beyond colonial capitalism.
Cinbema as Assembly is committed to processes of filmmaking and circulation rooted in forms of indigenous and post-capitalist visual sovereignty and autonomy, and in decolonial and non-Eurocentric cosmovisions and to supporting constituencies in the global South that have been systematically marginalised and exploited by settler states and the forces of extractive capitalism. At the same time, it sees cinema as a space of solidarity at the planetary level, around intersectional indigenous, black, feminist and working-class struggles.
Particularly, the project sees cinema as a space of:
- Collective construction of counter-histories and alternative memories.
- Connection between assemblies located in different political geographies
- Transgenerational solidarity
- Imagination and prefiguration of the future
- Knowledge production and conservation
- Ecological and material intervention
Cinema as Assembly combines the activation of local projects and the collective reflection on the political potential of cinema, in developing imaginaries and practices of ecological, economic, and social justice.
Working group: Natalia Arcos, Ariella Azoulay, Filipa César, Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain – MTL Collective, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Chema Gonzalez, Jasmina Metwaly, Massimiliano Mollona, Amilcar Paker, Zeyno Pekünlu, Elizabeth Povinelli, Philip Rikz , Maya Scherr-Willson, Nancy Wachowich
Related activities
The Soils Project
The Soils Project, is part of the eponymous, long term research initiative involving Tarrawara Museum of Art, Wurundjeri Country, Australia, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It works through specific and situated practices that consider soil, as both metaphor and matter. A further iteration of the project will open at the Van Abbemuseum in May - September 2024 as part of Museum of the Commons.
The Soils Project has been in development since 2018. An international collaboration between three organisations, and several artists, curators, writers and activists, the project has manifested in various iterations over several years including a three-part public webinar series titled The Soils Project: groundwork, and a two-week workshop, titled The Soils Project: On Country, for participating curators and artists. With a curatorium comprising arts workers from TarraWarra Museum of Art, the Van Abbemuseum, and Struggles for Sovereignty, the project’s approach seeks and facilitates opportunities to listen to diverse voices and perspectives around notions of caring for land, soil and sovereign territories.
Developed from this journey, The Soils Project’s forthcoming exhibition will embrace the deep histories of each participant’s location, examining the multiplicity of landscapes and environments, and the impact of colonisations and global industries on cultural heritage, land management and traditional knowledges.
Kyiv Biennial 2023
L’Internationale Confederation is a proud partner of this year’s edition of Kyiv Biennial.
Where are the Oases?
PEI OBERT seminar
with Kader Attia, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Emily Jacir, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Françoise Vergès
An oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.
Anti-imperialism in the 20th century and anti-imperialism today: similarities and differences
PEI OBERT seminar
Lecture by Ramón Grosfoguel
In 1956, countries that were fighting colonialism by freeing themselves from both capitalism and communism dreamed of a third path, one that did not align with or bend to the politics dictated by Washington or Moscow. They held their first conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
School of Commoning Practices
This exchange programme gathers different schools organized by volunteers and migrant communities in Athens (Open School for Migrants) and Madrid (School of Rights, Escuela de Español and Situated mediation School) in order to share their knowledge, exchange strategies and reflect on the experience of working together with migrant communities.
Cinema as Assembly
Cinema as Assembly investigates cinema as a space of social gathering and political engagement that prefigures and enacts forms of living beyond colonial capitalism.
Team of Teams
This project researches citizen participation as a fundamental pillar in the creation of community.
Sustainable Art Production
The Studies Center of Museo Reina Sofía will publish an open call for 4 residencies of artistic practice for projects that address the emergencies and challenges derived from the climate crisis such as food sovereignty, architecture and sustainability, communal practices, diasporas and exiles or ecological and political sustainability, among others.
Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
Recalling Earth: Decoloniality and Demodernity
Course Directors: Prof. Walter Mignolo & Dr. Rolando Vázquez
Recalling Earth and learning worlds and worlds-making will be the topic of chapter 14th of the María Lugones Summer School that will take place at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Red, Green, Black and White
A performative inquiry by Institute of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb
Archive of the Conceptual Art of Odesa in the 1980s
The research project turns to the beginning of 1980s, when conceptual art circle emerged in Odesa, Ukraine. Artists worked independently and in collaborations creating the first examples of performances, paradoxical objects and drawings.
Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school is organised by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana in partnership with ZRC SAZU (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) as part of the L’Internationale project Museum of the Commons.
Open Call – Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school takes place in Ljubljana 24–30 August and the application deadline is 15 March. Courses will be held in English and cover topics such as the legacy of the Eastern European avant-gardes, archives as tools of emancipation, the new “non-aligned” networks, art in times of conflict and war, ecology and the environment.
Song for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation
An ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of MACBA becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening.
Gathering into the Maelstrom
Gathering into the Maelstrom in Venice at Sale Docks is a four-day programme curated by Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) and Sale Docks.
Related contributions
…and the Earth along. Tales about the making, remaking and unmaking of the world.
The Kitchen, an Introduction to Subversive Film with Nick Aikens, Reem Shilleh and Mohanad Yaqubi
The Repressive Tendency within the European Public Sphere
Troubles with the East(s)
Right now, today, we must say that Palestine is the centre of the world
Body Counts, Balancing Acts and the Performativity of Statements
Until Liberation I: Learning Palestine
Until Liberation II: Learning Palestine
Lumbung practices to resist and collaborate through art
Populism. A Dialogue on Art, Representation and Institutions in the Crisis of Democracy
Congresso Internacional Extraordinário dos Críticos de Arte, 1959
Art Museums and Democracy
L'Internationale statement in support of MNCARS
The Veil of Peace
Triángulo Rosa / Pink Triangle
Editorial: Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency
Song for Many Movements. Opening Performance Live on Radio Alhara
We Have Been Here Forever. Palestinian Poets Write Back
Indra's Web
Mix tape: Let's Funk Up All Genders!
Diary of a Crossing
The Silence Has Been Unfolding For Too Long
One Day, Freedom Will Be
Everything will stay the same if we don’t speak up
