This Tueday, 22nd July is the second session in this public lecture series toward Matike Mai, hosted by the Pākehā collective of The Tīpuna Project @ Audio Foundation
With;
Mikaere Berryman-Kamp (Te Arawa)
Eva Maria Ghannam (Lebanon)
Dr Rachel Jane Liebert (Irish Gaelic, Ulster Scot, English, German)
Holli McEntegart (Ireland, Scotland, England)
The doors open at 6pm! ???? in bio to register
This is an experimental, multi-sensorial space and therefore we ask that folx arrive promptly for 6pm and let you know kindly that there will be no entry after 6:15pm. Though of course, you may exit at any time.
In these times of fascism and ongoing genocide – with their intensified sense of urgency, scarcity and fear – both university and activist spaces are increasingly inhospitable to anticolonial forms of knowing – whether embodied, inspirited or more-than-human.. With this public lecture series we experiment with something other-wise, something awkward.
Beginning at Matariki, we will gather for six months around the new moon to respond to a call by Nigerian post-activist Bayo Akomolafe that these times require us to move not simply forward or backward. Join us, our ancestors and the darkness as we co-host local speakers and other performers to instead help us collectively listen for/to/with the awkward: ancestors, grief, spirit, wonder, love, land(back).
How does settler colonialism dismiss, distort, deport, detain, denigrate, demand these otherworldly wisdoms, and what might their awkward stance and dance suggest for our decolonial movements in Aotearoa and beyond?
*This series is inspired by global ‘anti-university’ and ‘free university’ movements that seek to create public spaces for the radical potential of academia to be realised.
*Matike Mai is a nationwide Indigenous-led movement for a Te Tiriti-based constitution – fuck yes!
*The Tīpuna Project is a creative community-based collaboration between Māori and Pākehā activists, artists and academics to experiment with the decolonial possibilities of communing with ancestors.