In Magic of the Mundane, artist Robin Frohardt traces the development of her multidisciplinary practices. From puppet shows to short films and immersive theater, Frohardt discusses how she uses mundane concepts and discarded materials to formulate complex ideas, imbuing the trappings of late-capitalism with playfulness and magic. She also shares the role of humor in […]
Molemo Moiloa discusses the notion of becoming ungovernable in an effort to tap into our capacities to form new worlds in times of collapse. She shares her interdisciplinary contemporary practice, which centers on land justice and heritage restitution, anchored in South Africa’s histories of resistance and world-building. The talk discusses developing strategies for collective and […]
Unsettled is a lecture performance by scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and her attempts to reconstruct her mother’s past. The town of Varosha on the eastern coast of Cyprus, where Nicolaou’s mother is from, was fenced off by the occupying Turkish military for 46 years. […]